About Us

North Peninsula Branch of AAUW - California
(formerly San Bruno Branch AAUW)
History and Activities

    In 1956, the San Bruno Branch of AAUW was established with 32 members from North San Mateo County.  Now, our Branch serves the following cities: Burlingame, Brisbane, Colma, Daly City, Millbrae, San Bruno, and South San Francisco.  All in all, our ninety to a hundred members are most congenial and cooperative. 
    Our monthly General Meetings focus on issues of the day, such as politics (local, state, and national) and local concerns, such as BART, libraries, schools, and health.  Our talented members may perform in dramas and musical programs.  These meetings are open to the general public.
    Since the Educational Foundation (EF) and the Legal Advocacy Foundation (LAF) funds are two of the most important efforts of the American Association of University Women, we hold a variety of fund raisers during the year.  To date, we have provided over $55,000 in gifts, fellowships, and endowments. 
    For example, the branch has completed an endowment for Metta Zahorski, a SF State professor and an endowment in the name of the branch itself, and has helped other branches in California complete their endowments.
    Our Branch participates in community projects, including Public Policy, Tech Trek (sponsoring 7th grade girls to a week in science camp), UNICEF (collected cash from local schools from 1957 until recently), and Women on Writing (WOW) all-day seminars that feature local authors (co-sponsoring with Skyline College).

Important Links

Educational Foundation

    EF advances educational and professional opportunities for women in the United States and the world. It is one of the largest funding sources for graduate women, with 250 fellowships, grants, and special awards to outstanding women in the 2007-2008 academic year.
    Our branch has now completed the Jan Barnhart/Gladys Betts Research and Special Projects Grant (November 2007), in the 50th year of EF.
Message from Phoebe Sandberg, EF Vice President:
    The branch Board is proud to promote the Jesse and Wilder Ellis International Fellowship, founded by Margaret Ellis to honor her parents, who were medical missionaries in Iran for 25 years. The criteria for this fellowship are outstanding academic ability, professional potential, interest in studies of girls and women in her home country, and prior commitment to the advancement of girls and women through civic, community, and/or professional work.
Century Club memberships help fund the Educational Foundation.

Legal Advocacy Fund

    Equity is the legal right of all women and girls. Advocating for women and girls, AAUW LAF frames and fosters factual, in-depth, objective dialogue among legislators and change makers that results in political, institutional and legal support for women's equity in all areas of life and work, such as pay equity and Title IX athlete equity.

Tech Trek - Math/Science Camp for Girls

    Every summer, our branch sponsors two or three local 7th-grade girls for a science and math week at Stanford University. Tech Trek Camp had two sessions for 2008 (the seventh year), July 13 to 19 and July 20 to 26. Eighty girls can attend each.
    Members can also volunteer for staffing, counselor, health aide, or dorm mother.
    Tech Trek has hands-on laboratory activities to develop excitement and confidence. Students eat in college cafeterias, sleep in college dormitories, and use recreational facilities on campus, with field trips to local science institutions. Students meet women teaching and working in science, math, and computers. High school and college girls assist teachers and staff.

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