9110-AAUW Greatest Needs Fund
  • The Greatest Needs Fund is a vital source of unrestricted support that allows AAUW to respond quickly and effectively to emerging challenges and opportunities. When you support the Greatest Needs Fund, you enable AAUW to sustain core operations, advocacy efforts, and program expansion. You support initiatives like economic empowerment programs, voter engagement campaigns, and policy advocacy, ensuring AAUW can amplify its impact, adapt to evolving needs, and continue leading the fight for gender equity. Your contributions to this fund are crucial for AAUW’s agility and long-term sustainability, empowering the organization to drive meaningful change. These funds are carefully managed to maximize impact, ensuring every dollar serves AAUW's mission.
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4513 - Defend Higher Education
  • The Defend Higher Education Fund will enable AAUW to elevate the critical higher education issues impacting women, mobilize advocates across the country, provide strategic resources to students, staff and faculty on campus, and fuel investments in the infrastructure and technology necessary to move our mission forward. Your support ensures AAUW can effectively fight on behalf of women on campuses across the country and ensure that AAUW remains a trusted and powerful voice for equity.
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4514 - Public Policy General
  • The Public Policy Fund is focused on increasing the impact of our Action Network through growing the number of advocates across the country and providing timely, accurate, and actionable information about our key issues. This fund helps equip branches across the country with timely, customized talking points on core policy issues like Title IX, student debt, and pay equity. Support to this fund enables AAUW to reach and energize new advocates—strengthening our collective impact in the fight for gender equity in education and the workplace.
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4518 - Sarah Woodin & David Wethey (CDG)
  • Betsy Brown was nearing the completion of her Ph.D. in Marine Science in 1981 at the College of Marine Studies at the University of Delaware. She applied for an AAUW Career Development Grant (CDG) to provide financial support in her final year of graduate school. She was awarded a CDG that gave her time to focus on her dissertation analyses and writing. Bets became a lifelong member of AAUW (she passed away in June 2026), serving as an officer in local and Maine chapters of AAUW. She was elected to and served a term on the AAUW National Board. Throughout her adult life, she worked diligently to break down the barriers women scientists faced and to advance equity for women and girls. Sarah Ann (Sally) Woodin was a Professor in the Ecology program at Johns Hopkins University when Bets began her doctorate program in 1978. Sally was a pioneer in using experimental methods to understand the ecology of invertebrate animals living in intertidal sand flats. Given their similar research interests, Bets asked Sally to serve on her Dissertation Committee. Sally was simultaneously a mentor to Bets, a valuable research advisor, and a friend. Sally married David S. Wethey in 1979, and the two moved to the University of South Carolina, where they both had positions in the Biology Department and the Marine Science Department. The two had distinguished careers at the University of South Carolina. Sally continued her sand flat research, establishing herself as a preeminent researcher in the field. David sometimes collaborated with Sally but had his own research projects as well ranging from barnacle ecology to patterns of ocean warming. His strong mathematical skills were brought to bear in his field research projects. Each of them graduated many doctoral students, including a number of women, who have gone on to distinguished careers in academia, government, and non-governmental organizations. Sally and David are now Distinguished Professors Emeriti at the University of South Carolina, but continue to do original research. Sally was a strong role model for Bets. The research accomplishments and continued mentoring of graduate students are also recognized in the creation of the Sarah Woodin and David Wethey Career Development Grant.
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