2023-24 Wildflower Fund Recipients (2024)

In 2023-24, we distributed $69,000 from the Wildflower Fund (Wildflower Run registrations, corporate sponsorships, and individual donations) in support of education and equity for women and girls. Funds raised were directed to the following:

Provide scholarships to high school girls graduating from Morgan Hill Unified School District (MHUSD) schools.

Provide a “Fritts Family STEM Scholarship” to college women from Morgan Hill or Gilroy who are already in college and planning to graduate from a 4-year school with a STEM (science, technology, engineering or math) degree.

This is an endowed scholarship providing a $1000 scholarship each year for 10 years.

Provide two “Judy Kinker Memorial Scholarships”, established in memory of AAUW Morgan Hill member Judy Kinker.

This is an endowed scholarship, with $10,000 provided by Judy’s four daughters and an additional $2,000 by friends. One or two $1000 scholarships are given each year from this fund while money remains. Recipient selection is from among students applying in any of the above scholarship categories.

The annual Young Women Leaders Conference, organized and run by AAUW Morgan Hill’s Young Women Leaders is offered to local teens.

We would like to acknowledge and thank Silicon Valley Clean Energy and the County Office of Women’s Policy for their generous grants to assist with conference expenses.

Sponsor a college student from Morgan Hill to participate in NCCWSL (National Conference for College Women Student Leaders).

NCCWSL is an annual national leadership conference for college women. Funding includes travel expenses plus conference registration.

Provide scholarships to send MHUSD Middle School students to Tech Trek, an AAUW-sponsored one week math and science summer camp for middle school girls.

For many years AAAUW Morgan Hill has been participating in Tech Trek. This year, a new camp, Camp Carson (named after early environmentalist, Rachel Carson) was opened at UC Santa Cruz. We were excited to be able to send 10 MHUSD middle school girls to this new camp.

Fund Morgan Hill’s Third Annual Community Earth Day Celebration, organized by AAUW Morgan Hill’s Climate Education and Action Committee.

We would like to thank the City of Morgan Hill for partnering with us in offering this event to the public. Many thanks also to the presenters and entertainers who made the event fun and educational.

Underwrite national AAUW priorities. These include graduate fellowships for women, community action grants, pioneering research, public policy advocacy, legal advocacy, and leadership programs.

The $75,000 “Morgan Hill Wildflower Run Research and Projects Grant Endowment” (#4403) was established in 2014 and funding was completed with proceeds from the Wildflower Run in 2019. It now provides funding annually for community action and career development grants.

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