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| We Heart Education! 
Children need our support to be ready for school, to stay in school and to make a connection between education and their future.
Anyone with passion and commitment can help a young person achieve greater academic success. Volunteers can make the difference!
Sign up today to join the Volunteer Challenge and become a reader, tutor, or mentor. San Diego students need our help! | |
| What Did You Miss?
If you missed the January Women's Leadership Council meeting then you came to the right place! Click HERE to read the complete meeting minutes and learn more about: - Recent projects
- Upcoming projects & events
- UWSD's education research
- Community Conversations
- Women United Fund
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| Welcome...
We are pleased to welcome our newest WLC Champions:
Kimberly C. Byrd
Kimberly Howard | |
| You Are Part of a National Movement
Your membership in the Women's Leadership Council of San Diego makes you part of a powerful National Women's Leadership Council Network.
What have we accomplished? We have mobilized 50,000 passionate, caring women dedicated to addressing the most critical needs in 120 local communities across the U.S. by giving, advocating and volunteering.
Together we have raised over $830 million in contributions in the past 11 years with more members giving more money than any other similar organization.
Where are we going? Goals include reaching $1 billion by the end 2012, putting a major dent in early grade literacy statistics, growing locally and nationally, and expanding internationally.
United Way Women's Leadership Councils have responded to United Way's call to action to increase the number of volunteers working on this important issue by one million, as we are committed to recruiting 100,000 volunteers.
If the last ten years are evidence of what 50,000 caring, passionate and powerful women can do, this is only the beginning!
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| Do you know
other women who
LIVE UNITED?
Please forward this email to other women in the community who would be interested in our efforts.
Missed the United Way general e-news? Click here to view | |
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Let's Learn Together!
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Every year, nearly 1 million U.S. students fail to graduate high school on time. That's one in four students!
United Way of San Diego County has launched a comprehensive, community-focused research initiative to explore key education issues in greater depth regionally. Women's Leadership Council members got a sneak peak at the research results at our January meeting. Laura Deitrick, Director of Caster Family Center for Nonprofit Research at USD, highlighted several key facts:
Parental engagement is critical to help ensure students' academic success. Parents involved in their children's schools means children with larger vocabularies who are better readers and who perform better in school. Education in the early years is a smart social investment. Every dollar spent on preschool generates more than a $7 savings by reducing the amount of government spending on welfare, criminal justice and education. There is a significant achievement gap between ethnic groups. Only 57% of all Hispanic and Latino, and 58% of African American fourth-grade students in San Diego County
are reading proficiently at the fourth-grade level, compared to nearly 85% of White and Asian fourth graders. Students classified as English Language Learners (ELL), economically disadvantaged, and disabled score lower in English-language arts than the total student population. Achievement gaps appear to widen for ELLs in the upper elementary grades so that by fifth grade ELLs are the most underperforming subgroup of students on the California Standards Test exam for English-language arts. There is little change in student achievement trends from elementary to middle school. 40% of San Diego County eighth-grade students were not proficient in English-language arts. Students who are classified as Limited English Proficiency (LEP) are more likely to drop out of high school. The adjusted four-year derived dropout rate in San Diego County is 27% for LEP students as compared with 19.7% for the entire student population. One of the strongest roles United Way plays in making real community change is that of a mobilizing force, recruiting people with passion, expertise and resources to make a difference. In the area of Education, United Way of San Diego County is beginning to shape the community conversation, convene stakeholders to examine issues, develop strategies and execute action plans on issues that matter most. We have to ask ourselves, "What role will our Women's Leadership Council play in the education movement in San Diego?"
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Save the Date
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Invitations will be sent for all individual events, but mark your calendars now!
Volunteer Opportunity
Mock job interview with teens Two opportunities for WLC Members to help teens enrolled in youth financial education programs enhance their job interview skills.
Social Advocates for Youth:
Thursday, February 9, 1:30-2:30 p.m.
4153 Market St., Suite A, San Diego 92102
San Diego Housing Commission:
Tuesday, February 28, 4-7:30 p.m.
1122 Broadway, San Diego 92105
Volunteer Opportunity
Share your voice! You don't need to be an expert to participate, just someone who cares about the community.
Small group conversation about financial stability, jobs and the broader issue of Income:
Thursday, March 8, 11:45 am-1:00 pm.
Small group conversation about education. This is an expanded conversation from those held last year.
Tuesday, March 20, 11:45 am-1:00 pm.
Click here to RSVP
RSVP by 3/15/12Both conversations will take place at United Way offices at 4699 Murphy Canyon Road. Lunch will be provided.
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