The Eleanor Roosevelt Fund Award is for an honorarium of $5000 plus travel expenses to attend the AAUW National Convention in June 2011 to be held in Washignton, DC. The award honors an individual, project, organization, or institution for outstanding contributions to equity and education for women and girls. The award is given for a broad range of activities including classroom teaching, education, and research initiatives. Work should support the following goals:
1. To remove barriers to women’s and girls’ participation in education
2. To promote the value of diversity and cross-cultural communication
3. To develop greater understanding of the ways women learn, think, work, and play.
For more information please visit: http://www.aauw.org/learn/awards/erfund.cfm