Five Stars Awarded for 2024-2025!

In late August 2025, AAUW National announced the Five Star Award winning branches for 2024-2025. We are very proud that the AAUW Danville-Alamo-Walnut Creek Branch achieved all five stars! This highlights the commitment and quality of our board, committees, and members’ combined efforts to produce educational programs and lead advocacy efforts for women and girls. The five categories where DAW met the national goals were:

• Advancement – for maintaining fiscal solidity and meeting fundraising targets,
• Public Policy and Advocacy – for supporting AAUW policy goals local action and having related presentations and policy related programs,
• Governance and Sustainability – for demonstrating responsible branch leadership and DEI support,
• Communications – for sharing and publicizing AAUW related information
• Programs – for focusing branch programs in keeping with AAUW priorities.

AAUW National’s Five-Star Program helps branches align with AAUW’s strategic priorities and advance our mission of achieving gender equity for women and girls. Branches are awarded stars based on their meeting specific goals set by AAUW National in five separate categories each fiscal year. Branches attaining stars in this program are recognized on the national website.

Prior to the latest year’s award, the DAW branch achieved three stars in the 2023-2024 program in the areas of Communications and External Relations, Programming and Public Policy & Advocacy. This recognition is a testament to the dedication, hard work, and commitment of our branch members to advancing AAUW’s mission of gender equity for women and girls.

The DAW branch achieved our three stars thanks to the direction and efforts of Monika Witte, Ogie Strogatz, Laurinda Ochoa, and all of the 2023-24 Board and DAW volunteers! Congratulations on this well-deserved recognition.

For more about the AAUW Five-Star Program – click here.