To kick off our new season of programs, our August 29th meeting will be a "networking/get to know you" event that many of you have been asking for.  Networking is all about knowing people. Join us as we learn more about each other.

After dinner, we will start with some networking tips from our new membership chair, Wendi Hall.  For new members and interested guests, we will highlight some of the lesser known benefits of membership in our organization.  Then each attendee will have approximately 2 minutes (depending on how many are in attendance) to tell us a little bit about yourself.  Suggestions for information you might want to provide would include:

• Your name
• Where you work (or used to, if not currently working)
• Your job title/responsibilities
• Why you are a member of AFWA (including any positions you hold) or why you might be interested in attending our meetings or joining the organization
• A "fun fact" about yourself or anything else you think would be of interest

If you are a member who hasn't been to a meeting in a while, an occasional guest, a student, or someone who has been thinking of coming to a meeting but hasn't pulled the trigger yet, this is the one to come to.  The more people we have in attendance, the more we will all get out of this and the more fun it will be.  Hope to see you there!

SCHOLARSHIP FUNDRAISING NEWS - MATCHING PLEDGE

As many of you are aware, one of the programs our chapter offers are scholarships for both 4-year and 2-year accounting and finance degree candidates.  For more information on eligibility criteria and timing of the scholarship applications, please see our website at www.milwaukeeafwa.org/scholarship.

One of our members has very generously agreed to match donations that are made to our scholarship fund through December 15, 2017.  She will be matching individual donations up to $250, with a maximum donation of $5,000.  It isn't very often that we receive an offer like this to benefit our scholarship fund, so please consider making a tax-deductible donation to our scholarship fund to take advantage of this match!

Donations can be made at the meetings, or you can mail a check payable to "Accounting and Financial Women's Alliance Scholarship Fund".  If you would like to mail a check, please contact treasurer@milwaukeeafwa.org for a mailing address.

Thank you in advance for supporting our scholarship fund!