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American Association of University Women California (AAUW CA)
The American Association of University Women promotes equity and education for all women and girls. Members raise over $600,000 annually for fellowships/grants, advocate on crucial issues affecting women including education and workplace equity, civil rights, affirmative action, reproductive choice and raise funds supporting women seeking judicial redress for sex discrimination in higher education. Open to all graduates holding a baccalaureate degree, AAUW values and seeks a diverse membership.		 www.aauw.org
American Business Women's Association (ABWA) Changing Times Chapter
Adelante Mujer Hispana of Silicon Valley
California Federation of Women's Clubs is a volunteer organization that has served its communities for over 100 years. California is part of the General Federation of Women's Clubs which is one of the world's largest and oldest women's volunteer service organizations. The feration works extensively in the pares of the Arts, Conservation, Education, Home Life, and International and Public Affairs. Volunteers annually contribute millions of hours, over 25,000 projects and raise over $3 million. All women are invited to join, and may contact President, Carol Lopez at (925) 838-0586. www.amhsv.org
Career Action Center www.careeraction.org
CEWAER,
the California Elected Women's Association for Education and Research, is the nation's oldest and largest association of elected and appointed women officials. A non-profit, non-partisan association, CEWAER holds networking and policy events throughout the state. Membership is open to anyone committed to the goals of supporting women in public office.For more information: (916) 278-3870 		www.caelectedwomen.org.
Indian Business & Professional Women www.ibpw.org
Institute for Women and Technology www.iwt.org
Junior Achievement

MentorNet,
the national electronic industrial mentoring network for women in engineering and science pairs undergraduate and graduate women studying engineering and related sciences with mentors in industry via e-mail, providing on-line information, applications, matching of mentors with students, training, coaching and ongoing communications, and evaluation. In its pilot semester, MentorNet matched just over 200 students with mentors; in 1998-99, 539 students from 26 universities were matched with mentors. For the 2000-2001 academic year, MentorNet matched 2,000 students from 70 campuses, including Stanford, Berkeley, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Georgia Tech, CalPoly, Purdue, Penn State, Texas A&M, Princeton, Dartmouth, and the Universities of Colorado, Michigan, Illinois, Southern California, and Texas, among others, with further growth expected in each subsequent year.

 www.mentornet.net
National Asian Women's Health Organization (NAWHO) www.nawho.org
National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) - Silicon Valley www.nawbo-sv.org
Northern California Supplier Development Council (NCSDC)
Planned Parenthood Golden Gate
The Santa Clara Valley Section of the Society of Women Engineers is a  non-profit, educational service organization of graduate engineers, and women and men with equivalent engineering experience, dedicated to the advancement of women in the engineering profession. We offer networking and professional development programs for our members as well as career guidance activities for girls and women to stimulate and sustain interest in engineering careers. Also, as I offered in our authorization form, if you have an electronic text-based description of the conference, we can send that out on our email distribution list.

http://swe-goldenwest.org/scvs/www/index.htm
San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women www.ci.sf.ca.us/cosw
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
San Francisco State University College of Extended Learning
San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce
Society of Women Engineers - Santa Clara Valley Section
The International Alliance of Executive and Professional Women www.t-i-a.com
U.S. Small Business Administration www.sba.gov
UCSF Center of Excellence in Women's Health
Workforce Silicon Valley www.amhsv.org
YWCA of Santa Clara Valley

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