The Augsburg Women Engaged Philanthropy Council has grown in the past year. Augsburg alumnae formed AWE in 2009 to unite women with shared interests and passions through\u00a0events, mentorship, and philanthropy. Today, AWE inspires women to connect, learn, and give.<\/p>\n
Connect<\/strong>\u2014Members gathered at Homecoming for a painting party to prepare pieces of a mural titled \u201cEmergence\u201d that will be installed in the Norman and Evangeline Hagfors Center for Science, Business, and Religion.<\/p>\n Learn<\/strong>\u2014AWE hosted a discussion following the 2016 Center for Wellness and Counseling Convocation and a pre-concert reception at the annual Woman Voice: Voice of Hope choral performance.<\/p>\n Give<\/strong>\u2014Members raised more than $100,000 for the \u201cEmergence\u201d mural and are engaged in planning to raise an additional $1 million for scholarships.<\/p>\n AWE\u2019s participation has nearly doubled during the past year and includes Augsburg women from all generations, degree programs, and career fields.<\/p>\n If you are interested in learning more about AWE, contact Martha Truax, associate director of leadership gifts, at 612-330-1652 or truaxm@augsburg.edu.<\/span><\/p>\n [Top Image]:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em> AWE Philanthropy Council members [L to R]: Debby (Fredrickson) Crowley \u201976, Danielle Stellner \u201907, Joni Marti \u201905 MAL, Lori Moline \u201982, Martha Truax \u201916 MAL, Shelby (Gimse) Andress \u201956, Lisa Zeller \u201981, \u201989 MAL, Cheryl Jensen \u201986, Donna McLean, and Kris (Peterson) Pearson \u201978. Not pictured: Rachel (Olson) Engebretson \u201998, Dr. Lisa Latham \u201983, Diana Pierce \u201916 MAL, and Cindy (Winberg) Sisson \u201983.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Augsburg Women Engaged Philanthropy Council has grown in the past year. Augsburg alumnae formed AWE in 2009 to unite women with shared interests and passions through\u00a0events, mentorship, and philanthropy. Today, AWE inspires women to connect, learn, and give. AWE highlights: Connect\u2014Members gathered at Homecoming for a painting party to prepare pieces of a mural <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,73],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-8346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni-news","category-auggies-connect","tag-fall-winter-2017"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8346"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8546,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8346\/revisions\/8546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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