2026 Students Receiving Re-Entry / Deferred Entry College Scholarships

Provide “Healthcare Profession Scholarships” to college students from the Morgan Hill area who are pursuing a degree in a healthcare profession. 

Provide supplemental Keeping In Touch (KIT) grants to previous scholarship recipients to support them as they continue in their field of study.

Provide a “Fritts Family STEM Scholarship” to college women from Morgan Hill or Gilroy who are already in college and planning to graduate from a 4-year school with a STEM (science, technology, engineering or math) degree.

This is an endowed scholarship providing a $1000 scholarship each year for 10 years.

Provide a “Judy Kinker Memorial Scholarship”, established in memory of AAUW Morgan Hill member Judy Kinker.

This is an endowed scholarship, with $10,000 provided by Judy’s four daughters and an additional $2,000 by friends. One or two $1000 scholarships are given each year from this fund while money remains. Recipient selection is from among students applying in any of the above scholarship categories.

Provide funding and mentorship for “Young Women Leaders”

2026 Young Women Leaders’ Conference Participants

The annual Young Women Leaders Conference, organized and run by AAUW Morgan Hill’s Young Women Leaders is offered to local teens.

We would like to acknowledge and thank the Santa Clara County Youth Climate Action Team for their generous grant to assist with conference expenses. Thank you also to the Morgan Hill Unified School District for providing conference space at no charge.

Provide Community Action Grants to local non-profit organizations for projects whose goals are consistent with AAUW’s mission.

Provide scholarships to send Morgan Hill middle school students (from MHUSD schools or local public charter schools) to Tech Trek, an AAUW-sponsored one week math and science summer camp  for middle school girls.

We were excited to be able to again send 10 MHUSD middle school girls to Camp Carson at UCSC.

2026 Morgan Hill Tech Trek campers

Fund Morgan Hill’s Fifth Annual Community Earth Day Celebration, organized by AAUW Morgan Hill’s Climate Education and Action Committee.

We would like to thank the City of Morgan Hill for partnering with us in offering this event to the public. Many thanks also to the presenters and entertainers who made the event fun and educational.

Sponsor a Morgan Hill woman’s participation in the Leadership Morgan Hill class of 2025.

Underwrite national AAUW priorities. These include graduate fellowships for women, community action grants, pioneering research, public policy advocacy, legal advocacy, and leadership programs.

The $75,000 “Morgan Hill Wildflower Run Research and Projects Grant Endowment” (#4403) was established in 2014 and funding was completed with proceeds from the Wildflower Run in 2019. It now provides funding annually for community action and career development grants. The fund is self-sustaining, with applications and recipient selection handled through AAUW National.

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Another branch endowment, the $100,000 “Irene Blaine/Barbara Cate Endowment for Graduate Fellowships” (#1802) was established in 1991 in the name of two AAUW Morgan Hill charter members to commemorate the 10^th anniversary of the branch. It was completed in 2001 with member donations and proceeds from the Wildflower Run. It funds an annual graduate or postgraduate fellowship. The fund is self-sustaining, with applications and recipient selection handled through AAUW National.

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