Live Your Dream Girls’ Conference
We are looking for new leadership for this project. If are interested in chairing or co-chairing the event, please contact initiative.aauw.poughkeepsie@gmail.com
The Annual “Live Your Dream Girls’ Conference” is a one-day event for 6th, 7th and 8th grade girls held in the fall at Dutchess Community College. The “Live Your Dream Girls’ Conference” encourages middle school aged girls to dream big about their futures. Girls gain inspiration and build confidence through creative self-expression, positive team-building workshops and interacting with uplifting role models. Participants explore self, engage in AAUW civic activities, and nurture a vision for the future. Making connections with college women, workshop leaders, AAUW volunteers, and of course having Lunch with Women Leaders is the cornerstone of our conference and doing it virtually makes that impossible.
So, we are not planning a Girls’ Conference this year, but hope to return next year bigger and better.
We welcome and encourage members to participate in the planning and execution of this event in 2022.
What Happened on November 2, 2019
Thirteenth Annual Live Your Dream Girls’ Conference
Dutchess Community College
53 Pendell Road, Poughkeepsie, NY
Video by Alyssa Covelli
Pictures 2019 Conference
Pictures by Bonnie Auchincloss and Pat Luczai
Divas, Dreamers and Darlings Fund
You can help inspire a girl to be strong, smart and bold by sponsoring her attendance at the Live Your Dream Girls’ Conference. Our members’ and friends’ generosity in the past years has made the difference. Your help can come in many forms, but we are asking for sponsorships for individual girls. More Information and Donation Forms
What is the Girls’ Conference?
The annual event is an inspirational day designed specifically for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade girls who face the challenges of the middle school years. Conference workshops focus on self awareness while encouraging and empowering girls to dream about the future and provide them with resources, role models, and a chance to express themselves.
The conference, presented in partnership with Dutchess Community College, is funded by the Poughkeepsie Branch AAUW, Inc. through fundraising and donations from individual members. The conference is organized and staffed by the women of AAUW and the facilitators donate their time.
Details of earlier Live Your Dream Conferences have been archived and are available from the branch historian.