About SWUUW
Home
Conferences
E-News
Membership
Resources
Links
Contact Us
2005-2010 Long-Range Strategic Plan Draft
(pdf) (html)
Southwest UU Women is a non-profit organization that supports women through worship, learning, leadership, community and social justice. SWUUW discusses women's issues, explores feminist theology, promotes friendships and celebrates the diversities that makes us individual women on our individual spiritual paths.
SWUUW is a distirct-wide organization open to all UU Women's Groups and women in the Southwest Conference area.
At the 2002 SWUUW Annual Women's Conference, SWUUW voted to donate $5,000 to start a Micro-credit bank, $500 to the Heifer foundation, and $100 ($300 total) per call to the Chalice Lighters. More Information on Service
SWUUW is a 501c3 non-profit organization that supports women through worship, learning, leadership, community and social justice.
What do You Get from SWUUW?
Newsletter
Online copies of SWWIRL, the SWUUW newsletter, are available (see ONLINE NEWSLETTERS). To receive notification about what's going on in SWUUW, be notified about online newsletters or have the ability to share information with other SWUUW members, please subscribe to our yahoo e-mail list at SWUUW-subscribe@yahoogoups.com or unsubscribe at SWUUW-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com.
Social Action
SWUUW supports social action. In 2002, we voted to donate $5,000 to start a micro-credit bank, $500 to the Heifer foundation and $100 ($300 total) per call to the Chalice Lighters. For more information, please read the article posted on E-NEWS or see SERVICE.
Resource Library
SWUUW also has a large collection of videos available. These are available to ALL members. See LIBRARY for list of what's available.
Annual Women's Conference
The "seed" money for the annual conferences come from SWUUW. This "seed" money is repaid to SWUUW after the hosting group concludes the conference. To host a conference, send e-mail to one of the officers listed on our CONTACT page.
District-Level Communication
SWUUW provides a district-level communication through the newsletter and yahoo e-mail list.
Participation and Leadership Opportunities
SWUUW offers an opportunity for leadership, which is backed up with scholarship funding for sending officer(s) to leadership school and/or SWUUC Conferences (Spring/Fall/SWUUSI). We have also sponsored other SWUUW women with the scholarship for the Dwight Brown Leadership School. Volunteers within the SWUUW organization have kept this organization going since the 1920s.
SWUUW is on the grow! Your participation and interest helps the organization grow and be more meaningful for the women in this district!
Participation by Women's Groups within SWUUC is vital to providing annual Women's Conferences, because it takes a group of women to put one on! See CONFERENCES for a list of those scheduled.
SWUUW Activities
SWUUW has been active at SWUUSI each year by providing LUNCHES PLUS, which offers a lunch alternative to the restaurant food for a modest cost. The lunches are SWUUW fundraisers and have helped raise the money used for "seed" money. Beginning in 2001, the LUNCHES PLUS money went directly for our social action projects. To support our social action, eat and encourage others to eat at LUNCHES PLUS.
The "PLUS" part of LUNCHES PLUS is a program offering information about social justice issues. Plus one day (WEDNESDAY) is scheduled for a business meeting.
SWUUW has also been active at the SPRING and FALL SWUUC Conferences by sponsoring a workshop or sending a representative or both. Also, SWUUW often hosts a lunch table at Spring & Fall Conferences so topics of interest can be discussed.