Minnesota Women of Today

This programming area, not available prior to 2009-2010, encourages involvement in the local community (e.g. food shelf, a civic project, senior citizens, adopt-a-family, etc.). It was developed to assist and encourage MNWT chapters to become significantly involved in their local communities, resulting in "community connections"; increase recognition of a chapter's joint ventures with local community organizations, and highlight the following areas:

• Promote Friendship Ventures at least one trimester
• Promote the Outstanding Person with Developmental Challenges award
• Promote the Community Connections Awards
• Promote a community-focused area of the SPM's choosing
• Promote national programming areas that do not fall under MNWT programming area
• Honor Year-End Award recipients who have established outstanding community connections

If your District does not have a Community Connections DPM, please have your programming Vice President connect with me. Otherwise, I welcome all Community Connections LPM’s to email me. There are many exciting incentives and recognition for involvement in this programming area, and I want to be sure that I am in contact with as many of you as possible. This year community-focused projects involve families, and specifically military wives and families. The USWT Programming area this year is the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence.