Help Strengthen the Line

Academy Women is now three years old and growing to better meet the needs of our members. To develop and fund meaningful programs which will have a lasting impact on women’s lives, AcademyWomen needs your tax deductible donations. We are supported entirely by volunteer hours and donations; we do not currently utilize a paid staff. Generous donors have agreed to fund our administrative overhead, so 100% of your donations will be allocated to our program work.
Join us in supporting our mission to support, inspire and enable women to achieve unimagined possibilities and reach their full potential as leaders. Please e-mail feland@academywomen.org or roccie@academywomen.org with your donations, or with your suggestions for people, institutions, companies or foundations that may be interested in supporting our activities or matching your donation. Your own employers may be willing to support us; sometimes it just takes asking the right question. Help us support current and future generations of AcademyWomen!

The Defense Task Force on Sexual Harassment and Sexual Violence at the Service Academies, recommended service academies implement long distance mentoring for women cadets and midshipmen. AcademyWomen will be able to do exactly this with the e-mentor program!

The program will be implemented through a state-of-the-art e-mentor website which will pair protégés with mentors for one-on-one, email-based mentoring (e-mentoring) relationships. A facilitator will help with general program management and provide tips to enhance the mentorship relationship.

The AcademyWomen e-mentor Program is being developed by a team of AcademyWomen members led by Stefanie Goebel and Susan Feland. Working on the program content include: Maria Cerniauskas-Upton, Amy Marcotte and Gina Martyn. Trying to anticipate potential issues that may arise during the e-mentorship discussions, this team is developing an online training program for mentors and protégés. Tackling the technical functionality of the program are Barb Raggo (USNA), Diane Dumas (Military family), and Natalie Pedrovic (Naval Post Graduate School). This team is developing the software for the program and planning to have a working prototype by the end of March. Once the program is fully developed and ready to pilot, AcademyWomen members will be invited to sign up as both protégés and mentors.

If you are interested in working with the e-mentor program development team or have ideas for the program, we would love to have your help! Just email Stefanie Goebel at sgoebel@dakotacom.net.

Help us Update Our List of Distinguished Graduates
Academy Women is in the process of updating its list of distinguished graduates. We need your help to ensure this list is as current and complete as possible. We’d love to hear from you. Go to the AcademyWomen website (www.academywomen.org), click on “inspirational women” , then “distinguished female graduates” to review our current listing. Let us know who we’ve missed and send us your recommendations from all of the academies to feland@academywomen.org.
(ROTC, OTS, VMI, Citadel, USMA, USNA, USAFA, USCGA and USMMA.)