Captive Audience
A perfect spring day, accomplished authors, an engaging Silent Auction, delicious food and an electric atmosphere all combined for a very successful Authors Day on May 3, 2025. Almost $10,000 was raised to provide scholarships to deserving women in the Pikes Peak region.
Authors Day 2025 featured two amazing Colorado authors; Buzzy Jackson, who gave a compelling talk on the research that went into her novel To Die Beautiful, and Michelle
Theall, who shared her emotional story of the challenges of adopting a child as an LGBTQ+ couple which she shares in detail in her memoir, Teaching the Cat to Sit.
Silent Auction Table – Lots of Great Stuff!
Baskets
Gift Cards
Creativity
SUPPORT OUR SCHOLARSHIP FUND!
Contribute directly to our scholarship fund by clicking on the yellow donate button (on this page), and/or participate in the AAUW COS Author’s Day/Silent Auction, our branch’s only annual fundraiser. Check out Meetings & Programs early in the year to learn about and register for Author’s Day (usually held in May). Click here for information about the AAUW COS Branch Scholarship Program.
AAUW-COS would like to recognize the following merchants who contribute items to our annual silent auction fundraiser. Please show your appreciation for their generosity by patronizing the following businesses:
Adventures Out West, Amanda’s Fonda, B.J.’s Restaurant and Brewhouse, Center for the Arts at UCCS, Chuy’s Tex-Mex, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Concept Restaurants (Jose Muldoons, Mackenzie’s Chop House), Costco, Covered Treasures, Crumbl Cookies, Dreams Into Designs, Ent Center for the Arts, Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers, Garden of the Gods Resort, Garden of the Gods Trading Post, Get Up & Go Travel (Sharon Rice), Heart of Jerusalem, Heartfelt Financial Solutions, Hooked on Books, JulyFive Designs, Marigold Cafe & Bakery, Nothing Bundt Cakes, Panera, P.F. Changs, Poor Richards Downtown, Scheels, The Olive Tap, Theatreworks, Urban Egg & Salsa Brava