How Does The League Select Issues for Emphasis? Learn More about Program Planning

In League, "Program" means the issues that the League chooses for concerted study, education and action at local, state, and national levels. This year our Program Planning Meeting will be held on February 12, from 5:30-8 p.m. Checkout our handy "Program Planning Explainer" to help you prepare for the event.

The Program Planning process is part of what makes the League a grassroots organization; each League member has the opportunity to influence the selection of issues where the local, state, and national League will focus time, talent and money. This year we will focus on state issues in advance of the 2025 LWVNY convention in June as well as local issues.

The Program Planning Explainer will help you prepare. Read more about LWVNY positions here.

Winter Getting You Down?

Members, mark your calendar for Sunday, February 2, 2025, from 2-4 for our annual League members' Winter Doldrums Party. For more than thirty years, the Doldrums Party has proven to be the best antedote to the cold, the snow, the icy sidewalks, the cold, the sleet, the cold—you get the picture!  The Doldrums Party is a warm gathering with  lively conversation, lucious treats, and wine and other beverages, as well as our fabulous silent auction. Look for your invitation after the first of the year in the upcoming issue of Update.

Renewal Time is Here!

The latest issue of Update contains your LWV Cooperstown membership renewal form or you can  download the form.Please renew as early as possible; it makes our work so much easier! Thank you.

Students Inside Albany Applications are Now Open

  The 2025 Students Inside Albany (SIA) Conference will be held May 18-24. SIA brings together students from across the state to Albany to get a first-hand education about state government. The program is designed to increase high school students’ awareness of their responsibility in representative government and provide information about the tools necessary for meeting that responsibility. While at the conference students from across the state will join their peers in a hands-on learning experience about how state government works. While in Albany, the students will have an opportunity to tour the state’s Capitol and shadow their Senators and their Assemblymember for an afternoon. Learn more.