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About the League of Women Voters - LWV

Who we are and what we do

The League of Women Voters - LWV - is a nonpartisan political organization.

Nonpartisan means we never endorse, support or oppose any political party or candidate.
Political means we work to support the informed and active participation of people in government, especially through voting.
And we work to influence public policy through education and advocacy.

Our Mission statement is Defending Democracy. Empowering Voters.

Our Vision, Beliefs, and Intentions guide our Studied Positions and our activities.

About Our Work

In pursuit of our mission, LWV Cupertino-Sunnyvale (LWVCS) has two separate and distinct roles:

Empowering Voters: Voter Service & Community Education: We research and present unbiased nonpartisan information about candidates, the voting process and propositions and measures and support voter registration and non-partisan voter participation efforts.
Defending Democracy: Action and Advocacy: We walk in the footsteps of brave women who for over a hundred years have championed democracy, fair government, and the right to vote for all.
We take action and advocate for or against particular policies or laws once we have a fact-based, studied Position on an issue. To develop our Positions we work together to:
1. identify issues of concern,
2. study those issues,
3. develop published Positions at the local, state, or national level.
While we never take action regarding political parties or candidates, we work hard to support our stated Positions.

Please take a moment to find out more about the history of the League of Women Voters.

If you'd like to help keep democracy alive and functioning in our community and our nation,

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Funding Our Work

Our work is funded by the dues paid by contributions by members and others interested in keeping our democratic republic functioning through empowered , informed voters and by our members' dues.

LWVCS is a 501(c)(3) corporation, a nonprofit educational organization. Contributions are fully tax-deductible as allowed by law.
- LWVCS: Tax ID FEIN:23-7568455 (League of Women Voters of Cupertino-Sunnyvale)

Would you like to help fund our work? Donate Here

Leadership of the Cupertino-Sunnyvale LWV

Officers of our League are elected by our Membership every 2 years in our annual meeting in June.

They serve a two-year term from July 1 to June 30.

You can find the current list of our officers and their contact information on our Contact Us page.

Other Leagues

LWV is a grassroots organization, with over 700 local and regional Leagues across the 50 United States, as well as 50 State Leagues and the National US League.

Our local League is one of five Leagues in Santa Clara County. The others are:

Los Altos/Mt. View
Los Gatos/Monte Sereno/Saratoga (Southwest Santa Clara Valley)
Palo Alto
Santa Clara/San Jose
In addition, there is a coordinating League for the whole of Santa Clara County

Other Neighboring Leagues include:

Our Cupertino-Sunnyvale League members are automatically also members of:

History of our Website

As with everything else, our website is maintained by volunteers. If you're interested in helping improve and maintain our website and/or social media, please contact webmaster@lwvcs.org.

We have used several products to support our website over the years:

Start	System Name	System Provider	System URL	Registered URL
04/2005	LEW	LWV CA	cs.ca.lwvnet.org	www.lwvcs.org
03/2018	MyLo	LWV CA	my.lwv.org/california/cupertino-sunnyvale	www.lwvcs.org
06/2022	ClubExpress	ClubExpress	https://lwvcs.clubexpress.com	www.lwvcs.org

If you want to see the older websites, use the Internet Archive , to look at the many snapshots taken.

About the LWV National Membership Portal website:
I February 2025 the League of Women Voters consolidated its dues system from local to a nation-wide system. this system is accessed by LWV members with a separate login from tise LWVCS, either through links from the local League website Join and Renew pages or directly at https://portal.lwv.org.

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