Welcome to the Gulfshore Chapter of Brandeis University National Women's Committee (BUNWC). We are located in sunny Southwest Florida with members from Naples, Bonita Springs, Marco Island, Isle of Capri, Estero and Fort Myers. 

Surprisingly, we are dedicated supporters of a University that most of us have never attended and many of us have never visited. We work in our local areas to aid Brandeis University, a non-sectarian school founded by the American Jewish community, in its commitment to academic excellence, social justice and responsibility, and peaceful co-existence of peoples from diverse ethnic, religious, and cultural backgrounds.

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BUNWC has for six decades been providing financial support to the university and its libraries.  We are the largest friends-of-a-library group in the world with more than 50,000 members in 92 communities nationwide.  Members have provided funds for more than a million books. 

In addition, we are supporting the libraries' need for state-of-the art computer technology, critical print and electronic journals, reference materials, and preservation of rare volumes and historical documents.  Recently BUNWC has expanded its mission to include fundraising for undergraduate scholarship and graduate fellowship funds.  These funds will be directed to the neurosciences, the humanities, Judaica, the sciences, and social justice.

Members of the individual BUNWC chapters may pursue their own passion for learning through Study Group courses created by Brandeis faculty exclusively for the Women's Committee and through University Outreach, an annual nationwide faculty lecture tour to Women's Committee chapters.  Individual chapters also offer their own originally designed study groups, workshops, and enrichment activities.

To learn about our chapter, please click on the "About Us" button above.