YWCA, originally the Young Women's Christian Association of the United States of America, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering women, helping families and strengthening communities. YWCA is the largest network of domestic violence providers in the country, and is currently being funded by the VAWA.
With the fate of the VAWA in jeopardy, it is more important than ever that organizations supporting survivors receive the funding they need to continue their incredible work. Will you donate to your local YWCA today?
For more than 160 years, and with over 118 local chapters, YWCA has been working on amazing causes including but not limited to:
1. Promoting Federal Legislation to Support Survivors of Gender-Based Violence, including a prompt, comprehensive re-authorization of the VAWA.
2. Supporting Female Trauma Survivors, and the UN Gender Equality and Women Empowerment Goals. Domestic and sexual violence services provided by YWCA have reached 2.3 million women, girls, and families.
3. Removing Childcare and Housing Barriers to Women's Workplace Participation
4. Protecting and Supporting Immigrant Women, Children and Families
5. Ensuring access to quality, affordable, healthcare for women and girls.
YWCA helps accomplish their lofty goals through badass activism -- they have done everything from launch their own campaigns to starting petitions to creating a GOTV effort to make sure as many Americans as possible exercise their right next week.
Partnering with Rock The Vote, The United State of Women and a couple of other organizations, YWCA has pledged to mobilize 10,000 voters ahead of the midterm elections. And it doesn't stop there. YWCA's ultimate goal is to make these 10,000 people engaged citizens -- people who will now be active members of their community, demanding the change they desire from their representatives all year round.
Their other signature engagement effort, What Women Want, highlights issues that matter to women and, in a lofty report, is advocating for those issue to be at the forefront of debates, policy discussions and roundtables ahead of the midterms. You can view the report here. Spoiler alert: it's awesome.
With the fate of the VAWA in jeopardy, it is more important than ever that organizations supporting survivors receive the funding they need to continue their incredible work. Will you donate to your local YWCA today?