Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA San Antonio) – San Antonio, TX
Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) is a national multicultural women’s organization dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity so women and girls can thrive. YWCA’s focus areas include racial justice and civil rights, increasing economic advancement for women and girls of color, improving health and safety of women and girls of color, providing safety and security for women (including domestic and sexual violence services), and serving kids through childcare services and programming. Their Economic Empowerment and Workforce Readiness Programs include financial literacy classes, RESET (Re-engagement for Self-Sufficiency, Empowerment and Transformation) which serves disconnected young women, assistance to banking, legal and financial resources, and a Ready to Work workforce development program.
In San Antonio, the Fund for Workforce Equity is supporting YWCA to organize workers and learners of color (staff and/or parents of children enrolled in early childhood development programs) to advocate on their own behalf to institutions/entities that license and/or incentivize licensed child development programs, convincing them to include wage equity in their evaluation of program quality.