You helped us raise $30,000 for the YWCA's affordable child care and racial justice programs. This is simply amazing and we are so grateful!

Because of your support, families can access high-quality, affordable and safe child care during this difficult time. Latina high school students will come together for mentorship and support to help them achieve their goals and navigate the post-secondary education application process with our LAS program. Elementary students and adults will begin, and continue, their anti-racism journeys through our Reading to End Racism and Being an Antiracist trainings. And youth of color will start learning about STEM careers and building those skills early. This is what the Dash & Bash is all about, and the YWCA's mission to eliminate racism and empower women is YWe Dashed!

Dolores Huerta was an incredible speaker, and if you missed the Online Closing Ceremony, you can watch the recording here. 

Check our our Thank You video highlighting our awesome participants!

This measure intends to suppress votes, including denying voter registration for 17-year-olds, and to inflame anti-immigration sentiment.

No exceptions for health of mother, rape or incest. Undermines women’s economic empowerment and sovereignty of own bodies.

Promotes women’s economic empowerment, as women are often the primary caretakers.

Be sure to vote your entire ballot! Local contests and issues are critical.

Ballot Track is a free service for Boulder County voters that can send you notification by text message, phone call, or email when your ballot has been sent and received by our Elections Division.

To be effective, researchers have found, conversations about race must be explicit, in unmistakable terms that children understand.

Join the YWCA for a special introductory program discussing parenting with a racial justice lens. We will explore the following areas that provide a foundation to start talking with your children about race:

Register today as there are limited spots for this opportunity! Register for one of two virtual zoom sessions:

The YWCA’s mission is to eliminate racism and empower women. The YWCA has been actively engaged in the BVSD schools for two decades now with their Reading to End Racism program to promote racial justice by reading aloud and having conversations to help eliminate racism and discrimination. The goal is to empower every student to promote peaceful relationships and support a nurturing environment in which every student can thrive.

Persimmon Early Learning (formerly Children's Alley) is Now Enrolling for Permanent Childcare Slots

Start the enrollment process today to secure spots for permanent care!

Visit our website and fill out our Interest Form to sign up for an Info Session, be notified of Virtual Tours, and begin the enrollment process today. 

For additional questions, please email Kate Hise at: khise@ywcaboulder.org.

Setting up a recurring, monthly donation is quick and easy, and a great way to streamline your giving.

It's a win-win - you build your giving into your monthly budget and take it off your to-do list, and your recurring support means the YWCA can count on that gift every month and spend a little more time focused on our programs and services and a little less time on fundraising.

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and the YWCA's Week Without Violence, Oct. 18 - 24, is part of a global movement of YWCAs across the country and around the world to end violence against women and girls. It's a sad fact that not all violence is acknowledged or responded to equally, and that some victims go unrecognized altogether. For over 20 years, the YWCA has set aside one week every October as a Week Without Violence. For more info, please visit YWCA USA's Week Without Violence resource page: https://ywcaweekwithoutviolence.org/

Womxn experience domestic violence, gender-based violence, and intimate partner violence irrespective of socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, religious affiliation, and sex. While no two cases of abuse are the same, we know that abusers exert power over their partners to achieve and maintain power and control over an intimate partner, such as physical violence, emotional abuse, isolation of the victim, financial and economic abuse, intimidation, coercion, and threats. For survivors who identify as women of color, obstacles in leaving an abusive relationship are often heightened due to existing cultural and institutional barriers, making them less likely to seek help and resources to free themselves from their abusers.

Join us for this virtual panel in which we will engage leaders of partner organizations who are working to eliminate violence against ALL womxn and their communities in a discussion that will provide facts and stats, debunk myths, and provide resources to help survivors thrive.

For some in our community, staying home is also not safe. The uncertainty created by the COVID-19 pandemic combined with social isolation, reduced access to employment and food, and in some cases lack of child care, is difficult for many families and individuals to endure. Please reach out to your family, friends, and neighbors by phone or video, and help ensure they feel supported. Anyone witnessing a child or at-risk adult in a life-threatening situation should call 911 immediately. The Boulder County Abuse and Neglect Hotline is available 24 hours a day, every day, at 303-441-1309.

• Help them plan where they (and the children), could go in an emergency or if they decide to leave.

• Agree on a code word or signal they can use to let you know they need help.

• Help them prepare an excuse so they can leave quickly if they feel threatened.

• Find out about how the police can protect them, and if calling the police is an option.

• Help them prepare an "escape bag" and hide it in a safe place. If they leave, they will need money, keys, clothes, bank cards, driver's license, social security documents, property deeds, medication, birth certificates, passport and any other important documents.

• Think if it is safe to help interrupt an episode of violence, create a code so you can knock on the door.

• If they decide to stay they may need to think about other ways to protect themselves and the children from further violence.

***Be careful. Don't place yourself in a position where the person who is being abusive could harm or manipulate you. Don't try to intervene directly if you witness a person being assaulted - call the police instead.***

Due to the many challenges we are all experiencing with the pandemic, we have decided to postpone our annual Dancing with Boulder Stars event until June 2021. We are hopeful that by then we will be able to better recruit a full slate of dancers and possibly be able to host the event in person with social distancing measures in place. We'll look forward to seeing everyone for our favorite dance competition next spring!

Premier Mortgage Group donated $3,000 to YWCA as part of their Community Giving Program. For each person who refinances or takes out a new mortgage and mentions the YWCA, Premier Mortgage Group donates $500 to us.

Grants Manager

May 2019

As Grants Manager, I persuasively tell potential funders about the impact of the YWCA programs and presence in the Boulder County community to raise revenue for the organization. I also research potential funders and handle the grant reports.

My favorite thing about working at the YWCA is working with a great group of women who are passionate about the work they are doing.

People may not know I was born in Washington, DC, and have a wonderful son plus two dogs and a cat.

Thank you, Lily's Sweets, for your incredible support as a Dash & Bash Sponsor!