ÿþ <table style="width: 911px; height: 256px" bordercolor="#000000" width="911" align="center" border="1"> <tr> <td bgcolor="#f5f5f5"> <div align="center"> <div align="center"><img style="width: 561px; height: 215px" height="215" alt="" src="https://www.kintera.com/accounttempfiles/account17280/images/hero0112.jpg" width="561" border="0" /></div> </div> </td> <td bgcolor="#ff6633"><a href="http://www.ywca-pasadena.org/"> <div align="center"><img style="width: 266px; height: 151px" height="151" alt="" src="https://www.kintera.com/accounttempfiles/account17280/images/hero02b12.jpg" width="266" border="0" /></div> </a></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="left"><strong><font face="Arial" color="#ff6633"><font color="#000000" size="1"><em>April&nbsp;2009</em></font></font></strong></p> </td> <td> <p dir="ltr" align="left"><strong><font face="Arial" color="#ff6633" size="2"><a href="https://www.kintera.org/site/apps/ka/sd/donor.asp?c=adJEJKPwB&b=2506311&en=dkINJ0ONIcLMJ6OSIeLNL4NMInJ7KeONKcISL6MLJjJYJbMXKyE"><strong><font face="Arial" color="#ff6633" size="2">Donate Online NOW&nbsp;</font></strong></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://www.ywca-pasadena.org"><strong><font face="Arial" color="#ff6633" size="2">pasadena-foothill valley</font></strong></a></font></strong></p> </td> </tr> </table> <p align="center"></p> <table style="width: 912px; height: 1614px" bordercolor="#000000" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" width="912" align="center" border="1"> <tr> <td bgcolor="#e8e8e8"> <p align="center"><span style="font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><span style="font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><span style="font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><span style="font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><span style="font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><span style="font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><span style="font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><span style="font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><span style="font-family: Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><span font-family: Arial?><span style="font-size: 10pt"><span style="color: #000000"><strong style="font-size: 21pt">The YWCA Pasadena-Foothill Valley's<br /> </strong></span><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: #ff6633"><strong>Women of Excellence <br /> Leadership Speaker Series</strong> <br /> </span></strong><span style="font-size: 18pt"><em style="font-size: 14pt"><strong>welcomes</strong></em></span>&nbsp;</p> <div align="center"><a style="font-size: 24pt" href="http://www.ywca.org/site/pp.asp?c=adJEJKPwB&b=3880215"><em style="color: #ff6633"><strong>Suzy Welch!</strong></em></a></div> <p align="center"> <table style="width: 564px; height: 325px" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" width="564" border="1"> <tr> <td><img style="width: 230px; height: 335px" height="335" alt="" src="http://www.ywca.org/atf/cf/%7B24911833-5C15-40C6-B874-F040C1258D7F%7D/SWelch.jpg" width="230" border="1" /></td> <td style="font-size: 10pt"><font size="2"> <p>Suzy Welch, author (Winning and Winning: The Answers) and columnist (O and Business Week) will kick off the YWCA Pasadena-Foothill Valley s 2009 Women of Excellence Leadership Speaker Series.</p> <p>With its mission of empowering women, the YWCA is particularly pleased to&nbsp;provide&nbsp;the opportunity to hear from a dynamic woman who is a respected journalist, a management consultant, a lecturer on women s leadership, a writer of both fiction and non-fiction and a mother of four teenage children.</p> </font> <p align="left">She will be speaking on personal decision-making strategies and balancing work and life issues, a topic also addressed in her latest book entitled <em>10-10-10</em>. Her husband, former General Electric CEO, Jack Welch will be in attendance to introduce Suzy as well as for a question and answer period. </p> <font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Proceeds from the event will support <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">YWCA</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Pasadena-Foothill</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Valley</st1:placetype></st1:place> programs for girls and women.</span></font></td> </tr> </table> <br /> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><strong style="color: #ff6633"><em>Copies of Suzy's book, made available by Vroman's, will be on hand Saturday for purchase and signing.</em></strong></p> <p align="left"><span style="color: #000000"><strong></p> <p align="center"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #ff6633"><span style="color: #ff6633">When:</span></span> <span style="font-size: 10pt">Saturday, May 9, 2pm - 4pm.<br /> </span><span style="color: #ff6633">Where:</span> <span style="font-size: 10pt">The Forum, All Saints Church, 132 North Euclid Avenue, Pasadena </span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #ff6633">Cost:</span> <span style="font-size: 10pt">$40 in advance, $50 at the door and includes refreshments<br /> </span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #ff6633">Purchase Tickets:</span> <span style="font-size: 10pt"><span style="color: #000000">online </span><a href="http://www.ywca.org/pasadena/suzywelch"><span style="color: #ff6633">here</span></a><span style="color: #000000"> or with Ashley Phillips at 626-296-8433. </span></span></span></p> <p align="center"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 10pt"></strong>Make checks payable to: YWCA Pasadena-Foothill Valley<br /> &nbsp; Mail to: YWCA, 1200 N. Fair Oaks Ave., Pasadena, CA 91103</span></span><strong></p> <div title="Print Page Break" style="font-size: 1px; page-break-before: always; vertical-align: middle; height: 1px; background-color: #c0c0c0">&nbsp; </div> <p> <table cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" width="570" border="0"> <tr> <td><img style="width: 114px; height: 185px" height="185" alt="" src="https://www.kintera.com/accounttempfiles/account17280/images/cell_phone.jpg" width="114" border="0" /></td> <td> <p style="font-size: 14pt" align="center"><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt"><strong><em>Just for Girls</em> Fundraiser: <br /> </strong></span>Donate your old cell phones.</strong></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-size: 10pt">Help us raise money by donating your old cell phones. You can donate by bringing your used cell phones to the YWCA office from March 30 to June 1, 2009.&nbsp;Your old phones are recycled and sent to battered women s shelters and senior citizen homes by Absolute Recycling.&nbsp;<br /> </span></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-size: 10pt">The YWCA&nbsp;will receive funds for every phone donated and the money raised will go towards our&nbsp;Just For Girls end of the year field trip</span>.&nbsp; </p> </td> </tr> </table> </p> <p style="font-size: 12pt" align="center"><span style="color: #ff6633"><span style="font-size: 14pt"><span style="color: #ff6633"><em>Thank you for your support!</em><br /> </p> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <td bgcolor="#ffffff"><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial"> <div align="center"><img style="border-left-color: #000000; border-bottom-color: #000000; border-top-color: #000000; border-right-color: #000000" height="55" alt="" src="https://www.kintera.com/accounttempfiles/account17280/images/saam_resize.jpg" width="259" border="1" /></div> <div align="left">&nbsp;</div> <div align="center">&nbsp; </div> <div align="left"><span style="font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt">Since the year 2000, the month of April has been designated Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM).&nbsp;&nbsp;The goal of SAAM is to raise public awareness about sexual violence (focusing on sexual assault and rape) and to educate communities and individuals on how to prevent sexual violence.<o:p></o:p> </span></span></div> <div align="left">&nbsp;</div> <div align="left"><span style="font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt">Sexual assault does not only affect women and girls; young boys&nbsp;are just as vulnerable to sexual assault. And yet, it has been found that victims of sexual assault are disproportionately women as they get older.&nbsp; According to the most recent 'Sexual Violence' fact sheet distributed by the Center for Disease Control (CDC),&nbsp;20% to 25%<font style="font-size: 10pt" size="3"> of women in college reported experiencing an attempted or a completed rape in college. That is 1 in 4 women in college.&nbsp; Chances are you knew one of these women or even worse,&nbsp;were one of these women.</font></span></span></div> <div align="left">&nbsp;</div> <div align="left"><span style="font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt">This fact reinforces the YWCA's desire to be a part of the empowerment of women to prevent and protect themselves from sexual assault.&nbsp;</span></span></div> <div align="left"> <p style="color: #ff6633" align="center"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial"><strong>In honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, the YWCA is offering SHIELD Women s Self Defense Introductory Class on April 22, 2009.</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><a style="color: #ff6633" href="http://www.shieldselfdefense.com/" target="_blank">SHIELD Women s Self Defense System</a>&nbsp;is a practical and effective fighting system specifically designed for women to combat sexual assaults. You will learn close-range fighting, to be efficient&nbsp;to fight in tight quarters, using your lower body strength to generate power. Each class builds upon the previous class and the training gets more intense as it progresses.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt">A&nbsp;four-week workshop will begin on May 6 from 6:30-9:00pm held at the YWCA Facility.&nbsp; You will also receive one private training session with the instructor Nelson Nio.&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt">Please contact Ayana Rose at 626-296-8433 for more information.</span></span></p> </div> <div align="left"><span style="font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><span style="color: #ff6633"><span style="font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #ff6633"><strong><u>More ways to get involved:</u></strong></div> <div align="center"> <ol style="color: #000000"> <li> <div align="left"><span style="font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><span style="font-family: Verdana">Sign up for </span><a style="color: #ff6633" href="http://www.peaceoverviolence.org/"><span style="font-family: Verdana">Denim Day LA</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana">&nbsp;presented by Peace Over Violence.</span></span></span></div> <li> <div align="left"><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial"><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial">Get Educated. <span style="color: #ff6633"><a style="color: #ff6633" href="https://www.nsvrc.org/" target="_blank">The National Sexual Violence Resource Center</a>&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt">(NSVRC) provides an abundance of resources and opportunities to raise your personal awareness around issues of sexual assault.&nbsp;Download and read &nbsp;<span style="color: #ff6633"><a style="color: #ff6633" href="https://www.nsvrc.org/publications/nsvrc-publications/booklets" target="_blank">Engaging Bystanders in Sexual Violence Prevention.</a> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div> </li> </ol> </div> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#ffffff"> <p align="center">&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: Arial"><strong>&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 18pt"><strong>Do you know <br /> </strong><a href="http://www.ywcapasadena.blogspot.com/"><strong style="color: #ff6633">"What's the Difference?"</strong></a></span></strong></span></p> <p align="center"> <table style="width: 548px; height: 234px" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" width="548" border="0"> <tr> <td><img height="220" alt="" src="https://www.kintera.com/accounttempfiles/account17280/images/whatsthedifference.jpg" width="198" border="1" /></td> <td> <p align="left"><span style="font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt">Check out the new post on the blog titled, "<a style="color: #ff6633" href="http://www.ywcapasadena.blogspot.com" target="_blank"><strong>Knowledge is Key to Eliminating Racism.</strong></a>" What are your thoughts?<span style="font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;After you have read the entry, </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial">make comments at the end of the post by clicking on the word 'comment.'</span></span></span></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt">If you would like to contribute to the blog with an original post, please email&nbsp;Community Outreach Coordinator, Ashley Phillips, at&nbsp;<a href="http://mail to: ashley@ywca-pasadena.org" target="_blank">ashley@ywca-pasadena.org</a>.<br /> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial"><br /> While at the site, remember to subscribe to the blog so that the updates come to you.</span></p> </td> </tr> </table> </p> <div></div> <p align="center"></p> <p align="center"></p> <div title="Print Page Break" style="font-size: 1px; page-break-before: always; vertical-align: middle; height: 1px; background-color: #c0c0c0">&nbsp; </div> <p align="center">&nbsp;<img height="63" alt="" src="https://www.kintera.com/accounttempfiles/account17280/images/_4806111382754.gif" width="227" border="0" /><br /> <a style="font-family: Verdana" href="https://www.kintera.org/site/apps/ka/sd/donor.asp?><strong style=" font-family: Arial? color: #ff6633;></strong></a><span style="color: #ff6633"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial"><span style="color: #ff6633"><strong style="color: #ff0000"><span style="font-size: 14pt"><span style="color: #ff6633"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial"><span style="color: #ff6633"><a href="https://www.kintera.org/site/apps/ka/sd/donor.asp?c=adJEJKPwB&b=2506311&en=evIPJ3PRJdLOK9MWLfKPI7PQJoL9LgMWLsJ0I9PVKpL1IgP4JzG"><strong style="color: #ff0000">Donate Online NOW!</strong></a></span></span></strong></span></span></strong></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></strong></p> <p align="left"><span style="color: #ff6633"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana"><span style="color: #000000">Your contribution to the YWCA Pasadena-Foothill Valley allows us to continue to offer our community:</span></span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><span style="color: #000000">Just For Girls enrichment and development program for the school-aged young women of Pasadena. </span></span></span> <li><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><span style="color: #000000">Racial Justice work in our community. </span></span></span> <li><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><span style="color: #000000">Community Building efforts through public dialogue and our program initiatives. </span></span></span> <li><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt">Ensuring that women from all walks of life have a voice in our city, region and nation.</span></span> </span></li> </ul> <div><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="color: #000000">Your generosity ensures that we cultivate the next entrepreneur, the next engineer, the next scientist, or the next U.S. Speaker of the House!<br /> </span></span></span></span></div> <hr /> <div align="center"><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #ff6633"><strong style="font-size: 14pt">How Can I Get Involved?</strong></span></span></div> <ul style="color: #000000"> <li> <div><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt">Volunteer. We are always recruiting women and girls to join a committee or to volunteer in the office.<br /> Contact the <a href="mailto:programs@ywca-pasadena.org" target="_blank">Program Office</a>.</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt"></a></span></span></div> <li> <div><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt">Make a gift of stock, real estate or money. <br /> Contact the&nbsp;<a href="mailto:pr@ywca-pasadena.org" target="_blank">Development Office</a>.</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt"></a> </span></span></div> <li> <div><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt">Join the Racial Justice Committee. Be a part of the conversation.<br /> Contact&nbsp;<a href="mailto:denisemjones@charter.net" target="_blank">Denise Jones</a></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt"> Chair.</span></span></div> <li> <div><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt">Contribute a brief article to our blog, "What's the Difference?" <br /> Contact <a href="mailto:ashley@ywca-pasadena.org" target="_blank">Ashley Phillips</a></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt">, Community Outreach Coordinator</span></span></div> </li> </ul> </span></td> <td bgcolor="#e8e8e8"> <p align="center"> <p>&nbsp;</p> <span style="font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt"> <p align="center"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial">Racial &amp; Ethnic Identity Development Workshop<br /> </span><br /> <img style="width: 305px; height: 230px" height="230" alt="" src="https://www.kintera.com/accounttempfiles/account17280/images/rj_committee_at_training.jpg" width="305" border="0" /></strong></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-family: Verdana">On Friday, March 13, the YWCA's staff, board and Racial Justice Committee members received a day-long training on developing a healthy racial&nbsp;and ethnic identity.</span></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-family: Verdana">The YWCA Racial Justice Committee coordinated with Casey Family Programs to provide this in house training.&nbsp;&nbsp;Facilitators from Casey Family Programs lead the audience through&nbsp;various discussions and activities&nbsp;focused on understanding the need for healthy racial&nbsp;and ethnic identity, promoting racial&nbsp;and ethnic&nbsp;pride, developing multicultural competence and&nbsp;identifying racism and discrimination.</span></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-family: Verdana">This training represents an initial critical step to working towards the elimination of racism in our community.&nbsp; As an organization that champions the value of racial equity, we know that it is necessary to begin with ourselves in this journey.&nbsp; We believe changes begin as our own perceptions and values are transformed.</span></p> <p align="center"><span style="font-family: Verdana"><strong><u>Join the Discussion, Join the Committee</u> </strong></span></p> <span style="font-family: Verdana"><strong> <p align="center"></strong>If discussing these issues and responding to them interests you, we would love to have you join our Racial Justice Committee.&nbsp; We meet every 4th Wednesday at the YWCA.&nbsp; For more details, please contact <a href="mailto: denisemjones@charter.net" target="_blank">Denise Jones</a></span></a></a><span style="font-family: Verdana">, our committee chair, or Ashley Phillips at the YWCA office at 626-296-8433.<br /> <br /> "<span style="font-size: 8pt">The YWCA will thrust its collective power toward the elimination of racism wherever it exists and y any means necessary." - <em>One Imperative</em></span></span></span></span></p> </td> </tr> </table>