Partners
The Allstate Foundation is committed to ending domestic violence by empowering victims with the tools to achieve financial independence and a life free from abuse. Since 2005, The Allstate Foundation has invested more than $70 million to help empower nearly 2 million domestic violence survivors through its domestic violence program.
Centene Corporation, a Fortune 25 company and the largest provider of Medicaid managed-care solutions in the U.S., is committed to providing the best possible care to its members and the communities in which they live. Centene believes that quality healthcare should focus on the individual and address all facets of a person’s well-being, including environmental and socioeconomic factors.
With that goal, YWCA USA and Centene Corporation engaged in a three-year project to launch Young Women Choosing Action, an emotional management and healthy relationships program for teen girls served through YWCA’s network. Funded by a grant from The Centene Charitable Foundation, Young Women Choosing Action is an intersectional and culturally responsive program designed with the needs of low-income young women and women of color in mind. Throughout 13 facilitated sessions, teens with varying experiences with trauma, stress, and structural inequities develop leadership skills, expand their understanding of their responses to trauma, cultivate a practice of personal well-being, and ultimately build their capacity as leaders.
YWCA USA is a partner in the Collaborative to Advance Equity Through Research, a national coalition of institutions in the U.S. committed to taking meaningful action to support and improve research addressing the lives of women and girls of color. As a Collaborative partner, YWCA USA has made a commitment to invest resources in research and research applications over the next five years, and works collaboratively with other members to build new connections, share promising practices, and support the advancement of research addressing the lives of women and girls of color.
YWCA USA is a member of the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), proudly joining this community of more than 850 prominent corporations, academic institutions, government agencies, and nonprofits working to increase girls’ and women’s participation in technology and computing. As a member of the K-12 Alliance, YWCA USA works to improve the recruitment, retention and advancement of girls in computing-related STEM education programs and career fields that can greatly enhance their economic opportunities and outcomes.
As a member of Arizona State University’s National STEM Collaborative (NSTEMC), YWCA USA pursues our strategic commitment to providing girls and women of color access to high-quality opportunities, experiences, and pathways to enter and persist in science, technology, engineering, and/or mathematics (STEM) fields. Housed within the Center for Gender Equity in Science and Technology (CGEST) at Arizona State University, our membership in NSTEMC provides YWCA USA access to evidence-based STEM strategies in conjunction with possible partner organizations.
Through the Treasure & Bond give back program, Nordstrom is supporting YWCA USA TechGYRLS curriculum and 35 local STEM/STEAM and youth development programs with a $952,815 contribution.
T-Mobile’s employee networks have chosen YWCA USA as its 2018 partner. The Multicultural Network is supporting Stand Against Racism and the Women’s Leadership Network is supporting Week Without Violence, with a $20,000 contribution to each signature campaign.
As an extension of our national Health & Safety platform, YWCA USA has adopted RunJumpThrow (RJT) as a model program. RJT, a program of USA Track and Field (USATF), is a hands-on curriculum designed to introduce children to basic skills of running, jumping and throwing — skills that are essential to physical literacy and building life-long habits of and access to physical activity. This partnership helps YWCA USA positively impact the lives of children, especially those who are traditionally underserved, have the least access to structured and unstructured play, and are likely to have inequitable health outcomes. As a model program, YWCA USA has partnered with USATF to customize a RJT curriculum that specifically focuses on how RJT aligns with one of our national outcomes: to improve the health of women and girls of color.