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Year at a Glance 2013-14 Year at a Glance CELEBRATING 1894-2015 W C A G R E A T E R L O S Y A N G E L E S OUR MISSION CELEBRATING Founded in 1894, the YWCA Greater Los Angeles is a women’s membership movement built on the mission of eliminating racism and empowering women. As a YWCA, we advocate for justice and dignity for all people. For over a century, the YWCA Greater Los Angeles has provided housing and supportive services. YWCA Greater Los Angeles is pioneering a model of community centers and housing - co-created with diverse stakeholders - to transform lives, build self-reliance and, ultimately, strengthen communities. The YWCA Greater Los Angeles provides empowerment programs for individuals to have a safe space to live, learn and grow. 1894-2015 E A T E R L O S A N C A G R G E L E S Y W BOARD OF DIRECTORS EXECUTIVE TEAM Eleanor Beasley | Board Chairman Faye Washington | President & Chief Executive Officer Lisa D. Cagnolatti | Board Vice Chair Donna Crowder | Vice President, Operations and Administration Alva P. Adams-Mason | Secretary Cynthia Heard | Vice President, Business Development & Communications Patricia Keane | Treasurer Ann Marie Hickambottom | Vice President, Strategic Development Margaret Leong Checca Noel Russell-Unterburger | Vice President, Finance Sharon Shelton | Vice President, Empowerment Services Dr. Annalisa Enrile MariaElena Chavez | Director, Supervisor Gloria Molina Gerald M. Ford Community Empowerment Center Maria L. Garcia Norma Gonzalez | Director, Child Development Services & Vivian D. Howell Union Pacific Empowerment Center Amanda J. Lee Alva Moreno | Director, Sexual Assault Crisis Services Patricia Reed-Cunningham Jackie Honoré | Center Director, Los Angeles Job Corps Center ABOUT THE COVER Renowned artist, Synthia Saint James, unveiled her commissioned painting, “PowerFULL: YWCAGLA”, a celebration of the profound community impact that YWCA Greater Los Angeles makes daily, at the 2014 Phenomenal Woman Awards Luncheon. The painting is a lively YWCA Greater Los Angeles and colorful tapestry that conveys not only the diversity of the individuals Supervisor Gloria Molina greater los angeles and families that the YWCA Greater Community Empowerment Center 1020 S. Olive Street, 7th Floor Los Angeles serves, but also represents Los Angeles 90015 our four Signature Programs. Signed Tel: (213) 365-2991 Child Development Program Fax: (213) 365-9887 and limited edition prints are available for purchase and all proceeds benefit YWCA www.ywcagla.org Greater Los Angeles programs. page 2 | Celebrating 120 Years OF SERVICE TO THE COmmunity Year at A Glance 2013-2014 | www.ywcagla.org | page 3 CELEBRATING E A T E R L O S A A G R N G E L E S Y W C 1894-2015 This year we celebrate 120 Within this report, we highlight the achievements of this years of service to the last year – sharing stories of success, program action and community. For twelve impact, and changed lives. We share our emboldened decades, the YWCA Advocacy focus and the ground-breaking Domestic Human Greater Los Angeles Sex Trafficking Symposium. We celebrate the opening of our KATHY IRELAND has been a “Voice to the newest center which serves the Walnut Park neighborhood YWCA GREATER LOS ANGELES AMBASSADOR Voiceless” - boldly reaching – the Supervisor Gloria Molina Empowerment Center. We beyond the normal, share about friends and partners who have added their expected path of service to voices to ours – making us that much stronger. offer the most poignant and Even though times have changed drastically since our Dear Friends of YWCA Greater Los Angeles, effective programs. founders made that bold step to organize 120 years ago – The incredible accomplishments of the YWCA Greater Los Angeles and our CEO As we remember, I wonder one thread of commonality that remains is our backbone AND L and leader Faye Washington are humbling. This great organization and its what it must have been like of courage. We are driven to question the ills of society powerful advocacy changes lives every single day under the watchful eye of Ms. for those founding women with a collective voice, pushing for change and justice. Washington, who is a true force of nature and reminds each one of us to join in the and their 300 members The YWCA has stood the test of time through wars, political IRE battle of eliminating racism, empowering women and helping survivors to stand up in 1894 - if we could hear their passions and dreams, even unrest, economic growth, and depression. The organization Y and reclaim their voices. Too often we are overwhelmed by statistics. The numbers THE PRESIDENT & CEO their fears. These pioneers courageously set out to make life has been a beacon, a light throughout history. Our past is a of people in need are simply staggering. The reality is that each number represents better, more empowered for women and their families – and reminder that it takes courage and strength to change the M a human being who deserves an opportunity to live a better life. YWCA Greater Los that’s what they did. In 1913, the YWCA Los Angeles became future and address the needs of now. As we remember those Angeles makes those opportunities a reality. Please visit our campus and experience a forerunner in empowering foreign-born women through who have gone before us, we are humbled that we get to the differences that your caring is having on people. the “International Institute”. During World War II, YWCA of Los join their story, this movement. We will press on. We will KATH Angeles extended services and personnel to Japanese women continue breaking the mold and fighting for those who M The perseverance, the commitment to human rights for children, families, at-risk E FRO As ambassador for and families in ten Relocation Centers. Just three years later, are under served or disenfranchised. Join with us and be youth, seniors, survivors of sexual violence and human trafficking, all find help and G these leaders adopted the Interracial Charter at the YWCA a voice to the voiceless. safe spaces to live, learn and grow at YWCA Greater Los Angeles. convention - eight years before the Supreme Court’s decision YWCA Greater Los Angeles, on desegregation. We celebrate this history of courage that On behalf of YWCA Greater Los Angeles, we are so grateful for your investment dares to address the most pressing needs of women and Sincerely, E FRO of time and resources throughout the year. Thank you for continuing to give from It is exciting ESSA G families. the deepest part of your heart. M Over the last decade, the YWCA Greater Los Angeles has to contemplate their A accomplished forward-thinking solutions for the community. Faye Washington With love and appreciation, We have embraced a partnership concept that extends the ESSA 120 years of service best services possible to our constituents. Recent executive YWCA Greater Los Angeles President & CEO M business decisions have generated more than a 400% and imagine their increase in our physical assets. We pride ourselves as being A the architect of ideas and the developer of programs as we Kathy Ireland continue establishing an increased and robust response to YWCA Greater Los Angeles Ambassador limitless future. community needs. The Hollywood Studio Club The beginning 1913 1926 opened to house young women who were affiliated with the of our journey International Institute motion picture industry. An is established to average of 93 women lived work with foreign 1922 there at one time. Future born women. Mary Magnolia Residence is celebrity residents over the Andrews Clark operated by YWCA as years included: Marilyn Monroe, 1894 Memorial Residence Donna Reed, Kim Novak, Janet a dormitory for young is built at 3rd and Japanese women. Gaynor and Zasu Pitts. YWCA of Los Angeles organized Loma Drive. with 300 members. Classes offered in * Photo from bigorangelandmarks. cooking, languages, stenography and * Photo from the blogspot.com/ elocution. Dept of City Planning. page 4 | Celebrating 120 Years OF SERVICE TO THE COmmunity Year at A Glance 2013-2014 | www.ywcagla.org | page 5 SIGNATURE PROGRAMS at a glance CELEBRATING 24,260 38,660 24,600 IMPACTED IMPACTED IMPACTED 1894-2015 CHILD DEVELOPMENT sexual assault youth services/ Offers infant, toddler, and crisis services workforce preschool Child Development services at no cost or affordable Offers support and healing to development rates. The curriculum focuses on survivors of sexual assault and works to expand community Offers the following programs: enhancing each child’s cognitive • Career Training Academy processes and skills with particular awareness on issues resulting from sexual violence. • Los Angeles Jobs Corps attention to conceptual and • Afterschool Programs communication skills. • Youth Club Who We Serve: Services are free and available to those • Techgyrls Who We Serve: Qualifying 12 years of age and older. families with children age three Who We Serve: Youth of Los months to five years old and Angeles ages 10 to 21 and teenage mothers who attend individuals in need of career school at San Fernando High. services and support. ywca Hallmark Standards transforming lives 16,584 senior The YWCA Greater Los Angeles Signature IMPACTED engagement Programs have interwoven within them YWCA USA Hallmark standards in Racial Justice and Offers educational and Women’s Economic Empowerment. These support programs which standards allow YWCA Greater Los Angeles to building self-reliance focus on three main implement lessons learned from basic training areas: Social, Education, and Health/Fitness. and advanced
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