Ways To Engage
YWCA IS ON A MISSION. JOIN US.
Since 1903, YWCA Spokane has been helping women and children overcome social, economic, and personal barriers in order to accomplish their goals and achieve healthier and more fulfilling lives. Today, areas of focus include supporting victims of intimate partner domestic violence, promoting early childhood education, and confronting racial and social justice issues that negatively impact our clients and our community.
Make A Difference By Engaging In One Of The Below Opportunities.
Each opportunity provides an inspiring way to support the work and mission of YWCA Spokane. We count on the support of friends like you to support our work and mission at YWCA Spokane. If you have any questions about ways to engage, please contact Erica Schreiber at ericas@ywcaspokane.org. Thank You!
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Women of Achievement Awards
As YWCA Spokane’s largest annual fundraiser, this special celebration honors the achievements of outstanding women in the Spokane community while also raising critical support for women, children, and families who are impacted by domestic violence, homelessness, and unemployment. Established with the goal of increasing community awareness and appreciation for the diverse contributions of women leaders in Spokane, this luncheon has honored more than 260 women in the region.
An Evening in Tuscany
This Tuscan inspired summer evening benefit for YWCA Spokane is held in July each year. Guests enjoy a fabulous scratch made Italian dinner, prepared by a local signature chef as well as indulge in a night of wine, art, entertainment, desserts and music that will make you feel like you were in Tuscany!
YWCA Mission Partners
The Mission Partners of YWCA Spokane are committed to bringing peace, justice, freedom, and dignity to our Spokane community, creating a foundation that allows for real and lasting change every day. Each Mission Partner invests a significant 3-year contribution that provides a lifeline for women and children through our work at YWCA Spokane. This critical financial support bridges the gap between the expenses we incur while serving clients and the grants we receive from state, local, and private parties.
Create Lasting Change As A Visionary Leader
Join a circle of leaders diligent in creating real and lasting change by making a commitment of donating $1000 or more this year ($84+mo.). These pioneers are supporting women and children when they need it most while creating opportunities for safety, healing, & education that support a new and brighter future. Become a Visionary Leader with a recurring monthly gift of $84+ or give a one-time donation online or by mail to YWCA Spokane, Attention: Visionary Leader Circle, 930 N Monroe St, Spokane, WA 99201. Your support will transform lives by helping YWCA Spokane meet the dynamic needs of families entering our doors who are experiencing domestic violence, homelessness, and unemployment.
Recurring Donor Impact Partner Circle
Consider joining YWCA Spokane’s community of Impact Partners by activating (or increasing) a monthly donation today. Your sustainable gift creates sustainable change in the lives of the thousands of women, children, and families we serve in Spokane each year. Activate a recurring gift online today or submit recurring monthly contributions by mail to YWCA Spokane, Attention: Impact Partner Community, 930 N Monroe St, Spokane, WA 99201. Monthly contribution at a level that aligns with your giving capacity is greatly appreciated. Even the smallest act of giving is like a drop of water making ripples throughout the entire pond.
YWCA Spokane Legacy Circle
YWCA Spokane’s Legacy Circle recognizes individuals who plan to make future gifts through their estates. Members of the YWCA Legacy Circle share a strong common bond of generosity and visionary leadership, supporting YWCA Spokane’s lifeline of critical programs and services for women and children impacted by domestic violence, homelessness, and unemployment. We welcome the opportunity to recognize those who are helping to make the future of those we serve possible.
Planned Giving & Alternative Ways To Give
When you include YWCA in your estate plan, you ensure that future generations of women, men, children and families experiencing crisis will find relief through our programs and services. In addition, there are many ways that you can give through non-cash assets while also benefiting from the tax-deductible gift to YWCA Spokane. Non-cash assets may include CDs, stock, real estate, life insurance, retirement accounts, art, and other collectibles.
Donation Wishlist & Drives
Help YWCA Spokane support our community by donating new or gently used wishlist items. Or consider conducting a donation drive at your place of work, church, club, or os social group. Amazon wishlists have been created to help make it easy. Donations can also be dropped off at 930 N Monroe St, Spokane, WA 99201 on Tuesdays between 10am-3pm. To make sure we keep the process safe for everyone, please make sure to drop off donations in plastic garbage bags. Direct questions to teresad@ywcaspokane.org.
Hope Stones Custom Jewelry
Twice a year, YWCA Spokane partners with Tracy Jewelers to host the sale of Hope Stones handmade jewelry items to benefit YWCA Spokane’s domestic violence safe shelter. Each item is handcrafted by women supported by YWCA Spokane. All supplies are provided by Tracy Jewelers. All proceeds from each sale go directly to support our domestic violence safe shelter.
Stories of Impact 
Our YWCA Spokane community is made up of amazing people, from our clients and staff to our donors, volunteers, supporters, and board members. Statements and stories illustrating the impact of our work at YWCA Spokane can connect these groups and promote justice and empowerment in our community by involving more people with our mission in action. Impact statements allow us to celebrate successes, bring attention to injustice, and connect supporters to our work. Stories of every length and depth have the power to shape the media narrative, influence legislatures, raise critical funds, and lift up our fellow community members.
Love The Shelter
YWCA Spokane is proud to share an inspiring campaign called “Love The Shelter” that will ensure life-lasting change and support for survivors fleeing domestic violence. Love the Shelter is an exciting opportunity to provide support to families staying in our confidential safe shelter over the next four years. Donors can sponsor one or more of the eleven rooms we need to furnish and design to support women and children escaping domestic violence.
Volunteer 
YWCA Spokane is happy to have your join us in whatever ways you can. There are many ways to get involved, whether it be volunteering, attending local events, or helping us spread the word to end the silence on domestic violence. Learn about all the ways you can make a difference
Racial & Social Justice Work
At YWCA Spokane, we see our mission of eliminating racism and empowering women as one mission, not two.
We believe in a community where all women, children, and families have a safe place to live. A place where women have the opportunity to earn a livable wage and families can live free from violence, in peace, and with dignity.
This vision is hollow if we ignore the compounded intersections of race, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity–and especially if we ignore the experiences of women of color, who have long been leaders in anti-racist and women’s rights movements. Racial and gender equity are inextricably linked. Statistics show us that women of color experience disproportionate rates of poverty, violence, physiological aggression, and mortality, as shared by the Status Of Women In The States. This is unacceptable.
We must work together to address systemic issues preventing safe and equitable access to peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all. Transformation is multilayered and takes place individually, through our relationships and collective cultures (e.g. neighborhood, organization), as well as at the level of structural society (public policies) supported by private actions.
Domestic Violence Training
In addition to our work responding to survivors of Intimate Partner Domestic Violence, YWCA Spokane is proud to offer training sessions for community members and organizations who would like learn more about domestic and intimate partner violence. Depending on your organization, size, and need, our Education & Outreach Advocate can customize a training session for you. We are also able to share information about our general services with groups, organizations, businesses, etc., as well as supply posters and brochures.
Equity For All & Advocacy
Each April, YWCA agencies across the nation host public events that engage in open and honest dialogue, with over 250,000 people, that confront stereotypes and biases, as a community. The goal of the annual event is to unite our community in a bold demonstration that delivers a clear message: we are on a mission to eliminate racism.
Each courageous conversation provides an opportunity to broaden perspectives, learn new tools, and connect with a diverse community of citizens passionate about eliminating racism in our community.
Racial Justice Challenge
The Racial Justice Challenge is the action component for the Until Justice Just Is campaign to help raise awareness of systemic racism and inform how each of us can take action to advance justice. Each year, YWCAs across the country come together to engage in this nationwide challenge.
As we move in a new direction, the name of our challenge has changed to the Racial Justice Challenge from the 21-Day Stand Against Racism (SAR) Challenge.
YWCA Spokane thanks and acknowledges Dr. Eddie Moore Jr., Debby Irving, and Dr. Marguerite Penick for their leadership in the field of racial equity as exhibited in their 21-Day Racial Equity and Habit Building Challenge, and the movement they helped to initiate. YWCA’s content is independently designed, written, and curated by YWCA staff as part of racial equity and social justice programs offered to the community.
From Survive To Thrive DV Educational Series
Domestic violence, or DV, is a community issue, impacting the lives of our friends, co-workers, and families. Chances are that someone in your circle of friends and family has or will be impacted by domestic violence.
In Spokane, we have the highest rate of domestic violence in Washington State with 1 in 3 women and 1 in 10 men impacted by domestic violence.
To address this devastating issue, we must come together, educate ourselves, and step into action. This educational series is designed to inspire real and lasting change in our community and in the lives of the thousands of women, children, and families we serve each year at YWCA Spokane.
Prevention At Home Video Series
YWCA Spokane staff have created a unique online engagement opportunity focused on increased community education and awareness surrounding issues related to intimate partner domestic violence, or IPDV. The 11-part video series presents engaging, educational content for individuals from any background or knowledge base.
The videos and blog posts also offers an opportunity to get to know YWCA Spokane advocates on a personal level; each contributor brings their own personality into their writing and presentation style. Each topic within the series has its own blog post, like this one, including a video. We hope you gain more knowledge, explore topics, and empower yourself and those around you to be in healthier, happier relationships. Thank you for taking the time to further your education, awareness, and understanding surrounding these critical issues.
Secure Your YWCA Merchandise Today
If you haven’t already had a chance to secure your Equity For all and YWCA Spokane apparel, drinkware, or yard sign, there is still time! Take a look at our brand new merchandise portal. Please share with friends and enjoy this fun way to show your support for our work and mission at YWCA Spokane.
Civic Engagement
Voting in location, state, and national elections as well as participating in other forms of civic engagement, such as filling out the Census, allows us, as ordinary citizens of the United States, to actively participate in our democratic government processes. This is a privilege, right, and responsibility that should not be overlooked or underestimated. When we all vote, when we will fill out the census, when we lift our voices collectively, we move toward a more representative democracy and a more just government that adequately represents and reflects the experiences and concerns of all of those in our country.
Teen Council
The Teen Council’s mission is to promote healthy relationships, to shift the culture around violence and to empower youth to become change leaders in their community through education, advocacy, and activism around teen dating violence.
YWCA Spokane values and respects the voices of our youth and is looking for teens who are interested in helping to shape how our community talks about dating abuse and works to foster healthy teen relationships through the efforts of our Teen Council. Supported by YWCA Prevention Coordinator, Lizbeth Reyes, this FREE, diverse, youth-led group will help make the community a safer, healthier place for young people in Spokane.
Healthy Relationships Prevention Team
YWCA Spokane Prevention Team was created with the goal of promoting a culture of respect and nonviolence with adolescent youth. Through 1-on-1 and group interactions we are able to cultivate opportunities to develop healthy relationships while preventing possible violent behaviors. We engage, educate, and empower youth to build up lives and communities free from domestic dating violence by offering safety tools and resources.
Transformations Camp
Transformations camp is an annual summer camp where young women (ages 11-15 years old) from the community gather in a safe environment to build confidence, identify their own strengths, and build healthy lasting relationships. The camp provides workshops on what to do when bullied, how to celebrate personal uniqueness, what a healthy relationship looks like, healthy discussions about body image, and how to resolve conflict.
MLK Jr Day Celebration & March
Each January, YWCA Spokane is proud to celebrate the life and accomplishments of Martin Luther King Jr. by joining the annual march, rally, and resource fair facilitated by the MLK Jr. Family Outreach Center. We hope you consider joining our staff and supporters as we listen to inspiring speakers and gather together in unity to honor this important day. To march with YWCA Spokane, gather next to the bronze Michael Anderson astronaut statue just prior to the march. Also, consider stopping by and say hello to us at YWCA Spokane’s booth in the resource fair following the rally and march. We would love to visit with you! This event is free and open to the public. Follow us and the MLK Jr. Family Outreach Center on social media for updates leading up to the event.
Women’s March
YWCA Spokane, along with YWCA agency’s across the nation, proudly support the annual Women’s March in January. The Women’s March is an opportunity for us to unite as a community and express our solidarity and commitment to the protection of the rights of all women. The Women’s March is a women-led movement bringing together people of all genders, ages, races, cultures, political affiliations, disabilities, and backgrounds to affirm our shared humanity and to stand in solidarity for social justice, racial equity, and women’s rights. Local marches take place in cities all around the nation and world. Please consider joining YWCA Spokane each January as we gather and march together with other local agencies, individuals, and businesses for peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all. Please follow us on social media to receive updates about the next Women’s March. Through unification and inclusion, we, as a community, will light a fire of change. In solidarity, we will make a difference! Hear our voice!
Spokane PRIDE 
Each year in June, the Spokane community comes together to celebrate LGBTQ+ liberation during national PRIDE month. PRIDE is an annual celebration that honors the brave individuals who fought back against police raids in 1969 at the Stonewall Inn in New York. Our team at YWCA Spokane is excited to participate in the parade and celebration as well as the annual resource fair. Make sure to follow us on social media for updates about next year’s celebration. In 2021, YWCA was proud to join the celebration with a special contribution for our team at YWCA Spokane!
Domestic Violence Action Month
Each October, YWCA Spokane looks to increase awareness about domestic violence in our community, inspire action from individuals and businesses, and raise critical funds in support of the survivors we serve. Spokane has the highest rates of domestic violence than the state average. In order to address this devastating issue, it will take our entire community to engage, step into action, and make a difference. Join this growing movement.
Hope For The Holidays 
Every November, our staff at YWCA Spokane is excited to bring back our Hope For The Holidays campaign. Community members are provided with a chance to make this season a little brighter for YWCA clients who are impacted by domestic violence, homelessness, and unemployment by adopting one of our family’s holiday wish lists.
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