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Executive Summary – Women’s Homelessness in Cambridge: Knowledge Sharing and Interventions

The following is the executive summary of  a newly-release research report by YWCA Cambridge. The full report can be read here. Historically, women’s homelessness in Cambridge has been largely unacknowledged and therefore inadequately understood and addressed. This research paper aims to shed light and bring urgent change to the issue.  This research builds off the […]

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Why I’ve ‘Walked A Mile In Their Shoes’ for 11 Years – Guest blog by Walk A Mile in Their Shoes participant Joe Lethbridge

Be it sunny, cloudy or rainy, I will be back again this year and every year to support YWCA Cambridge and their vital programming aimed at deterring gender-based violence before it happens and getting the word out about the prevalence of gender-based violence.

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Galt staple, WIGG, returns with a pop-up shop this September

CAMBRIDGE – A favourite women’s apparel and accessory boutique which closed its brick and mortar shop in March 2023 will return to Galt for a three-day pop-up shop featuring appearances by style icon, Lynn Spence. Women’s International Gift & Gallery – or, WIGG – a social enterprise operated by YWCA Cambridge which closed the doors

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YWCA Cambridge Ready to Lace Up For 14th Annual Walk A Mile Fundraiser

YWCA Cambridge’s annual walk to end gender-based violence (GBV) returns for its fourteenth run Saturday, October 14 in downtown Galt.

Walk A Mile in Their Shoes is a walk to raise awareness of and end gender-based violence by raising funds to support YWCA Cambridge’s free violence prevention programming with girls and gender diverse youth across Waterloo Region.

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OTF Grant Enables YWCA Cambridge to Think Bigger

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn $124,200 OTF Grant Enables YWCA Cambridge to Think Bigger Cambridge, ON – On August 8,  Cambridge MPP Brian Riddell met with YWCA Cambridge staff and leadership to learn more about the $124,200 Resilient Communities grant awarded to the organization by the Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) that was used to reinvigorate YWCA Cambridge’s

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Reflections on YWCA Canada’s 131st Annual Members Meeting

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn May 2023 marked the 131st YWCA Canada Annual Members Meeting, this year held in Waskesiu Lake, Saskatchewan, and hosted by YWCA Prince Albert. YWCA Cambridge was able to send four delegates: our board chair, Norma McDonald Ewing, CEO, Kim Decker, Director of Philanthropy, Nataleigh Ballantyne and Director of Communications and Advocacy, Roz

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Eight Women to be Recognized by the 2023 Women of Distinction Awards

8 Women to be recognized by YWCA Cambridge Women of Distintion Awards 2023 YWCA Cambridge is thrilled to announce the eight recipients of the 2023 Women of Distinction awards: Rebecca Dickinson Rebecca Dickinson is part of the Women Impacting and Influencing Technology (WIIT) committee at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada- a business partner group that focuses

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