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YWCA Takes Advocacy on Women’s Homelessness to Ottawa

At the beginning of October, YWCA Cambridge joined YWCAs from across Canada in Ottawa for YWCA Canada’s annual Day on The Hill. This day is about harnessing the collective power of the YWCA movement to advocate at the federal level on issues impacting women, girls and gender diverse individuals. This

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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

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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

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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

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3 Key Reasons why your Role as a Donor is invaluable

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn 3 Key Reasons Why You Should Donate As a nonprofit organization, we rely on the generosity and compassion of individuals like you to ensure the continuity of our free programming. We want to emphasize just how vital your support is in allowing us to make a tangible

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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

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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

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