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Young Women's Christian Association of the United States of America

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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
Economic and Social:
  • Business and Industry
  • Children
  • Criminal Justice
  • Economics and Finance
  • Education
  • Extreme poverty
  • Family
  • Habitat
  • Human Rights
  • Humanitarian Affairs
  • Information
  • Justice
  • Minority Rights
  • Social Development
  • Values
  • Violence
  • Volunteerism
  • Women
  • Women/gender Equality
  • Youth

    • Gender Issues and Advancement of Women:
  • Advocacy and outreach
  • Capacity building
  • Education and training of women
  • Human rights of women
  • Indigenous women
  • Policy advice
  • The girl child
  • Trafficking in women and girls
  • Violence against women
  • Women and HIV/AIDS
  • Women and armed conflict
  • Women and health
  • Women and poverty
  • Women and the economy
  • Women and the environment
  • Women and the media
  • Women and the media
  • Women in power and decision-making

    • Social Development:
  • Aging
  • Conflict
  • Cooperative
  • Disabled persons
  • Employment
  • Indigenous issues
  • Information and Communications Technologies
  • Poverty
  • Social policy
  • Technical cooperation
  • Youth

    • Statistics:
  • Civil registration systems
  • Crime and criminal justice statistics
  • Demographic and social surveys
  • Household Statistics
  • Official statistics, principles and practices
  • Poverty statistics
  • Services Statistics
  • Social Statistics and Social Monitoring

    • Sustainable Development:
  • Capacity-building
  • Gender equality
  • Health
  • Poverty
    • Geographic scope: National
    Country of activity:
  • United States of America
    • Millennium Development Goals:
  • Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
  • Promote gender equality and empower women
    • Mission statement:
    Year established:
    Year of registration: 1907
    Organizational structure: YWCA USA is a not-for-profit corporation with membership including Local Associations and Regional Councils. The YWCA board of directors, known as the National Coordinating Board, whose members are elected by the Local Associations, will have overall management responsibility for the YWCA.
    Number and type of members: 243 - Local YWCAs
    Funding structure:
  • Membership fees or dues
  • Fundraising campaigns
  • Funds from other Non-Governmental Organizations
  • Donations and grants from domestic sources
  • Grants from Governments
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