Join us for a festive, socially distanced Winter Wonderland event to get you and your family ready for the holidays! With music, food, a photo booth, and a visit from Santa, there will be fun for everyone.
YWCA South Florida is also organizing a Holiday Toy Drive to help our families and communities celebrate this year. If you would like to participate in the Toy Drive, please register and let us know how many are in your family.
A special thank you to It’s4TheKids Foundation for helping us collect the holiday toys we need to serve our community. With their help, we can reach more families and more children.
When
Saturday, December 11, 2021
11:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Where
Intergenerational Center
3450 NW 199th St.
Miami Gardens, FL 33056
If you would like to help over 600 YWCA South Florida children in our community, you can donate to our Holiday Toy Drive this season. We are looking for age and content-appropriate gifts for girls and boys ages 0-15. Drop off your new, unwrapped toys at our Marta Sutton Weeks Center in Overtown now through December 6.
Or shop from the comfort of your home using our Amazon Wishlist. Simply add the item you wish to purchase to your Amazon cart and ship to our Overtown center address below.
Marta Sutton Weeks Center
351 NW 5th St.
Miami, FL 33128
(305) 377-9922
9:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Attn: Stephanie Cota
Thank you to our sponsors!
If you gave dollars, we thank you!
If you gave resources, we thank you!
If you shared the opportunity with your networks, we thank you!
Learn more about @ywcasouthfl and the different ways you can support our mission beyond #GivingTuesday: ywcasouthflorida.org
#EverythingForHER #EconomicEquity #HolidayToyDrive
@YWCAUSA recently held a two-day virtual women’s economic empowerment summit designed to encourage and inspire women and people of color to level up their business. With two hundred of the sharpest minds competing in the virtual pitch competition, YWCA South Florida's WE 360 alumni won FOUR of the top prizes - more finalists than any other chapter in the nation!
A huge CONGRATULATIONS to:
2nd Place: Michelle Singh | LCT-E Learning Solutions | YWCA, South Florida | $12,000
Runner-Up: Christina Duren | Beautiful Brown Girls| YWCA South Florida | $5,000
Finalist: Elaine Ramos (not pictured) | IS Insurance Specialists | YWCA South Florida
Finalist: Sherice Franklin | Sherie Renell | YWCA South Florida
Please give them a round of applause in the comments!
#YWCALevelUpSummit #WCW #EverthingForHER #EmpoweringWomen
Congratulations to YWCA South Florida CEO, Kerry-Ann Royes for being honored as one of the 2022 "In The Company Of Women Award" recipients!
Presented in partnership with Miami-Dade County Parks, Recreation and Open Spaces, the Miami-Dade Commission for Women, and the Parks Foundation of Miami-Dade, the In the Company of Women awards honors women who have excelled professionally and civically, and have contributed to women’s progress, through their leadership and vision.
Awards will be given out at the 33rd Annual In the Company of Women Awards Ceremony on Thursday, March 10, 2022 at the Coral Gables Country Club, in honor of International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month.
For today's #TakeActionTuesday, Host, Matisse Ventura Bruer chatted with special guest Chantay Moore, Director of Native American Financial Literacy Services.
Native American Financial Literacy Services is a Native American (Navajo) and woman-owned small business. NAFLS financially educates and empowers their members with expert financial education provided by their team of Native Financial Professionals
Watch till the end to learn more about Financial Literacy programming at YWCA South Florida!
#NativeAmeicanHeritageMonth
Itʼs #GivingTuesday! Here are some ways to support @YWCASouthFL and our work today:
🎁 Donate to our #GivingTuesday campaign, so we can provide holiday gifts for our preschoolers!
✍️ Sign up to volunteer
🧡 Share this post with your friends, families, and networks and encourage them to donate
➡️ https://bit.ly/YWCAsouthflDonate LINK IN BIO!
#TakeActionTuesday returns Nov. 30th at 12:30pm! Host, Matisse Ventura Bruer will be chatting with special guest Chantay Moore, Director of Native American Financial Literacy Services.
Native American Financial Literacy Services is a Native American (Navajo) and woman-owned small business. NAFLS financially educates and empowers their members with expert financial education provided by their team of Native Financial Professionals.
#NativeAmeicanHeritageMonth
🧡 #GivingTuesday is November 30th! The holidays are filled with happiness, family, and friends. Children especially look forward to family festivities and the opening of presents.
🎁 Help the world come together through generosity by spreading love and joy to 250 preschoolers of working moms who are part of our YWCA family this holiday season!
To make your donation, please visit the link in our bio.
November 26th is #NativeAmericanHeritageDay. It was established to honor Native Americans as the first people of this nation and to celebrate their heritage.
In Florida we live on the ancestral land of many indigenous tribes that inhabited the land for thousands of years. We invite you to learn more about Florida's first peoples and the land you live on.
Explore this interact map from Canadian non-profit, Native Land Digital.
Native Land Digital strives to create and foster conversations about the history of colonialism, Indigenous ways of knowing, and settler-Indigenous relations, through educational resources such as their map and Territory Acknowledgement Guide: [LINK IN BIO]
There are so many things we are thankful for this year, but at the very top of that list is YOU. Without you, we would not be able to do what we do – being a leading voice for women, girls, and all marginalized individuals across South Florida.
We wish you, your family, friends, and loved ones a Happy #Thanksgiving!
If you plan on getting some great online deals #BlackFriday and #CyberMonday, remember to shop with AmazonSmile.
Same prices, same shipping, but when you shop with Amazon Smile, 0.5% can go directly to YWCA South Florida. It's one of the easiest way to support during the holidays!
🎁 Thank You!
🧡 Giving Tuesday is fast approaching this Tuesday, November 30th. This #GivingTuesday, Give The Gift Of Holiday Cheer!
🌟 The holidays are filled with happiness, family, and friends. Children especially look forward to family festivities and the opening of presents.
🎁 Help the world come together through generosity by spreading love and joy to 250 preschoolers of working moms who are part of our YWCA family this holiday season!
Visit the link in our Bio!
Interview with Deborah Harbour, Center Services Director. Take Action Tuesday! Know anyone in Miami-Dade with a 3-5 year old in need of high quality childcare?
Call us at 305.377.9922 to learn more!
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#takeactiontuesday #ywca #downtownmiami
Don't miss today's #TakeActionTuesday at 12:30pm! Host, Matisse Bruer will be talking with Debbie Harbour, YWCA's Center Service Director.
They will be discussing YWCA South Florida's Head Start, Early Head Start, VPK, and School Readiness programs.
Tune via IG Live. Visit our Stories to set a reminder! ⏰
We are excited to announce, YWCA South Florida has received a $50,000 grant from the Simply Healthcare Foundation to advance our mission. The grant will go directly toward YWCA’S Women’s Equity Success Fund, which includes our Economic Prosperity programs, such as job training, financial literacy, salary negotiation, and leadership development which serve hundreds of women in South Florida.
Holly Prince, President of Simply Healthcare, said the foundation is happy to help drive YWCA’s efforts.“Being healthy is more than having access to healthcare,” she said. “It’s about other factors including access to nutritious food, transportation, stable housing, and career opportunities. We are proud to work with YWCA to address these drivers of health and promote health equity in our community.”
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#EverythingForHER #Health #Equity #Resources
And that's it! Another magical #GiveMiamiDay has hit the record books.
At $53,500, with our matching gifts, we have officially beat last year's total, and set another organizational milestone for most money raised on Give Miami Day 🎉<insert airhorn>
THANK YOU to everyone who donated, fundraised (hey Champions!), and spread the word thru social media, email, text, and calls - we appreciate you!
This was a team effort and a COMMUNITY Win!
Let's continue our mission to do #EverythingForHER, together.
We are in the final 2 hours of #GiveMiamiDay and we are still pushing hard.
We are humbled by your support. THANK YOU CHAMPIONS!
Let's wrap this up and put this money to work.
LINK TO GIVE IN OUR BIO 🧡
Hey Hey Hey - The after-dinner crowd has brought the HEAT! We are less than $17k from breaking last year's record! #GiveMiamiDay is breaking records all around - help us to break ours too!
Who is bring the dessert and cafecitos? ☕ Only 3 more hours to go!
Make history with us: LINK IN BIO
#EverythingForHER #Health #Equity #Resources
They say you miss 100% of the shots you don't shoot - so we are just going to put this out there:
A $10,000 gift could provide access to our Community Engagement & Personal Advocacy program, the 21-Day Challenge, to non-English speaking communities in their native language. We want to make sure everyone has access to this essential tool for positive change!
🏀https://bit.ly/gmd21ywca
#GiveMiamiDay #EverythingForHER #Health #Equity #Resources
YWCA South Florida's WE360 program is designed to provide women of color with the educational tools to increase their knowledge and confidence as entrepreneurs.
Check out what one of our many graduates had to say:
“I loved the YWCA South Florida’s WE360° program and process! The trainer was excellent! I can still hear her saying “What is your Unique value proposition?” Since joining in July, WE360° helped me become much more polished and ready to go out and ask for donations and grants which will help my business succeed.”
- Arleen Lambert: CEO & Founder of Early Education Link
Make your donation during #GiveMiamiDay, and increase your impact with matching funds from The Miami Foundation and our own private donors!
Visit the link in our bio!
#EverythingForHER #Health #Equity #Resources
Wow - we have to keep making the font smaller - because more people keep giving!
🧡WE ARE SO GRATEFUL FOR YOUR SUPPORT 🧡
Let's make the next Thank You list two pages long - deal? ☑️
Here's how we get there: https://bit.ly/gmd21ywca
This is the homestretch, South Florida!
#EverythingForHER #GiveMiamiDay