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The YWCA Women’s Leadership Institute offers a comprehensive leadership development training curriculum and corresponding programs designed to build, train, recognize and empower transformative women leaders at all phases of their careers. Registration is open for the fall 2018 sessions of Boot Camp and Quest! Boot Camp is designed for high potential individual contributors and Quest… Continue Reading Transform your Career with the Women’s Leadership Institute!

Story By Shari Nacson Photos by Gabe Schaffer (Click HERE for full article from 500 Pens) “The work is amazing,” said Margaret Mitchell, CEO of the YWCA of Greater Cleveland. “It lives, both on the individual level and also on the institutional level. Both things have to be at play.” To date, over 1200 people… Continue Reading ‘No Easy Fix’ When It Comes to Tackling Unconscious Bias

Cleveland Leadership Center presents We are Cleveland: Leading for Change, a day-long conference on August 16, 2018, that inspires individuals to have greater impact on improving life in Cleveland and Northeast Ohio, and provides them with tools to make a difference. YWCA Greater Cleveland is proud to be a community partner for one of the… Continue Reading We Are Cleveland: Leading For Change

Seventy percent of the children who go home from YWCA’s five-star pre-school, housed at its headquarters on Prospect Avenue in Cleveland, will sleep in a shelter at night. But during the school day, those fifty 3-to-5-year-old children are in a learning environment that is enriched with degreed educators supporting them in an Early Childhood Mental… Continue Reading It Starts Early

Madison Residency Artist Elizabeth Emery, who is locally based here in Cleveland, needs your help reaching young girls and women 10-110 years of age. Her project, Hear Her Glenville, will provide the opportunity for young girls to tell their story about their athletic aspirations, and women that are fit and active to share the experiences… Continue Reading Hear Her Sports Glenville Podcast

Cleveland, OH (January 4th, 2018) – (YWCA Greater Cleveland) In commemoration of the YWCA’s 150th year of operation in Greater Cleveland four distinguished women leaders whom have previously been presented with the Woman of Achievement Award, were elevated to Lifetime Woman of Achievement status at the YWCA’s annual luncheon on April 30th, 2018. They will… Continue Reading Meet Our 2018 Lifetime Women of Achievement

Margaret Mitchell, the president and CEO of the YWCA Greater Cleveland, said the management of the shelter is an “important step forward” for the organization. For the last seven years the YWCA has been working to find and maintain housing for youth aging out of foster care. “We want our staff to take a fresh approach… Continue Reading YWCA Greater Cleveland Selected to Operate Norma Herr Women’s Center

Norma Herr Women’s Center was not named after a wealthy donor or a local public figure. The shelter on Payne Avenue was named after one of its residents. Norma Herr began her life as a piano prodigy who was on track to perform at the highest level. She was also a wife and mother before… Continue Reading Who is Norma Herr?