Your YWCA in Greater Cincinnati
Our Mission
The YWCA is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
JOIN US in our mission to promote economic equality, prevent violence, ensure safety and end discrimination. Our work is more important now than ever, and we rely on our community of allies to join our effort.
Learn more our advocacy efforts that directly advance our mission and vision, and clearly promotes our three signature platforms: Racial Justice & Civil Rights, Safety of Women and Girls, Empowerment & Economic Advancement of Women & Girls. Advocacy plan
Our Values
YWCA Greater Cincinnati collaboratively identified the core values that drive our work and connect us to the community and one another.
Passion for Our Mission
Modeling Our Mission
Shared Leadership and Collaboration
Servant Leadership
Honesty and Transparency
Equitable and Compassionate
Respect for All
Kindness
Assuming Positive Intent
Hard Work and Diligence
Commitment to Quality
Joyful Spirit
Courage
Our Legacy
YWCA is the oldest and largest multicultural women’s organization in the world and has been at the forefront of most of the pressing social movements for more than 150 years.
Affordable Housing
Civil Rights
Pay Equity
Violence Prevention
Health Care Reform
Voting Rights
Learn More about our history
Greater Cincinnati Chapter
Founded in 1868 as the fifth YWCA association in the United States the YWCA has always tackled women’s issues.
At its inception, YWCA championed initiatives including a women’s employment bureau, minimum wage, protective labor laws, women’s suffrage, and job training for women. YWCA Greater Cincinnati was at the forefront of racial justice advocacy, establishing the first integrated cafeteria where interracial groups
could eat in the 1950s.
Since the 1970s, YWCA has provided services to victims of intimate partner violence and their children. The organization strives to build a coordinated community effort to provide the most comprehensive approach to prevention and intervention of intimate partner violence in the Greater Cincinnati area.