A brief post today to introduce the project charter. In order to hold ourselves accountable and to be transparent to our community, a project charter was drafted for this two year project. Included is a purpose statement and goals, activity timeline, communication strategies, resource descriptions, and other guiding information. This document will be iterative as we go throughout the project and may change as we learn and adapt. You can read the project charter [here] and can refer back to it on the [documentation] page at any time.

by Maida Goodwin

The Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) is a world-wide movement which aims to develop the leadership of women and girls to achieve human rights, health security, dignity, freedom, justice, and peace for all people. The U.S. National YWCA was established in 1906 to facilitate formulation of an overarching national program and policies for local YWCAs spread around the country. It was not a hierarchy directed from above, but a participatory democracy whose programs and policies were determined by the membership and officially adopted at Conventions called every two or three years. The National Board of Directors, described as “servant and prophet of the local YWCA,” worked with a myriad of committees and an extremely dedicated National Staff to devise ways to “put Convention actions into living form.” Continue reading →