OWN IT

How would you celebrate your 150th birthday? This year, the YWCA USA is celebrating 150 years of empowering women and advocating for critical social issues across our great nation. As a part of its Sequicentennial celebration, the YWCA USA has launched the OWN IT campaign, which focuses on igniting a new generation of 22 million young women aged 18 to 34 to get involved with important issues facing women and the country today. This call to action focuses on many topics, including self-esteem and body image issues, HIV/AIDS, health care, quality childcare, gender equality and racial justice.

The YWCA of Charleston invites you join us, as well as millions of OWN IT women across America who are determined to take charge of their lives and communities, and make the world a safer and more just place for all people. Working together, we will transform communities across the country by exercising our collective power and energy to empower women and eliminate racism. Motivated by courageous women of the past who wouldn’t take NO for an answer, the YWCA invites us all to join in changing our world.

The YWCA of Charleston has joined this exciting movement of change, education and celebration. You can too! We choose to OWN the goals of economic empowerment, eliminating violence against women, and early childhood education, to name a few. What goal will you OWN?

The YWCA's new OWN IT website will keep you informed of OWN IT activities nationwide. They ask for our feedback and want to hear what we are doing in our own community. Find how you can OWN your power - and more! Plus watch the recently-released OWN IT video and see what issues other women across the country are owning.