515 North Street
White Plains, NY 10605
914 949 6227

Serving the greater Westchester  community.

Copyright 2005-2007 YWCA of White Plains and Central Westchester.

 

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Giving

Help support our program, scholarship and building funds!

For over 77 years, the YWCA of White Plains & Central Westchester has touched the lives of women and girls.  It began in a small way in 1929 with the formation of a girls club.  Next followed the purchase of a home rented out to women in need. Today, 185 women reside at the YWCA Residence and over 4,000 Westchester County residents are enriched each week by our array of programs from day care to gymnastics. Thousands of children participate in the YW’s child care, nursery, after school, teen, summer camp, aquatics and gymnastics programs.  Adults enjoy our fitness center and classes; they participate in parent/child activities as well as special lectures and events.

However, the YWCA is more than a fitness center, a swimming pool, and a classroom. It is a place where friends and families can learn and share experiences together. We are committed to advocating for and providing services that strengthen the health and well being of our community, especially for women and children in need. The YWCA offers:

* a broad diverse community
* youth programs
* a free place to talk for at-risk adolescents
* free and low-cost breast cancer screening
* an affordable residence for 185 low income women
* a safe place for visitation of children and their non-custodial parents
* support for abused women
* programs for people with developmental disabilities
* a nurturing learning environment

These programs and services are not simply recreational - many of them help save lives from teaching a child how to swim to providing critical health care screening.  It is a place where adolescent girls are encouraged to believe in themselves, teenage mothers are supported in their efforts to finish high school, and the developmentally disabled can train for the Special Olympics. The YW also provides one of the only affordable housing venue for women in White Plains. Without the YWCA, a majority of the women currently living at the Residence would be homeless.

We strive to keep all of programs affordable so that working parents have a place to send their children that is safe, fun and educational. The YWCA’s Annual Fund plays a critical role in helping us bridge the gap between revenue generated by fees and grants so that we can offer scholarships and waivers for families that cannot afford to attend otherwise and to support key mission based programs.

Program Fund: Supports ongoing and special program needs from supplies, books to special activities.

Scholarship Fund:  Tuition support for preschoolers and youth in our early childhood, after school, camp, swimming, gymnastics, and fitness programs.

Building Fund: For capital improvements to support classroom and general facility needs.
 

To make a gift to the YWCA of White Plains, contact L. Danielle Cylich, Director of Development at 914-949-6227 ext 147 or via email at dcylich@ywcawhiteplains.com.

Your gift can help change a life!

 

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Please consider a gift to the YWCA Scholarship Fund. With your help we can ensure that…

Nursery school parents, faced with major medical bills for one of their children, can still send all three of their preschoolers to the YWCA;

Sixty low-income children from the Lois Bronz Children’s Center have a chance to experience the joys of tumbling, and learn movement and poise in our gymnastics department;

A kindergartener can overcome her tremendous fear of the water, taking swim lessons in our after school classes and at our summer camp. (Today she is a third-grader and a level two swimmer—beginning to explore the deep end.)

Annual fund scholarship gifts strengthen YWCA programs and assure that we can maintain diversity in our classrooms from our summer camp to our child care center.

Your gift will give a young girl or boy a day of swimming, crafts, sports, nature and more. S/he will be surrounded by friends and caring staff and will create memories that will last forever.

Thank you for considering a gift to our Scholarship Fund. If your employer makes matching gifts, you can double fun for a young camper!

 

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