This #GivingTuesday and Year-End Giving Season your gifts empower YWCA Southern Arizona's mission to eliminate racism, empower women, and promote peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.

2020 has been a difficult year for everyone, but it has disproportionately impacted working mothers who have been forced to make impossible decisions to support their families. At the beginning of this global health crisis, we adjusted our services to best support the changing needs of our community. After surveying our clients, we found that an overwhelming majority of them needed immediate food, financial, and emotional support. The extended closing of schools, sustained lack of economic activity, and restrictions on hours of operation in the workplace have an adverse effect on the ability of women employed in low-wage positions to survive financially.

When you give to YWCA of Southern Arizona you support our programs working to fulfill the needs of working mothers in our community. This is some of the new work we engaged in this past year:

Helped small-business owners adapt to nationwide safety precautions and move their business services online as well as access federal resources.
Delivered critical resources and counseling to women and families to address and prevent domestic violence through our Women's Counseling Network and Promotoras Program
Acquired Pima County Teen Court program that works towards our mission of eliminating racism with restorative justice approaches to ending mass incarceration.
Partnered with other local organizations to provide free mammogram screenings, COVID-19 tests, and Flu Shots.
Began administering the City of Tucson CARES act funding in grants to small businesses and survivors of domestic violence to provide financial resources directly to our community during this challenging year.
Engaged in voter education and outreach to over 10,000 moms during this historic election.
Shifted our regular workforce development, wellness, entrepreneurship, and professional classes online to ensure continued and increased access.
Welcomed the SBA Madam Administrator Jovita Carranza in her visit to Tucson and facilitated a conversation with local business owners and the SBA staff to better understand currently available resources and how they can better meet their needs.
Shifted weekly in-person gatherings in our Las Comadritas programming for elders to weekly phone calls. We also distributed care baskets and meals to the elders to reduce loneliness and improve wellbeing.

The work we are doing is more important now than ever before and we cannot do it without you. This Giving Season will you Stand With Us and make a gift to support the women and families that we serve? Standing together, we can eliminate racism, empower women, and build a world that works for everyone. Your gift creates change. Together we heal, join us to give back.

P.S. Gifts to YWCA qualify for the Arizona Charitable Tax Credit. Your gift to YWCA can reduce your tax bill by up to $400 (per individual) and $800 (per couple). Our QCO Code is 20570. The COVID-19 CARES relief bill passed on March 2020 also allows taxpayers to claim a $300 deduction for charitable donations made in 2020! This relief bill allows taxpayers to claim the deduction without having to itemize on your 2020 tax return.

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