National Campaigns
YWCA is on a mission to eliminate racism and empower women, and our annual national campaigns are crucial to realizing our mission by creating awareness around racial and gender justice issues and engaging our YWCA network and partners in this work. Annually, we hold the following campaigns: Until Justice Just Is (UJJI), YWomenVote, and Week Without Violence. Read more below about each of our signature campaigns and how you can get involved.
Until Justice Just Is
YWCA is on a mission to eliminate racism and empower women. Because we know that we cannot empower all women without confronting systemic racism, we act every day by raising awareness of the impacts of institutional and structural racism and by building community among those who work for racial justice. Since 2015, we have invited and inspired countless activists, advocates, and allies to join us in the movement to eliminate racism through our annual Until Justice Just Is campaign (formerly known as Stand Against Racism).
YWCA Racial Justice Challenge
YWCA is excited to announce the launch of 2025 YWCA Racial Justice Challenge, to begin on March 31, 2025. The YWCA Racial Justice Challenge is the action component of the Until Justice Just Is campaign, which runs throughout the month of April to raise awareness of systemic racism and how each of us can take action to advance justice
Week Without Violence
Week Without Violence is part of a global movement with YWCAs across the country and around the world to end violence against women and girls. At YWCA, we know that not all violence is acknowledged or responded to equally and that some victims go unrecognized altogether. That’s why, since 1995, YWCA has set aside one week in October as a Week Without Violence to raise awareness, elevate survivor voices, talk with policymakers, and more with a common goal: centering survivors so that together, we can end gender-based violence.
Join us for our 2025 Week Without Violence campaign.
YWomenVote
Women, particularly young women of color, are critical voices and movement-makers when it comes to driving social and policy change. Each year, when we field our national survey, YWomenVote, we center those voices and the voices of women at large to better understand the concerns of our communities and the policies they’d like to see to address them. From quality, affordable child care to preventing intimate partner violence, from access to abortion to voting rights, and so much more, we know we must understand what women need to build a better world for us all and to meet our mission to eliminate racism and empower women.