WOMEN S ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT

(Above) From learning to budget and improve credit to understanding the basics of starting a business, we help women build the skills they need for economic stability and growth.

At right, "Savings for Success" participants and their coaches, and below, our first YW Culinary class at their graduation.

...AND THE EDUCATION AND SUPPORT THEY NEED TO BE COMPETENT, CONFIDENT, AND EMPOWERED “Learning how to budget and save more of my money was liberating for me. It changed my life.”

A participant in our Basic Money Management class 

“We learned a lot as a family about how to manage our money and how important it is to plan for the future.” A participant in Savings for Success, our partnership with the Evanston Community Foundation that helps families save for their children’s postsecondary education through 529 plans 

“This class brought me to that happy place again, you know, you just want

to feel good about something, well that’s what it did for me. It just made me feel like, I can make a connection with people still. Sometimes when you go through a hard situation is just makes you feel lost within yourself, kind of like a failure. But taking this class has given me my confidence back. I’m really really thankful for the program. ” A participant in our culinary training program who lives at Bridges, our longerterm housing for domestic violence survivors. 