{"id":88,"date":"2018-05-03T18:43:47","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T18:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ywcamclean.48in48sites.org\/?page_id=88"},"modified":"2021-06-21T21:46:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T21:46:04","slug":"advocacy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ywcamclean.org\/how-to-help\/advocacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Advocacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>\n\t\tAdvocacy\n\t<\/h2>\n\t<p>Social Action and Advocacy are the cornerstones of YWCA. Since our inception almost 150 years ago, &#8220;service&#8221; has been linked to &#8220;action.&#8221;\u00a0 In communities across the United States, YWCAs continue to work to improve social and economic conditions for all people. As the nation&#8217;s oldest and largest national movement, YWCA is comprised of over 300 local associations, regional leadership and a national office in Washington D.C. &#8211;\u00a0 who all work together, across the nation to strengthen our voices in the nation&#8217;s capital and in state and local governments.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ywcamclean.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/power.jpg\" alt=\"power\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"323\" width=\"470\" title=\"power\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t<p>YWCA brings firsthand knowledge of how federal-level policies and programs affect women, girls and their families in communities across the country. Historically, YWCA has fought for issues such as the abolition of child labor, the 8-hour workday and desegregation.<\/p>\n<p>Today, YWCA carries on their long tradition in social action and advocacy to meet the twin goals of women and girl&#8217;s empowerment and racial justice.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advocacy Social Action and Advocacy are the cornerstones of YWCA. Since our inception almost 150 years ago, &#8220;service&#8221; has been linked to &#8220;action.&#8221;\u00a0 In communities across the United States, YWCAs&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":58,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywcamclean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywcamclean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywcamclean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywcamclean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywcamclean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywcamclean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3511,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywcamclean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88\/revisions\/3511"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywcamclean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywcamclean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}