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Center for Racial and Gender Equity

The GIANT Company is a Founding Sponsor of the Center for Racial and Gender Equity

The Center for Racial & Gender Equity (CRGE) engages in education and advocacy to build community around our mission to eliminate racism and empower women to have equitable access to personal, community and professional opportunities, free from racial injustice.

Community Engagement

The Center for Racial and Gender Equity believes in building a Lancaster community that promotes equity and inclusion in multiple ways. Our community events are always free and open to the public.

Founding Sponsor:

Race Against Racism

Black Artist Waystation

Dorothy Height Social Justice Club

MLK Day

Women of Achievement

Community Now Series

Detoxing Masculinity

Women of Achievement

YWCA Lancaster seeks to recognize local extraordinary women who selflessly give of their time and energy to make our community a better place. This annual event recognizes and honors women who have demonstrated qualities of leadership and excellence in their personal and professional endeavors while supporting, embodying, and complementing YWCA Lancaster’s mission. *This is a fundraiser that supports the Center.

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Dorothy Height Social Justice Club

Our Dorothy Height Social Justice Club has a focus on diverse, thought-provoking writers and subjects.

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Detoxing Masculinity

“The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence towards women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves.” ~ bell hooks

Any male-identifying people are invited to join us to discuss and reflect with other male-identifying people about how we can best help dismantle sexism within ourselves and our community.

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Reclaiming Our Time

RECLAIMING OUR TIME is a collective space for the Black and Brown community hosted by the YWCA Lancaster’s Center for Racial and Gender Equity. This space recognizes the systemic inequities Black and Brown people endure while celebrating excellence and the unwavering ability to have joy. Together, this space will reclaim our time to gather, uplift, and mend as a people.

Community Now Series

A series of discussions to understand what is happening in our community now. Hosted by YWCA Lancaster in partnership with local agencies and leaders. We include a diversity of voices on current topics.

Learn about the whole series here.

Training & Education

The Center for Racial and Gender Equity pairs staff with a diverse, community–based team of trainers who are passionate about our mission. We infuse our training with best practices; current events and understandable frameworks that allow participants to find new meaning and shift paradigms to create an inclusive community.

Training & Education Sponsor:

Customized Training

We bring a deep commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, especially in facilitation and training. These customizable workshops are available for schools, businesses, houses of worship, and community organizations. Let us develop a program for you that helps you do the deep and sustained work of change to eliminate racism:

Anti-Racism/Anti-Sexism
Diversity, Equity &Inclusion
Discrimination/Harassment
Intersectionality
Policy Review/Consulting and Customized Trainings as requested

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Racial Equity Institute

This is an intensive, multi-day training that arms participants with a foundational analysis of the systemic and institutional power of racism. Participants come away with a common language and understanding to do the internal work needed to dismantle racism and to communicate with others about racism and its manifestations. Participants will also develop working tools to identify and address racism within their respective spheres of influence.

*Updated for COVID protocols.

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Listen, Learn and Lead

March 3 at 7 p.m: Bail and Pretrial Detention

Join us for our March Listen, Learn, and Lead: We will be joined by Michelle Batt of the Lancaster Bail Fund to learn about the the oppressive nature of pretrial detention and bail, and how bail funds can support unjust imprisonment. This interactive session will provide some action steps to restore the presumption of innocence and create an equitable system where everyone is afforded their constitutional rights.

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Racial Equity Institute

Listen, Learn and Lead

Research and Advocacy

The Center for Racial and Gender Equity listening, learning and leading as advocates for an equitable community.

We will seek to better understand how systemic problems show up in our local community and the history that led to these realities. We will act and coordinate the community work necessary in order to lead change.

In partnership with others we sponsor events, trainings and provide resources to broaden community knowledge of systemic issues. YWCA Lancaster Board of Directors selects public policy areas annually and they include:

YWCA Public Policy

Our public policy areas include:

Prevent gender-based violence and support survivors
Ensure health care for women, girls, and marginalized people
Eliminate policies and practices that criminalize people of color
Protect the rights and safety of marginalized communities
Equal pay & workplace fairness
Protect immigrant women, children, and families

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Community Engagement

Women of Achievement

Dorothy Height Social Justice Club

Detoxing Masculinity

Reclaiming Our Time

Community Now Series

Training & Education

Customized Training

Racial Equity Institute

Listen, Learn and Lead

Research and Advocacy

YWCA Public Policy

Jasmyne King (she/her) Director, Center for Racial and Gender Equity

Jasmyne King (she/her)
Director, Center for Racial and Gender Equity