Young Women's Leadership Award 2009

YWCA of Minneapolis

The Center on Women and Public Policy congratulates the YWCA of Minneapolis, winner of the 2009 Hubert H. Humphrey School’s Young Women’s Leadership Award.

The YWCA of Minneapolis works to empower women and girls and eliminate racism.  The YWCA of Minneapolis cultivates the leadership of young women and demonstrates its deep commitment to young women’s leadership by:

welcoming young women to its Board of Directors as full voting members

assigning young women to key committee roles including chair

appointing young women to the senior leadership team

hiring young women in leadership positions throughout the organization

creating opportunities for girls of all ages to develop their leadership skills through community-based programs

empowering girls and women to work for race & gender equity in Minnesota

This award recognizes organizations that have made a demonstrated commitment to advancing the leadership of women ages 25-35 in Minnesota.  A committee of young women selected this year’s winner.  They all serve on non-profit boards as part of a Humphrey Institute, Center on Women and Public Policy course. 

“It was made clear to me that my voice and my opinion mattered,” Emily Saunoi-Sandgren, young woman board member, YWCA of Minneapolis