Hamilton Fempreneurs nearing membership of 4000 local women-owned businesses

It was just over a year that we announced a new partnership between the group we founded, the Hamilton Fempreneurs, with the YWCA Hamilton. We’ve seen huge growth in the group’s membership since then, topping 3,700 members recently. Hamilton Fempreneurs started four years ago as a way for three business-owning women to network with other local women and share our

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Will you walk a mile in her shoes? The Hamilton YWCA sure hopes so.

There’s an event in Hamilton that involves a lot of men (and women) parading around in red pumps, Hamilton Police horses arriving with bedazzled red hoofs, dance music to pump you up, and a walk around downtown led by samba drums. It’s the annual Walk a Mile in her Shoes Hamilton YWCA fundraiser happening on June 18, and it gets

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Hamilton’s fiercest entrepreneur and rare disease warrrior gets Women of Distinction nom

As one of Hamilton’s very successful entrepreneurs, Maureen Worron-Sauvé’s notable achievements make it clear why this city loves her, and why her nomination for the YWCA’s Women of Distinction awards is so well-deserved. Maureen is the co-founder of award-winning Core Urban, the Hamilton construction firm dedicated to community, restoring historic buildings with a focus on adaptive reuse and an eye

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Be the Recipe for Change

YWCA Be the Recipe for Change takes cooking classes to a whole new level. It’s a private culinary course with a social purpose. The goal of Be the Recipe for Change is to provide women living in their Transitional Living Program with healthy, delicious meals each evening. The YWCA Transitional Living Program is a 65 bed residence that provides temporary

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