Compiled by The Birmingham Times
These organizations support women in Birmingham and beyond by helping them overcome obstacles, achieve their goals and build better lives for themselves and their families.
Black Women’s Mental Health Institute
Black Women’s Mental Health Institute is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to building awareness of and support for the mental and holistic well-being of Black women and girls.
First Light
First Light provides women and children experiencing homelessness with stable emergency shelter, access to housing programs, and the resources needed for them to achieve their full potential. Dedicated to providing a safe and supportive environment for women and their children, First Light strives to meet the immediate needs of women and families while helping them build a foundation for long-term stability.
Jessie’s Place
Since opening in 1998 in downtown Birmingham, Jessie’s Place has been a refuge of peace and restoration where women and their children come to overcome life’s struggles. Jessie’s Place provides a holistic approach to healing from trauma, instability, and dangerous circumstances with its comprehensive, clinically structured residential program.
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Lovelady Center
The mission of the Lovelady Center is to help women rebuild their lives and walk forward with faith-driven hope for the future. The Lovelady Center provides essential services, life skills and spiritual guidance to teach each woman how to overcome barriers to success and to help break the cycle of poverty and incarceration.
Oasis Counseling for Women & Children
The mission of Oasis Counseling for Women and Children is to improve the quality of life for vulnerable women, children and families by providing exceptional, professional mental health care in a safe and nurturing environment.
Pathways
Pathways women and children’s shelter is dedicated to empowering women and children experiencing homelessness by providing comprehensive support services to help them achieve stability and self-sufficiency.
Women’s Foundation of Alabama
Women’s Foundation of Alabama is the leading voice and philanthropic engine for Alabama women, driving a mission of gender and economic equity through ground-breaking research, transformative grantmaking and legislative advocacy.
Women Under Construction Network
Women Under Construction Network is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to women, their children and elderly in underserved communities facing critical economic and provisional needs. Through lessons on power tools and home repair, women learn to rebuild their lives, too.
YWCA of Central Alabama
YWCA Central Alabama is on a mission to eliminate racism, empower women and promote peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all. YWCA advances the lives of women, children and families through counseling, job skills training, child care services, temporary housing assistance, domestic violence services and more.
Zonta Club of Birmingham
Zonta Club of Birmingham was chartered in 1940 by local women at the top of their professions who supported the goals of Zonta International, a leading global organization of professionals empowering women worldwide through service and advocacy. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, the organization has more than 30,000 members in 1,200+ clubs across 66 countries. Zonta International envisions a world in which women’s rights are recognized as human rights and women have access to needed resources, are represented in decision-making positions on an equal basis with men, live free of the fear of violence and are able to achieve their full potential.
