We Help Young Women of Fort Worth Envision a Limitless Future
Our programs enhance academic achievement and offer leadership opportunities that promote success for every student at Young Women's Leadership Academy (YWLA).
Invest in our Girls
Invest in our Community
Today's YWLA students are tomorrow's leaders. Investing in our students ensures they are prepared to lead our community into a brighter future.
Break Down Barriers
and Build Futures
The Foundation works with organizations and individual donors to create opportunities for the students and then helps the students take advantage of them.
Support a
Proven Program
Be a part of the success. All graduating classes at YWLA have a remarkable 100% graduation rate and 100% acceptance into a four-year college or university.
“The Foundation of the Young Women’s Leadership Academy is helping ignite vision and provide opportunities for young girls of Fort Worth. It’s rewarding to know that my financial support can send a student on a college tour so she and her family can envision what her life will be like. Or help another compete at the Robotics championship and change her life’s educational and personal trajectory. We step into magic when we step into partnership with the YWLA Foundation. The students are bright and brilliant, but they need our community to stand behind them. Truly, people should be knocking at the door to support this foundation financially. ”
Let’s Make an Impact
Individuals and organizations have so much to offer the students of YWLA.
Schedule a Tour
Experiencing YWLA is transformational. Come meet the Foundation, the students, and the school.
Donate Resources
From ongoing donations to supporting our signature events, the Foundation has a variety of opportunities and programs where you can make a significant impact.
Be a Resource
As a community partner you can provide the students and alumni with exciting opportunities like internships, connections, and more.
Your Partnership Can Influence Generations
Your story is unique and includes challenges and triumphs alike. It’s likely someone helped you develop a vision for the future, and you learned to find success. Partnering with the Foundation for the Young Women’s Leadership Academy is a way to light the path forward for others.
Your Support Can:
Support students from YWLA in the STEM and visual arts pathways with programs like sending students to universities with prestigious art and graphic design programs or sending the robotics team, The Dork Side, to a world championship competition, and so much more.
Fund a college dream-maker tour allowing a student and her parent to explore a university where she has been accepted so she and her parent can envision her future and make a well-informed decision.
Support one Alumni Networking Event, where members of the previous graduating classes gather to connect with each other while meeting and networking with savvy, local businessmen and women like you.
Pay for a local college trip so students can see and feel a college campus and make an informed decision about their college choice.
Support can prepare students for her high stakes college admissions test.
It's a reality that the professional landscape is still predominantly male-centered. However, this is changing, and the Foundation, YWLA, and our students are a part of this transformation. When we work together, we help pave the way for our students to be successful in school and life, and one day be the leaders our community needs. Join us.
“I knew of college but didn’t think I would attend college. Now it’s my go-to choice.”
Kyla Mathis | YWLA Class of 2023
“When I saw YWLA, I saw myself. People supported me, and I want to be that for these girls.”
Deborah Ferguson | NBC5 – KXAS
“The foundation gave me an incredible opportunity with an internship. Now it’s what I want to do.”
Alexandra Ordaz | YWLA Class of 2023
Your Support in Action
Hear firsthand from our students about your impact.
