3 Causes the Y Hopes Will Attract New Members and New Money
April 21, 2014 | Read Time: 1 minute
Healthy Living
The Y provides exercise and cooking classes and programs that seek to prevent chronic diseases. It urges communities to spread farmers’ markets and build pedestrian walkways to encourage exercise. It has developed a Community Healthy Living Index that measures such things as the number of fast-food restaurants, produce stands, bicycle paths, and hours devoted to exercise in schools.
Social Responsibility
The Y promotes food banks, volunteering, and advocacy at the local, state, and federal levels. Local affiliates offer after-school meals, adult literacy classes, and training for high-school equivalency tests.
Photo: YMCA of Greater Boston
Youth Development
As it has for decades, the Y provides summer camps for children. It also offers leadership-training courses, programs that match minority children with professional mentors, and mock government exercises for students.
Photo: YMCA Missoula
