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It employs 19,000 staff and is supported by 600,000 volunteers, and YMCA branches have about 10,000 service locations. [1] The first YMCA in the United States opened on December 29, 1851, in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1851 by Captain Thomas Valentine Sullivan (1800–59), an American seaman and missionary. [2]
Sloane House YMCA, West 34th Street, New York City, which was the largest residential YMCA in the U.S.A. Old Poughkeepsie YMCA, Poughkeepsie, New York, listed on the NRHP as "Young Men's Christian Association". [2] United States Post Office (Canandaigua, New York), now used by the YMCA and listed on the NRHP in Ontario County, New York. [2]
YMCA, sometimes regionally called the Y, is a worldwide youth organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 64 million beneficiaries in 120 countries.It has nearly 90,000 staff, some 920,000 volunteers and 12,000 branches worldwide. [1]
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Putnam is a town in Callahan County, Texas, United States. The population was 63 at the 2020 census , [ 4 ] down from 94 in 2010. [ 5 ] It is part of the Abilene, Texas Metropolitan Statistical Area .
The YMCA of Central Texas faces a lawsuit claiming that one of its day care workers injured a 2-year-old boy. The day care worker named in the lawsuit, 45-year-old Geraline Browning, was charged ...
The Moody Family YMCA is in University Park. [32] It was formerly known as the Park Cities-North Dallas Branch YMCA. [33] Circa 2014 its previous building was to be demolished, and the YMCA leased 15,000-square-foot (1,400 m 2) in Preston Center for the period until its new building would open. [34]
The YMCA Cossaboom Branch opened in the 1950s. Circa 2018 the YMCA closed it stating that there were flooding concerns, and it sold the property to Jerome Karam, a lawyer from Friendswood, who planned to develop the property into a private gymnasium. [64] The Cossaboom YMCA had 102 dormitory rooms, only allowing single male residents. [65]