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Jun. 22—Erina McWilliam-Lopez of Gloucester will serve as Cape Ann YMCA's new executive director. She starts Monday, July 11. ... "The Y has a long history of meeting the moment and has been ...
The YMCA Youth and Government program was established in 1936 in New York by Clement A. Duran, then the Boys Work Secretary for the Albany YMCA. [5] The program motto, “Democracy must be learned by each generation,” was taken from a quote by Earle T. Hawkins, the founder of the Maryland Youth and Government program.
Aug. 31—The YMCA of Greater Nashua is pleased to announce that Carlisa Choate has joined the Y as Executive Director of Education, a new position at the Y. In this role, she will be responsible ...
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. He was influenced by the London YMCA and saw the association as an opportunity to provide a "home away from home" for young sailors on shore leave.
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] It was founded in London on 6 June 1844 by George Williams as the Young Men's Christian Association.
As of 2021, there are twenty two branches throughout the five boroughs, including the McBurney Y that was the inspiration for the Village People's song and the West Side YMCA. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] YMCA of Greater New York is affiliated with YMCA in America and also operated Camp Talcott , a more than century-old sleepaway camp that hosted more ...
This meeting resulted in the first World Conference of YMCA from 19 to 24 August 1855, [2] and the creation of the Paris Basis which is still a guiding principle of the organization today. [ 3 ] It was the idea of Frédéric Monnier , from the Paris YMCA, who having met Henry Dunant in 1852 had worked on plans for a basis of general union of ...
The song, from the Village People’s album “Cruisin’”, is purportedly about the nonprofit Young Men’s Christian Association and the community centers it runs in many U.S. cities.