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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]
International Journal of the History of Sport 1994 11#1: 42-62; Fischer-Tiné, Harald, Stefan Huebner and Ian Tyrrell, eds. Spreading Protestant Modernity: Global Perspectives on the Social Work of the YMCA and YWCA (c. 1889–1970) (University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2020) abstract. Hopkins, Charles Howard (1951). History of the YMCA in North ...
YMCA Association Men Cover June 1919.. The Kautz Family YMCA Archives, located at the University of Minnesota Libraries in Minneapolis, United States, archives the historical records of the U.S. YMCA national association, YMCA of the USA, the records of the Minneapolis and Greater New York YMCAs, and those of the Y's Men International, a service club in partnership with the YMCA.
A full account of the historical influence of Brown's organizing efforts in Asia is the article "Muscular Christianity and the “Western Civilizing Mission”: Elwood S. Brown, the YMCA, and the Idea of the Far Eastern Championship Games" by Stefan Hübner in Diplomatic History, 39.3, December 9, 2013, pp 532
A copy is available from the YMCA SA office and will be eventually online. Daly also authored a book "Recreation and Sport Planning and Design." [18] 1970s. Glen Powell. Powell came to Australia with his family in about 1970 and worked under Daly until he became CEO. He was ex-Chicago YMCA and only came for "a couple of years".
The YMCA – whose full name is the Young Men’s Christian Association – was originally set up as a non-political Christian movement in London in 1844. Commonly referred to as “the Y,” it ...
According to Free Press archives, the YMCA of Metro Detroit sold the 140,000-square-foot building to Operation Get Down for $1. A courtyard att the old YMCA building on Harper Avenue which is ...
In 1907 Scouting was founded by Robert Baden-Powell following the success of his book Aids to Scouting. His inspiration for this organisation was his experience during the Siege of Mafeking in the Second Boer War (1899–1902). Like Smith's Boys' Brigade, the organisation was uniformed, being heavily influenced by the military, though it has ...