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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]
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.
Old Central YMCA was across Charles Street from the first church in the city and metropolitan area, Old St. Paul's Anglican (Episcopal) Church, founded 1692 in southeastern Baltimore County and later relocated to the southeast corner of Charles and Saratoga when Baltimore Town was first laid out in 1729–30. The Old 19th Century YMCA was later ...
Troop 1 of Brentwood, Tennessee, also holds claim to be the oldest continually chartered Boy Scout Troop in the United States, having been continuously chartered since 1910. Troop One holds the distinction of only having three Scoutmasters in its over 104-year history. [65] Troop 1, Park Ridge, Illinois was formed in 1910 and chartered on 22 ...
Sports clubs and teams founded by the YMCA (1 C, 46 P) YMCA Summer Camps (35 P) U. Universities and colleges founded by the YMCA (2 C, 34 P) Pages in category "YMCA"
The 28th Street YMCA is a historic YMCA building in South Los Angeles, California. It was listed as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 2006 and put on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. The four-story structure was built in 1926 at a cost of $200,000.
The YMCA Building is a historic building in San Diego, California. It was built in 1924, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007, before the YMCA moved out in 2014. [ 1 ] During that time, the group served over 125 million military personnel in the facility.
Pages in category "Sports clubs and teams founded by the YMCA" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .