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The Greater Philadelphia YMCA is a community service organization that promotes positive values through programs that help to build strong kids, strong families and strong communities. Over the years, Philadelphia Freedom Valley YMCA has grown to include 15 branches and 55 program sites throughout the Greater Philadelphia area.
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]
The West Valley–Mission Community College District (WVMCCD) is a public community college district that serves roughly 20,000 students from Santa Clara County and Santa Cruz County in California. [ 1 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The district administers two colleges, West Valley College and Mission College , and is headquartered on the campus of West Valley ...
The college was founded as West Valley Junior College in 1963. [2] [3] It was to serve the footprint of the Campbell Union High School District, the Los Gatos-Saratoga Joint Union High School District, and the Santa Clara Unified School District. The district was formed by voter approval in January 1963. [2] The first classes began September 14 ...
The YWCA history dates back to 1855, when the philanthropist Lady Mary Jane Kinnaird founded the North London Home for nurses travelling to or from the Crimean War. [1] The home addressed the needs of single women arriving from rural areas to join the industrial workforce in London, by offering housing, education and support with a "warm Christian atmosphere".
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.
The West Valley Athletic League was a high school athletic league under the auspices of the CIF Central Coast Section. The league generally covered the schools of the Campbell Union High School District and Los Gatos-Saratoga Joint Union High School District .
West Valley may refer to: West Valley (California), a geographical area of Santa Clara County; West Valley (Phoenix metropolitan area), a geographical area of the Phoenix metropolitan area; West Valley, New York; West Valley, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community; West Valley, Washington, a census-designated place in Yakima County