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It was founded in 1851 by Captain Thomas Valentine Sullivan (1800–59), an American seaman and missionary. [2] YMCAs in America is one of the largest charitable nonprofits in the United States, in terms of donations received from the general public, as listed by Forbes magazine. [3]
A temporary First World War YMCA on the Western Front, near Rouen, France, 1914 YMCA Bath, one of 86 locations in England and Wales. YMCA in the United Kingdom and Ireland consists of three separate National Councils: England and Wales, Ireland, and Scotland. When YMCAs in Wales joined YMCA England in 2017, the council was renamed YMCA England ...
The Victor F. Lawson House is a historic former YMCA building located at 30 W. Chicago Avenue in the Near North Side neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.The building was built in 1931 for the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago, which was established in 1858 and had grown considerably during the 1920s.
In 1910, Dan Beard founded Boy Scouts Troop 1 in Flushing, New York, which is believed to be one of the oldest continuously chartered Boy Scout Troop in the United States. [ 62 ] Troop 5 of Denver holds claim to be the oldest continually chartered Boy Scout troop in the United States, west of the Mississippi River, having been chartered ...
In 1915, the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, one of the first groups specializing in African-American studies, was founded during a meeting at the Wabash 'Y'. [ 2 ] Louis Gregory , a traveling speaker for the Bahá'í Faith and often attending national conventions of the religion held in Chicago area, is known to have ...
Central YMCA College was a college operated by the YMCA in Chicago, Illinois, United States.It was founded prior to or in 1922. [1] and was accredited in 1924. [2]It was closed in 1945 after the university president and a large majority of the faculty and students left to form what became Roosevelt University.
19 South LaSalle Street was constructed as the Central YMCA Association Building in 1893, [1] [2] and completed shortly before the Panic of 1893. [1] The structure, designed by William LeBaron Jenney and William Bryce Mundie as Jenney & Mundie , was eventually renamed for its address, 19 South LaSalle Street. [ 3 ]
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 ...