Community Development

This month, we spoke with Courtney Harrness, a multi-site executive director for the YMCA of the Greater Twin Cities, about summer youth programming. Can you...

When Trish Harrison, the association health and wellness director of the YMCA of Greater Kalamazoo, found out about the discontinuing of her mother’s Parkinson’s class...

Last week, as I was out enjoying a Friday evening with my family, we tried a new restaurant. The food was fine. The atmosphere was...

Did you know the nation’s first Father’s Day celebration took place on June 19, 1910 at the Spokane YMCA? As a result of wanting to...

With all the focus in youth programs going to the kids — and rightly so — an often-forgotten but important element of these programs is...

In the field of community recreation, children are offered a multitude of sports. To encourage youth participation, it’s important to offer the most popular programs...

The Rye YMCA, located in Rye, New York, is similar to most local Ys — it offers multiple community health programs, and strives to make...

Specialized classes are a great way to support and empower the moms in your community, especially for Mother’s Day. The Tom A. Finch Community YMCA,...

Creative activities to promote health and wellness among youth become more abundant in the summer months. Being outside the classroom, kids seek outdoor play to...

An increasingly common problem in several communities is food insecurity, and larger metropolitan areas like Greater Boston get hit especially hard. To help counteract the...