Now in its 17th year, the annual ACSM’s Health & Fitness Journal survey helps guide health and fitness programming efforts for 2023 and beyond. More than 4,500 health and fitness professionals surveyed identified wearables as the top ...
To meet the needs of the YMCA’s vibrant, diverse and intergenerational workforce, the Emerging Leaders Resource Network (ELRN) recently developed the #NextGenNeeds framework. Through dedicated research, this outline provides Y’s a collection of preferred workplace ...
For community recreation centers, facilitating human connection is the key to post-pandemic recovery. Although most people in the community recreation industry have shifted to talking about COVID-19 in the past tense, we know the pandemic ...
Justin Dominick, the senior director of fitness at the JCC of Greater Baltimore, shares tips for promoting fitness and community as benefits to mental health. Being able to engage the community at places like JCC’s, YMCA’s ...
Image courtesy of the YMCA of Metro Denver. One of the hottest trends in the community rec industry right now are the growing number of medical partnerships organizations are creating. In the wake of the ...
How the Beyond Hunger program — a response to the COVID-19 pandemic — is helping to uplift and support the Denver community. The COVID-19 pandemic made food access harder for everyone — especially those already ...
Judi Christy, the director of marketing and communication at the Akron Area YMCA, discusses the differences between burnout and compassion fatigue in nonprofit. As a writer I love to come across new terms. I heard ...
Images courtesy of the Louisville Downtown Partnership. What was once a vacant, open lot on Main Street in the middle of downtown Louisville, Kentucky is now a repurposed, urban sports park meant to interject liveliness ...
Every generation has its own characteristics, desires and priorities. This holds true now for Generation Z — a population that is very diverse, digitally savvy and pragmatic. At a time of constant turnover in the ...
For over 108 years, the Rye YMCA has acted as the vibrant and diverse heart of the community welcoming families and individuals from New York neighborhoods such as Rye, Larchmont, Mamaroneck, Harrison, Port Chester and ...