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Team Rye YMCAs Team Achievement is raising money for Annual Campaign 2014

Fundraising Amount=$50.00 ; Goal=$2,000.00
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The YMCA is at the heart of my own life and a genuine passion and force in most everything I do. I've grown up at the Y as my whole family has worked for the Y and many still do. My mother, who works for our national office, shares an impact and ACHIEVEMENT story with board members and other Ys just like ours. It's about a little boy who doesn't have a lot of confidence, nervous and shy with strangers, and not into sports. Through the Y, the boy learns to swim, how to dive in the deep end, teach a group of friends to dissect their first fish and more. Each class built this child's knowledge and also comfort and confidence in working with others; his friends.

Soon the boy joined summer camp and found great Role Models who taught him how to sail and eventually race; winning trophies all around the Chesapeake Bay. Now a teenager, the camp staff began to build him into not just a sailor, but a coach for others. Without him realizing it he began to teach the other campers, learn foundational leadership skills, and gain a world of new, untapped confidence as a leader.

The story goes in to many other things, but needless to say, this young man became who he is today BECAUSE OF THE YMCA, because of the role models and their profound focus on ACHIEVEMENT. What those listening don't realize is that the story is actually about me. Though my mother has shared this countless times, she still tears up because the organization she works for, the organization that I am dedicated to, has build me to who I am now; a cause driven YMCA leader. I’m actually getting choked up writing this and remembering everything through the 30 years I’ve been a member; my first swim instructor named Pat who taught me to blow bubbles with my head in the water. My YMCA science class teacher Marie. My role model and inspiration for a lot of what I became at summer camps, Steve Wermus who taught me how to sail and convinced me to become a Leader in Training. Some of my biggest accomplishments in life and easily my strong passions are safely rooted in my YMCA life.

Thank YOU and the YMCA for making me who I am and helping hundreds of others ACHIEVE the same!


About the Y

There’s a common perception that the Rye Y is just a great “swim and gym”.

True, we do have a state-of-the-art fitness center, a 7,000 square foot gym and two pools that are continuously filled with children learning to swim, seniors stretching during Aquacize classes and adults pushing their limits with every lap.

But the Y is so much more.

Although we care deeply about the well-being of our members, we are also actively committed to community health. Our initiatives promote pedestrian safety, nutrition and physical activity in schools, outdoor play and exploration for children, support and healing for cancer survivors and chronic disease prevention.

 

There is also a perception that because our building is located in Rye—one of the wealthiest municipalities in the county—all of our members are well-off.

 

In fact, our programs reach children, adults and senior citizens in Port Chester, Mamaroneck, Larchmont, Harrison, Rye…and beyond.  One out of six of our summer campers receive financial aid.  In 2013, we awarded over $625,000 in assistance for memberships, classes, childcare and camp—up from $508,000 for all of 2012.  Clearly, there is need in our midst.

We have made a powerful promise to our community: no-one will ever be turned away from a Y program or activity because he or she can’t pay. However, we can’t keep that promise without your support.

I hope that your perception of the Rye Y is of a cause-driven charitable organization that is working every day to change lives. If so, thank you in advance for once again helping the Y do so much more.

 


 

 


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