Category: Social Responsibility
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My name is Julie and I’m a single mom with 2 kids. My son Jacob (12 years old) is emotionally impaired and has oppositional defiant disorder. My daughter Lilly (9 years old) was diagnosed with Type One Diabetes on March 18, 2015. Fours years ago due to my financial situation, I applied for a YMCA…
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Healthy Living / Lakeshore Family YMCA / Livonia Family YMCA / North Oakland Family YMCA / Social Responsibility
Celebrating 2018 Volunteers of the Year
Each year our YMCA celebrates a relationship that has lasted more than 157 years — a relationship between volunteers, donors, Y staff, members and program participants and we call this celebration Living our Cause or LOC for short. Thanks to 1000s of amazing volunteers working together we: Nurtured 100 Healthy Hearts by helping high risk…
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Detroit area residents are improving their health by lowering their blood pressure thanks to a grant from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan. New blood pressure self-monitoring sites launch Summer 2018 contact Tricia Hamzik or Brittney Lyons.
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North Brothers Ford, located in Westland, Michigan is no stranger to the Y, and no stranger to connecting with kids. The organization has been a longtime supporter of the Livonia Family YMCA and this year is no exception. North Brothers Ford made a contribution that will have a significant impact on YMCA camp kids in…
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Lakeshore Family YMCA / Livonia Family YMCA / North Oakland Family YMCA / Social Responsibility / Youth Development
Round up your purchase at Macy’s to support Summer Day Camp!
The Y is proud to partner with Macy’s this May in an exciting donation campaign to provide Y camp scholarships to kids. From May 1 – 22, customers at all Macy’s stores will have the opportunity to support Y summer camp scholarships for kids by rounding up their purchases to the nearest dollar (up to…
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Whether they were bouncing a basketball, being captivated by a magic trick, or learning how to properly brush their teeth, kids were energized by their experiences during Healthy Kids Day. The Livonia Family YMCA celebrated Healthy Kids Day in April, allowing children and their families to experience some of the activities the Y offers, as…
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Healthy Living / Lakeshore Family YMCA / Livonia Family YMCA / North Oakland Family YMCA / Social Responsibility / Youth Development
2017 Impact Report
As a resident of metro Detroit you know our community is resilient. We are a loving, diverse community of varied ages, genders, ethnicities, backgrounds and challenges. We also share in common goals and believe in the potential of every child and family. We enable our children to overcome learning gaps, nurture our teens to thrive…
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The YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit has issued an RFP for Comprehensive Major Fundraising Services. The primary focus of this RFP is to plan, establish and execute a Comprehensive Major Fundraising Program for the YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit to increase the number of renewable contributed and sponsored dollars of $10,000 or more to expand our YMCA’s…
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What follows is a call to action by Michelle Robertson, Director of Strategic Initiatives shared at a recent staff leadership meeting. At a time when social issues such as bullying, discrimination, inequality and sexual assaults plague our headlines, it’s easy to feel cynical and pessimistic about the future of our society. But when I stop to…
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