Tag: Education & Leadership
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Storytelling can be one of the most powerful ways to get a message across. For Margaret Edwartowski, Executive Director of Y Arts, telling her story led her to a $225,000 grant that will allow her to continue enriching lives of young adults in metro Detroit through the arts. Edwartowski was mentioning challenges that Y Arts…
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Children and teens in Farmington and Farmington Hills will benefit from several grants awarded to the Farmington Family YMCA. Camp Riley and the Teen Camp/Counselor-in-Training programs can provide expanded programming and more scholarships thanks to several local foundations.
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A cast of 42 young actors, dancers and singers have been practicing hard this winter to launch the Livonia Y’s inaugural theater production. The curtain goes up this Thursday on the group’s staging of “The Wizard of Oz.”
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Every year, MY-Y staff take a busload of 45 students on a tour of Southern colleges and universities. They visit both historically black colleges and universities such as Spelman and Morehouse, as well as mainstream universities such as Vanderbilt and Clemson. They are seeking sponsorships to defray the $725 fee for the tour for students…
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Children in the Kindermusic class at the Downriver Y recently had a visit from two of the biggest celebrities in their world — Elmo and Cookie Monster.