Tag: volunteering

  • Kathi Kucharski

    To celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Boll Family YMCA, we’ve gathered 20 honorees: members and staff, donors and volunteers, parents and kids, lifters and learners. Woven together, their stories compose the tapestry that is our Boll Family YMCA community. This is Kathi’s story.

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  • David Zainea

    To celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Boll Family YMCA, we’ve gathered 20 honorees: members and staff, donors and volunteers, parents and kids, lifters and learners. Woven together, their stories compose the tapestry that is our Boll Family YMCA community. This is David’s story.

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  • Crystal Perkins

    To celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Boll Family YMCA, we’ve gathered 20 honorees: members and staff, donors and volunteers, parents and kids, lifters and learners. Woven together, their stories compose the tapestry that is our Boll Family YMCA community. This is Crystal’s story.

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  • Carl Stafford

    To celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Boll Family YMCA, we’ve gathered 20 honorees: members and staff, donors and volunteers, parents and kids, lifters and learners. Woven together, their stories compose the tapestry that is our Boll Family YMCA community. This is Carl’s story.

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  • Judge David Allen

    To celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Boll Family YMCA, we’ve gathered 20 honorees: members and staff, donors and volunteers, parents and kids, lifters and learners. Woven together, their stories compose the tapestry that is our Boll Family YMCA community. This is Judge Allen’s story.

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  • The Girls on the Run 5K is a non-competitive race that is designed to be fun and supportive, celebrating the kids who have completed the Girls on the Run and STRIDE programs. The 5K is not timed, and there are no winners or losers. The focus is on the experience of running and completing the…

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  • Youth Volunteer Corps teens from Plymouth, Farmington, and Downriver YMCAs participated in a great weekend of community service at Camp Ohiyesa this weekend, and we wanted to share some photos from the project! This weekend project was made possible with support from YVC and the Sunderland Foundation through their Big Build Grant, that provides funds

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  • 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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  • This week, the YMCA of Metropolitan bids farewell to AmeriCorps NCCC (National Civilian Community Corps) team Oak 5, who has been helping us refurbish five of our facilities over the past several weeks. From August 7 to September 11, the seven team members painted, re-floored, acted as camp counselors and performed other landscaping and maintenance

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  • Most of the bullying Michigan Teacher of the Year Melody Arabo endured did not happen until she was in middle school, which is why she was shocked when she, as an educator, saw some of her sweetest and brightest students acting as bullies in the third grade. It inspired her to author “Diary of a

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