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THEIR POTENTIAL 
AFTERSCHOOL & SUMMER CAMP
The Stratford Richardson YMCA offers a fun, safe environment for more than 150 kids each week during the summer and another 100 during the hours after school where they engage in enriching, healthy activities with positive role models. Of our current afterschool participants, 20% receive financial assistance and 80% receive state subsidy.
$125 provides a child with one week of summer camp. 
         
Turn your gift into THEIR POTENTIAL
Y READERS
Y Readers identifies pre-k through 2nd grade children who are currently performing below grade level. It engages students in active learning and enrichment that improves literacy skills and self-confidence in the classroom. During the summer of 2011, 88% of students who participated in the six-week program raised or maintained their reading levels. In 2012, the Center City YMCAs will provide 82 children with the Y Readers program.
$1,300 covers the cost for one child to attend the Y Readers literacy program. 
       
       
Y ACHIEVERS
Y Achievers taps into the great potential that all teens have.  In partnership with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, Y Achievers addresses Charlotte's most-critical need: increasing the graduation rate from 73.6% to 90% by 2014. The program helps teens set and achieve post-secondary education and future career goals.  The Center City YMCAs support the Y Achievers program at West Mecklenburg High School.
$1,200 provides a teen with one year of the Y Achievers program. 
       
         
SWIM LESSONS
Each year the Stratford Richardson YMCA provides swim lessons for more than 1,000 kids and teens. In addition to learning this life-saving skill, this experience builds social, athletic and leadership skills, as well as promoting healthy physical activity. 60% of swim lessons participants currently receive financial assistance.
$50 provides a child with one session of swim lessons. 		  
         
         
YOUTH SPORTS
During the fall of 2011, the Stratford Richardson YMCA provided 4-week flag football and basketball clinics at no cost to 200 kids in the West Corridor thanks to generous donors who fully subsidized the programs.  In 2012, the Y remains committed to providing donor funded sports programming to kids and families who cannot afford it.
$75 gives a child the opportunity to participate in one sports clinic. 		 Turn your gift into THEIR HEALTH
       
 

THEIR HEALTH 
HEALTH, WELL-BEING & FITNESS
Committed to improving the health and well-being of Charlotte's West Corridor, the Stratford Richardson YMCA provides the community with access to the resources and guidance needed to maintain and improve physical activity. At the Y, no child, family or adult is turned away. We recognize that for communities to succeed, everyone must be given the opportunity to be healthy, confident, connected and secure.
$1,000 provides a family with one year of YMCA access. 
       
       
ACTIVE OLDER ADULTS
The Stratford Richardson YMCA helps the senior members of our community avoid isolation by bringing them together to share in common interests like chair aerobics, water fitness, walking, wellness workshops, creative arts, book club and travel excursions. Of those surveyed, 94% reported having made friends since getting involved with the Stratford Richardson YMCA.
$750 enables a senior to participate in one year of enriching programming. 
         
 
Turn your gift into THEIR FUTURE
 

THEIR FUTURE 
GETTING AHEAD
At the Y, we offer the Aha! Process's "Getting Ahead" program as an educational tool for adults who are motivated to defeat the odds and build a better future for themselves and their families. During the 15 sessions of Getting Ahead, participants are led by a facilitator and work together in 2-hour intervals to examine the impact of poverty on themselves and their communities.  By program graduation, each participant will create a plan around their strengths and set goals to build their own resources to begin a journey of self sufficiency.
$1,400 covers the cost to serve one family in the Getting Ahead program. 
       
       
Charitable gifts made to the YMCA of Greater Charlotte represent a gift to the entire YMCA mission. To help the most number of people in need, the YMCA uses donations where they can do the most good by pooling them together to strengthen the entire community. Because your gift is helping the YMCA provide life-transforming programs to adults and children, your gift is tax deductible. 

 

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