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Why Give to the Simmons YMCA?
 In the neighborhoods surrounding the Simmons YMCA*:
- The senior population is as high as 11.3%, while the city average is 8.7%.
- The dropout rate is as high as 8.1% while the city average is 5.1%.
- In the Eastland/Wilora Lake neighborhood, only 30.8% of the children are scoring at or above grade level. The city average is considerably higher at 55.2%.
- The juvenile arrest rate is as high as 3.5% on a city average of 1%.
You can change the outcome. It all starts with you.
The Simmons YMCA invites you to invest your time, talent and financial resources in our commitment to make the Charlotte East region healthier. Your support helps fund the following programs:
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In the summer of 2009, the Simmons YMCA helped approximately 25 children at Albemarle Road Elementary raise or maintain their reading levels.
$1,200 provides one child with one summer of YMCA Starfish Academy.
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Simmons YMCA's Active Older Adults program provides seniors the opportunity to improve their physical fitness, emotional and spiritual health through exercise classes, health assessments, social activities and fellowship. More than 350 seniors participate.
$575 provides one senior a year of activity and membership.
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The Simmons YMCA offers a fun, safe environment for 300 children and teens in the summer and another 30 during the hours after school. It is here where youth engage in enriching, healthy activities with positive role models.
$50 provides one child with one week of Afterschool.
$2,200 provides one child with one year of Afterschool.
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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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| *Charlotte Neighborhood Quality of Life Study 2008, by Metropolitan Studies Group, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. |
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For more information please contact:
Carola Cardenas
(704) 716-6609
carola.cardenas@ymcacharlotte.org
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