Getting your player ready...
The Young Men’s Christian Association has expanded far beyond its name in the U.S. A new strategic plan envisions the organization as America’s paramount fitness and anti-obesity crusader, combating what it calls “the nation’s ongoing lifestyle health crisis.”
1844 Year the YMCA was founded in London in response to unhealthy social conditions arising in the big cities at the end of the Industrial Revolution
967 Member associations
2,663 Number of branches
500,000-plus Children in Y-care programs
65 and older Fastest-growing age group
