Now that the leaves are falling from the trees, the days have gotten colder and the sunlight scarcer, there’s no way to avoid the inevitable and exciting fact that the Y Turkey Trot Charity 5K is upon us! We are seeing registrations roll in at a record pace, and with
Month: October 2018
Last Tuesday, about 200 of our Y leaders came together for our Fall Leadership Retreat, an extraordinary morning of fellowship and exploration around our values, shared experiences, diverse perspectives, challenges and accomplishments. We met at the newly constructed Forest Park High School in northwest Baltimore, which is a Y Community School.
Youth Development, Healthy Living and Social Responsibility are the three focal points of all our work and while it’s easy to point to Y work and programs that deliver on the promise of healthy living and youth development, the notion of “social responsibility” can seem vague as literally everything we
The Y is about many things, but at its core it is about community. Community means different things to different people at different times. At one moment a community may be a community of two people, whether they are friends or recent acquaintances. At other times it’s about a focus