Young Mens Christian Association-Findlay Ohio-

“The ymca is a community service organization whose membership is open to all, reguardless of gender, race, nationality, religion, physical or financial ability. The ymca provides financial assistance to those who cannot afford the membership rates and welcomes everyone in the community to join.”

“The members of the ymca elect the members of the governing body. Since the ymca is a public charity, the members do not receive any distributions of income or assets from the association.”

“The form 990 is presented to the finance committee for review. Upon approval by the finance committee, the finance committee makes a recommendation that the form 990 be accepted and be submitted to the board of directors at the next monthly board meeting.”

“Committees of the board of directors, during the course of making recommendations to the board of directors, determine if a conflict of interest is present and document such circumstance in their committee minutes. The committe member involved is required to abstain from voting and is so noted in the committee minutes. Committee reports are submitted monthly to the board of directors. These reports are available to the public upon request.”

“The executive committee meets annually to review and make a recommendation to the board of directors for annual compensation to the executive director. The committee uses wage and salary guidelines provided by the ymca of the usa to review similarly compensated ceo's of similarly sized ymcas across the country and takes into account research provided specific to geographic location. The recommendations of the executive committee are incorporated into the budget development process that is submitted for the board of directors approval. These recommendations are available to the public upon request.”

“Documents are available to the public upon request.”

“Mission and delivering our cause: the ymca mission is to put christian principles into practice that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all. The ymca is a diverse organization of men, women and children joined together by a shared commitment to nurturing the potential of kids, promoting healthy living and fostering a sense of social responsibility. For over 125 years the ymca has been serving our community as the largest not for profit organization in our city. The membership of the ymca mirrors the diversity and social -economic structure of our community. It represents the hopes and dreams of our constituents and our programs are designed in direct response to the challenges and collective needs that our community faces. The ymca's emphasis is on youth development, healthy living and social responsibility: everything the ymca does is designed to nurture the potential of children and teens (youth development), improve health and well-being (healthy living) and motivate people to support their neighbors and the larger community (social responsibility). Our growing membership is over 8,200 strong, representing 19% of our city's population. This past year, the ymca served 11,501 people in our community. 36% of these were children under the age of 18 years old who come to the y to learn, grow and thrive. Forty five percent of all ymca participants are female and 5% of all ymca members reflect a low-income population of our community that is provided scholarship assistance that allows for them to take part in ymca programs and activities at sliding scale rates. In 2017, hundreds of individuals received scholarship assistance to be part of the ymca amounting to 280,000 of direct financial assistance. We bring men, women and children together and our shared commitment to our communities ensures the opportunities to learn grow and thrive. The ymca is a volunteer organization. A volunteer board of directors, elected by the members of the ymca provides guidance and governance to the organization. They are the sole policy-making body of the ymca. Several standing committees of volunteers assist the ymca board of directors in making policy. A staff of ymca paid professional directors and hundreds of part time staff serves to deliver services and carry out policy determined by the board of directors as being beneficial to the community and in keeping with the ymca's purpose. Last year, over 500 volunteers provided hours of service to the ymca, at a value to the ymca that allows programs to be affordable and available to all.”

“Health wellness programs. These include exercise programs targeted for all age groups, arthritis programs, and cardiac rehabilitation programs. Specifically designed to address the nation's obesity crisis are the ymca's healthy living and obesity prevention activities. The ymca partners very closely with our local health departments, blanchard valley hospital, schools, university of findlay and the medical community in the delivery of these services.”

“Percent of our children come from families that live at or below the poverty level. The ymca provides hundreds of youth development programs to our community each year including a full range of health/wellness programs, sports programs, youth leadership development programs and personal safety programs (swim lessons) designed to keep our children and our community healthy and safe. Ymca summer day camps: summer day camping experiences served to engage 1,592 youth in a healthy and challenging outdoor experience on a daily basis throughout the summer months. In addition to the physically and mentally challenging experience that camp provides for our youth, it also provides for parents an alternative to traditional childcare services that's particularly attractive to older youth. In addition to being one of the ymca's most attractive youth development initiatives, it also overlaps with the ymca's other core program of social responsibility, in that it allows working parents to continue to be employed throughout the summer months while their children are being provided for in a healthy and wholesome ymca atmosphere.”

“Through the ymca feed a child program. In 2017 the ymca continued its partnership with the city of findlay for the eighth year by managing the riverside city pool so that it remained open to our city's residents. This season over 18,800 swimmers attended the city pool during the summer. In 2014 the y took over leadership of teen engage program with 15 youth ages 13-20 participating in collaboration and support of the community foundation. During the school year of 2016-2017, the ymca continued to administer the feed a child program. With the financial support of our community, hancock county united way, the hancock county community foundation, ohio logistics, garner transportation and marathon petroleum co., 724 children were provided over 147,700 meals on weekends in poverty-stricken homes. The program serves those children that would otherwise be served by the school free and reduced lunch program during the school week. The ymca healthy kids day event had over 1,000 children attend participating in activities with the promotion of healthy living to families and the inspiration for being active all year long at the ymca. Collaborative partnerships the ymca works closely with area businesses and corporations as well as other social service providers and government organizations in the delivery of services. Collaborations with these following partners took place in 2017: united way of hancock county university of findlay findlay city schools hancock county schools osu extension office 35 area small businesses findlay city health department hancock county health department children's mentoring connection century health hope house for the homeless open arms domestic violence blanchard valley health systems birchaven village help me grow owens community college the community foundation casa findlay city diversion program findlay city police department ar marketing hancock youth soccer association ohio logistics cooper tire marathon petroleum corporation findlay country club 50 north city of findlay blanchard valley center central church of christ first methodist church e-free church”

“Rental real estate expenses 31,026 due to operating fund 43,381 fundraising expenses 281,361 cost of access membership -70,636 rental real estate expenses -31,026 due to operating fund -43,381 fundraising expenses -281,361 cost of access membership 70,636”