Welcome to My Fundraising Page
Stepping Up For A Cause
Greetingsi
As you may know I’ve been an active board member of the Collins & Katz Family YMCA in WLA for the past Ten years. Even though things have opened up, we continue to provide many community services and have added some new ones .
Below is a list of the YMCA's engagment in our community:
1. A weekly food distribution continues each Thursday providing groceries and produce to about 150 recipients each week
2. The C&K YMCA provides free memberships to about 200 teens over the summer to provide them with a safe place to spend time.
3. This summer, Kids were back at camp and the Y sponsored many kids who had never left the city to attend camp up at Big Bear Lake.
4. The C&K family YMCA continues to be a site for American Red Cross blood drives where we have made a huge impact.
5. The Youth in Government program has teen delegates who gather weekly over the seven-month program period to discuss and debate issues facing their communities and to work together to create potential, policy-based solutions. During the course, delegates write bills and select governmental positions to role play. The program culminates with a five-day Model Legislature and Court at the California State Capitol in Sacramento.
6. The water safety program brings children from our local elementary schools who cannot swim and teaches them water safety skills.
7. We provide schools without Physical education programs instructors so that students have meaningful PE.
8. We provide branch membership scholarships and reduced rates for those in need.
9. This year our branch joined the Stephen Weiss Temple readers to leaders program, providing our underserved youth with a quality literacy program
Membership dues collected help to maintain the facility, but your donations are really what drives our community services.
I will be participating in the Stair Climb for Los Angeles again this year on September 30. After overcoming my fear of the open stairwell last year, I'm ready to crush my time from last year at the 75 story US Bank tower (tallest staircase west of the Mississippi) I hope you will sponsor me as a way of donating to the C&K YMCA. To donate, please click Donate button at the bottom and enter my name in the participant search to get to my fundraising page
I f you have any problems, please contact me at wtashjian@gmail.com
Thanks very much for your support!!
Regards,
Wayne
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