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Worldwide youth organization founded by Sir George Williams 1844

"The Y" redirects here. For the Latin character, come across Y. For other uses, see The Y (disambiguation).

YMCA, sometimes regionally chosen the Y, is a worldwide youth organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 64 million beneficiaries in 120 countries.^[1] It was founded on 6 June 1844 by Sir George Williams in London, originally as the Immature Men's Christian Clan, and aims to put Christian principles into practice by developing a healthy "body, mind, and spirit."

From its inception, it grew chop-chop and ultimately became a worldwide motility founded on the principles of muscular Christianity. Local YMCAs deliver projects and services focused on youth development through a wide multifariousness of youth activities, including providing athletic facilities, holding classes for a wide variety of skills, promoting Christianity, and humanitarian work.

YMCA is a non-governmental federation, with each contained local YMCA affiliated with its national system. The national organizations, in turn, are function of both an Area Alliance (Europe, Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, the United States, and Canada) and the World Alliance of YMCAs (World YMCA). Consequently, all YMCAs are unique, while following certain shared aims, such equally the Paris Basis.

Imitator organizations include the Immature Women's Christian Clan (YWCA), the Young Men's Hebrew Association (YMHA), and the Young Men'southward Buddhist Clan (YMBA). YMCA is also the subject field of Village People'south 1978 song "Y.M.C.A."

History

Origins

The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) was founded by George Williams and 11 friends.^[two] Williams was a London draper who was typical of the young men drawn to the cities by the Industrial Revolution. They were concerned near the lack of healthy activities for young men in major cities; the options available were unremarkably taverns and brothels. Williams' idea grew out of meetings he held for prayer and Bible-reading among his swain workers in a business organization in the city of London,^[iii] and on half dozen June 1844, he held the first meeting that led to the founding of YMCA with the purpose of "the improving of the spiritual condition of young men engaged in the drapery, embroidery, and other trades."^[4] Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury served as YMCA'southward first president from 1851 until his death in 1885.^[5]

By 1845, YMCA started a pop series of lectures held that went on to be held at Exeter Hall, London, from 1848, and the lectures started being published the following year, the series running until 1865.^[6]

YMCA was associated with Industrialisation and the movement of young people to cities to piece of work. YMCA "combined preaching in the streets and the distribution of religious tracts with a social ministry building. Philanthropists saw them as places for wholesome recreation that would preserve youth from the temptations of booze, gambling, and prostitution and that would promote expert citizenship."^[7]

Movement

Tablet at the YMCA in Montreal

The YMCA spread outside the United Kingdom in role thanks to the Corking Exhibition of 1851, the outset in a serial of Earth's Fairs which was held in Hyde Park, London.^[5] Later that twelvemonth in that location were YMCAs in Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Hong Kong, and the Us.

The idea of creating a truly global movement with an international headquarters was led past Henry Dunant, Secretary of YMCA Geneva, who would later proceed to institute the International Committee of the Red Cantankerous and win the first Nobel Peace Prize. Dunant successfully convinced YMCA Paris to organise the first YMCA World Conference. The Conference took place in August 1855, bringing together 99 young delegates from nine countries, held before the Exposition Universelle (1855). They discussed joining in a federation to enhance cooperation amongst private YMCA societies. This marked the beginning of the World Alliance of YMCAs. The conference adopted the Paris Basis, a common mission for all present and future national YMCAs.^[viii] Its motto was taken from the Bible, "That they all may be one" (John 17:21).

Other ecumenical bodies, such every bit the World YWCA, the World Quango of Churches, and the Earth Student Christian Federation have reflected elements of the Paris Basis in their founding mission statements. In 1865, the fourth World Conference of YMCAs, held in Deutschland, affirmed the importance of developing the whole individual in spirit, listen, and trunk. The concept of concrete piece of work through sports, a new concept for the fourth dimension, was as well recognized every bit part of this "muscular Christianity".

YMCA has cooperated with camping organizations such as Camp Fire (organization), and Girl Scouts of the United states of america, and Boy Scouts of America. This lasted from 1989 to 2015.

Two themes resonated during the first World Conference: the need to respect the local autonomy of YMCA societies, and the purpose of YMCA: to unite all young, male Christians for the extension and expansion of the Kingdom of God. The former idea is expressed in the preamble:

The delegates of diverse Young Men's Christian Associations of Europe and America, assembled in Briefing at Paris, the 22 August 1855 feeling that they are one in principle and in operation, recommend to their corresponding Societies to recognize with them the unity existing amongst their Associations, and while preserving a complete independence as to their particular organization and modes of activity, to form a Confederation of secession on the following fundamental principle, such principle to be regarded every bit the basis of admission of other Societies in hereafter.

1870s to 1910s

A YMCA gym in London, 1888

YMCA was very influential during the 1870s and the 1930s, during which times it most successfully promoted "evangelical Christianity in weekday and Sunday services, while promoting practiced sportsmanship in athletic contests in gyms (where basketball and volleyball were invented) and swimming pools."^[vii] Later in this period, and continuing on through the 20th century, YMCA had "become interdenominational and more than concerned with promoting morality and skillful citizenship than a distinctive interpretation of Christianity."^[7] Starting before the American Civil State of war,^[ix] YMCA provided nursing, shelter, and other back up in wartime in the US.

Logo of the World Alliance of YMCAs (YMCA Archive, Geneva)

In 1878, the World YMCA offices were established in Geneva, Switzerland by Dunant. Afterward, in 1900, North American YMCAs, in collaboration with the World YMCA, set up centres to piece of work with emigrants in European ports, every bit millions of people were leaving for the United states. In 1880, in Norway, YMCA became the first national system to prefer a strict policy of equal gender representation in committees and national boards.

Hotel Arthur, a hotel founded in 1907 past YMCA,^[10] in Helsinki, Finland

Christian Street YMCA Historical Marker at 1724 Christian St Philadelphia PA

In 1885, Camp Baldhead (after known equally Camp Dudley), the starting time residential army camp in the U.s.a. and North America, was established by George A. Sanford and Sumner F. Dudley, both of whom worked for YMCA. The camp, originally located near Orange Lake in New Bailiwick of jersey, moved to Lake Wawayanda in Sussex County the post-obit year, then to the shore of Lake Champlain near Westport, New York, in 1891.^{[eleven] [12]}

The YMCA was an early on influence on scouting that began in the UK in 1907. The twelvemonth after its inception by Robert Baden-Powell, the first sentinel troops met in the Nottingham and Birkenhead YMCA buildings.^[thirteen] The YMCA would also influence the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) and German Scouting. Edgar M. Robinson, a Chicago-surface area YMCA administrator, worked at YMCA while also becoming the BSA's first director.

In 1916, K. T. Paul became the first Indian national general secretary of India. Paul had started rural development programs for self-reliance of marginal farmers, through co-operatives and credit societies. These programmes became very popular. He too coined the term "rural reconstruction", and many of the principles he developed were afterward incorporated into the Indian'south authorities nationwide community evolution programs. In 1923, Y. C. James Yen, of YMCA China, devised the "thousand character arrangement", based on pilot projects in education. The method also became very popular, and in 1923, it led to the founding of the Chinese National Association of the Mass Education Movement. In 1878, YMCA was organized near the Jaffa Gate of the Former City of Jerusalem and the current landmark building was dedicated by General Lord Allenby in 1933 during the British Mandate of Palestine.

Past then, near of the YMCA^{[ clarification needed ]} had fundamental offices in Gainesville, Florida; Tokyo, Japan; Denver, Colorado; and Madrid, Espana.

The Globe Wars

Within 10 days of the proclamation of World War I, YMCA had established no fewer than 250 recreation centres, also known as huts, in the United Kingdom, and would become on to build temporary huts across Europe to support both soldiers and civilians alike, run by thousands of volunteers. Notable supporters and volunteers included Clementine Churchill^[14] (for which she was appointed a Commander of the Lodge of the British Empire (CBE) in 1918), Oswald Chambers and Robert and Olave Baden-Powell.^[15] Within the first month the YMCA Women's Auxiliary was formed, and Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein would go on to become a notable fellow member and chairman of its organising committee.^[16]

During Earth State of war I, YMCA raised and spent over $155 million on welfare efforts for American soldiers. Information technology deployed over 25,000 staff in military units and bases from Siberia to Egypt to France. They took over the war machine'southward morale and condolement operations worldwide. Irving Berlin wrote Yip Yip Yaphank, a revue that included a song entitled "I Tin E'er Find a Little Sunshine in the YMCA". Frances Gulick was a YMCA worker stationed in France during World War I who received a United States Army commendation for valour and courage on the field.^[17]

During World War 2, YMCA was involved in supporting millions of POWs and in supporting Japanese Americans in internment camps. This aid included helping young men leave the camps to attend Springfield Higher and providing youth activities in the camps. In addition, YMCA was one of vii organizations that helped to found the USO.

In Europe, YMCA helped refugees, particularly displaced Jews. Sometimes YMCA participated in escape operations.^[18] Generally, however, its office was limited to providing relief packages to refugees.^[xix]

It was as well involved in state of war piece of work with displaced persons and refugees. It ready State of war Prisoners Assist to back up prisoners of state of war by providing sports equipment, musical instruments, art materials, radios, gramophones, eating utensils, and other items. Donald Lowrie of the YMCA took the helm of the Committee of Nîmes (as well known as the Camps Committee), a group that gathered leaders from over twenty humanitarian organizations coordinate advocacy for people in the internment camps, including helping children get out these camps to live in children's colonies or somewhen escape to freedom.^[20]

From the 1940s

YMCA Motion Picture show Bureau, renamed Clan Films in 1946, was ane of the UK's largest non-theatrical distribution companies.^[21] In 1947 the Globe YMCA gained special consultative status with the United Nations Economical and Social Council. In 1955 the starting time blackness President of the World YMCA, Charles Dunbar Sherman from Republic of liberia, was elected. At 37 years, he was as well the youngest president in Globe YMCA history. In 1959 YMCA of the U.s. developed the first nationally organized scuba diving course and certified their first skin and scuba diving instructors.^{[22] [23]} By 1974, YMCA had gear up a curriculum to begin education cave diving.^[24]

In 1973, the Sixth World Council in Kampala, Republic of uganda, became the first World Council in Africa, hosted past Uganda YMCA. It reaffirmed the Paris Ground and adopted a declaration of principles, known as the Kampala Principles.^[25] It include the principles of justice, inventiveness and honesty. It stated what had become obvious: that a global viewpoint was more necessary. It likewise recognized that YMCA and its national member organizations would have to take political stands, particularly in international challenges and crises.

In 1976, YMCA of the USA appointed Violet King Henry to executive director to its Organizational Development Group, making her the first woman named to a senior management position with the American national YMCA.

In 1985, the World Council of YMCAs passed a resolution against apartheid, and anti-apartheid campaigns were formed under the leadership of Lee Soo-Min (Korea), the first Asian secretary general of the World YMCA.

Challenge 21 and contempo years

In 1998, the 14th World Council of YMCAs in Federal republic of germany adopted "Challenge 21",^[26] intended to place more focus on global challenges, such equally gender equality, sustainable development, state of war and peace, fair distribution, and the challenges of globalization, racism, and HIV/AIDS.

Affirming the Paris Ground adopted in 1855, as the ongoing foundation argument of the mission of YMCA, at the threshold of the third millennium, we declare that YMCA is a worldwide Christian, ecumenical, voluntary move for women and men with special emphasis on and the genuine involvement of immature people and that it seeks to share the Christian ideal of building a human customs of justice with love, peace and reconciliation for the fullness of life for all creation.

Each fellow member YMCA is therefore called to focus on certain challenges which will be prioritized according to its own context.

These principles are an evolution of the Kampala Principles

• Sharing the skillful news of Jesus Christ and striving for spiritual, intellectual and physical well-beingness of individuals and wholeness of communities.
• Empowering all to take increased responsibilities and presume leadership at all levels and working towards an equitable social club.
• Advocating for and promoting the rights of and upholding the rights of children.
• Fostering dialogue and partnership between people of dissimilar faiths and ideologies and recognizing the cultural identities of people and promoting cultural renewal.
• Committing to work in solidarity with the poor, dispossessed, uprooted people and oppressed racial, religious and ethnic minorities.
• Seeking to exist mediators and reconciles in situations of conflict and working for meaningful participation and advancement of people for their ain self-determination.
• Defending God's creation confronting all that would destroy it and preserving and protecting the world's resources for coming generations. To face these challenges, YMCA will develop patterns of co-operation at all levels that enable self-sustenance and cocky-decision.

  —Challenge 21, Earth Brotherhood of YMCAs

In 2002, the World Council in Oaxtepec, Morelos, in Mexico, called for a peaceful solution to the Eye East crunch. On 12 July 2010, YMCA of the USA rebranded its proper noun to the popular nickname "The Y" and revised the iconic red and black logo to create five colored versions.^{[27] [28]} Today, YMCAs are open to all, regardless of ability, age, civilisation, ethnicity, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation and socioeconomic background.^[29]

During the 19th Globe Council coming together in 2018 in Chiang Mai, Carlos Sanvee from Togo became the first African and electric current Secretary General of World YMCA. During the aforementioned World Council meeting, Patricia Pelton from Canada emerged as the first female President of World YMCA.

YMCA'southward 175th anniversary in 2019 was celebrated with a global gathering of the organisation's young leaders at ExCeL London from four to vii August, with three,200 people from 100 countries. The event celebrated youth leadership, and elevated the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.^[thirty] It was attended by guests including the Jayathma Wickramanayake on behalf of Office of the Secretary-General'south Envoy on Youth and María Fernanda Espinosa, the President of the United Nations General Assembly.^[31]

Global structure

A federated model of governance has created a diversity of YMCA programmes and services, with YMCAs in unlike countries and communities offering vastly dissimilar programming in response to local community needs.^[32] Financial support for local associations is derived from plan fees, membership dues, community chests, foundation grants, charitable contributions, sustaining memberships, corporate sponsors and other funding models used in the charitable sector.

YMCA globally operates on a federation model, with each contained local YMCA affiliated with its national organization, known as a National Quango. The national organizations, in turn, are affiliated to both an Area Brotherhood (Europe, Asia Pacific, the Center Due east, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Us, and Canada) and the World YMCA. The Globe YMCA is the highest affiliation body. Each local, national and regional YMCA is independent of each other, but local, regional and international cooperation, partnerships and collaborations are part of the organizations piece of work. Each National Quango is led by a National General Secretary, a office that is akin to that of a CEO. At each phase of the affiliation process, there are usually membership fees i.e. local YMCA to National Motility.

Ever since the first Earth Briefing in Baronial 1855, in Paris, the Globe YMCA has convened a Globe Conference (later renamed World Council) every three to four years and is YMCA's highest decision making forum. Every National Quango sends a delegation who hold a number of votes, which are dependent on the fiscal turnover of that National Council. The World Quango is "responsible for setting the policies and direction of the World YMCA, electing its Officers and Executive Committee, evaluating the work of the last four years, and deliberating on priorities for the next quadrennium". The next Globe Quango will have identify in 2022 in Aarhus, Denmark.^[33]

Number	Engagement	Name	Location	State
1	1855	Kickoff World Conference	Paris	2nd French Empire
2	1858	2d World Conference	Geneva	Switzerland
3	1862	3rd World Conference	London	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Republic of ireland
4	1865	4th World Conference	Elberfeld	Kingdom of Prussia
5	1867	Fifth World Conference	Paris	2d French Empire
half dozen	1872	6th World Conference	Amsterdam	Netherlands
7	1875	7th Earth Briefing	Hamburg	German Empire
8	1878	Eighth World Conference	Geneva	Switzerland
9	1881	Ninth Globe Briefing	London	United Kingdom of Cracking Britain and Ireland
10	1884	10th World Conference	Berlin	German language Empire
11	1888	11th Globe Briefing	Stockholm	Sweden
12	1891	twelfth Earth Briefing	Amsterdam	Netherlands
13	1894	13th Earth Conference	London	United Kingdom of Cracking United kingdom and Ireland
14	1898	14th World Conference	Basel	German Empire
fifteen	1902	15th World Conference	Christiania	Norway
16	1905	16th World Conference	Paris	French 3rd Commonwealth
17	1909	17th World Conference	Elberfeld	German Empire
18	1913	18th World Conference	Edinburgh	United Kingdom of Dandy Great britain and Ireland
19	1926	19th World Briefing	Helsingfors	Republic of finland
xx	1931	20th Earth Conference	Cleveland	United states
21	1937	21st Globe Briefing	Mysore	British Raj[34]
22	1955	First World Council	Paris	French Fourth Republic
23	1957	Second Globe Council	Kassel	West Deutschland
24	1961	Third World Quango	Geneva	Switzerland
25	1965	Fourth World Quango	Gotemba, Shizuoka	Japan
26	1969	Fifth World Council	Nottingham	United Kingdom
27	1973	Sixth World Council	Kampala	Republic of uganda
28	1977	7th Globe Quango	Buenos Aires	Argentine republic
29	1981	Eighth World Council	Estes Park, Colorado	United states
30, 31	1985	Ninth and 10th Globe Council	Nyborg	Denmark
32	1988	11th World Quango	Aruba	Aruba
33	1991	12th World Council	Seoul	South Korea
34	1994	13th World Council	Coventry	United Kingdom
35	1998	14th Earth Council	Frechen	Germany
36	2002	15th World Quango	Mexico Metropolis	Mexico
37	2006	16th World Council	Durban	South Africa
38	2010	17th World Council	Hong Kong	Hong Kong
39	2014	18th World Council	Estes Park, Colorado	USA
40	2018	19th World Quango	Chiang Mai	Thailand
41	2022	20th Earth Council	Aarhus	Denmark

Logo

World Alliance of YMCAs logo emblem of 1881

In 1881, 26 years after its foundation, the official emblem of the Globe Alliance of YMCAs was adopted, at the Ninth International YMCA World Briefing, in London. The circular keepsake is made up of 5 segments, one for each continent. The segments are held together by modest monograms of YMCA in dissimilar languages. As early as 1881, YMCA leaders believed the Movement could exist truly international and united across borders. In the eye is a larger monogram of X and P, Chi and Rho, Christ'due south name, equally used by early Christians. An open Bible sits on peak of the monogram, showing John XVII, Verse 21, "that they all may exist one". This was to remind YMCAs that Christ is at the middle of the Motility, a source of strength, hope and unity, binding them all together.^[35]

In 1891, Luther Gulick (doc), a physical education managing director at YMCA of the US, introduced a new emblem to correspond YMCA, an inverted red triangle. Each of the triangle's sides represented 'the whole human being' and a dissimilar aspect of YMCA'south piece of work as recognised past Gulick; Mind, Trunk and Spirit.^[36] So significant was the red triangle, it would become on to go a familiar symbol of YMCA's work on the home front and around the world during WW1 and WW2. The red triangle is still used as office of many local, national and regional YMCA logos today.

In 2010, the YMCA of the USA changed its logo to "The Y" as part of a larger brand transformation.^[37]

Activities

Accommodation

YMCAs around the world offering various types of adaptation. In some places this takes the course of upkeep accommodation available to the public such as youth hostels, or hotels which in turn generate income for other charitable activities. In England and Wales, YMCAs offering supported accommodation for vulnerable and homeless young people.^[38]

Education and academia

Multiple colleges and universities have historically had connections to YMCA. Springfield College, of Springfield, Massachusetts, was founded in 1885 equally an international preparation schoolhouse for YMCA Professionals, while one of the two schools that somewhen became Concordia University—Sir George Williams College—started from night courses offered at the Montreal YMCA. Northeastern University began out of a YMCA in Boston, and Franklin University began as YMCA School of Commerce. San Francisco's Golden Gate University traces its roots to the founding of YMCA Dark Schoolhouse on 1 November 1881. Detroit College of Law, at present the Michigan State University College of Law, was founded with a strong connectedness to the Detroit, Michigan YMCA. It had a 99-twelvemonth charter on the site, and information technology was only when it expired that the college moved to East Lansing, Michigan. Youngstown State University traces its roots to the institution of a law school by the local YMCA in 1908. The Nashville School of Law was YMCA Dark Law School until November 1986, having offered police classes since 1911 and the degree of Juris Medico since January 1927. YMCA pioneered the concept of dark schoolhouse, providing educational opportunities for people with total-time employment. Many YMCAs offer ESL programs, alternative high school, 24-hour interval care, and summertime military camp programs. In Republic of india, YMCA University of Science and Technology of Faridabad was founded in 1969. It offers various programs related to science and engineering.

American loftier school students have a chance to participate in YMCA Youth and Government, wherein clubs of children representing each YMCA community convene annually in their respective state legislatures to "take over the State Capitol for a solar day."

American students in Title One public schools are sometimes eligible to join a tutoring program through YMCA called Y Learning. This program is used to assist low-income students who are struggling in school complete their homework with help from tutors and receive a snack likewise as a safe identify to exist after school. Y Learning operates nether the primary mission of bridging achievements gaps and providing essential resources to assist underprivileged students thrive in school.^[39]

The International Coalition of YMCA Universities^[40] brings together universities from all over the world, including Brazil, England, Federal republic of germany, Hong Kong, Republic of india, Mexico, Uruguay, United States, and Venezuela. The universities offer a wide variety of courses on different levels.

Health and wellbeing

YMCA Association Men cover, June 1919

In 1891, James Naismith, a Canadian American, invented basketball while studying at YMCA International Training Schoolhouse in Springfield, Massachusetts (later on to be named Springfield Higher). Naismith had been asked to invent a new game in an attempt to interest pupils in physical practice. The game had to exist interesting, easy to acquire, and easy to play indoors in winter. In 1895, William G. Morgan from YMCA of Holyoke, Massachusetts, invented the sport of volleyball equally a slower-paced alternative sport, in which the older YMCA members could participate. In 1930, Juan Carlos Ceriani [fr] from YMCA of Montevideo, Uruguay, invented the sport of futsal, an indoor version of football, having been created in synthesis with the rules of the iii indoor sports of handball, basketball and water polo.

Public health

The organization is committed to public wellness in dissimilar ways. Information technology organizes fettle and wellness every bit well as aid and awareness programs. One of the programs is the Diabetes Prevention Program, where trained staff members assist ill persons to make their lives healthy and active.^[41]

Basketball

Basketball game was invented at YMCA, in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1891 by Dr. James Naismith, a chaplain, educator and md.^[42] Naismith was asked to create an indoor "athletic distraction" to keep rowdy youth decorated in the cold New England winter months. Luther Gulick (physician), the caput of Springfield YMCA gave Naismith 2 weeks to come up up with a game to occupy a particularly incorrigible group. Naismith decided the game had to be physically active, elementary to understand and would have minimal concrete roughness.

The first competition was played at the International YMCA Grooming Schoolhouse in December 1891.^[43] During those primeval games the school's custodian, "whose antipathy to the students was well known," retrieved successful shots from the baskets – using a ladder.^[44] The original game was played with a soccer brawl and two peach baskets nailed to the balcony of Springfield YMCA. The game was an immediate hit, although originally the baskets still had their bottoms, and the ball had to exist manually retrieved after each score, considerably slowing play. It was mostly a passing game, and dribbling did not become a major function of the game until much later, when the ball was improved to its present grade.

Gulick worked with Naismith to spread the sport, chairing the Basketball Committee of the Amateur Able-bodied Union (1895–1905) and representing the United States Olympic Committee during the 1908 Olympic Games. Naismith and his married woman attended the 1936 Summer Olympics when basketball was included for the first time as an Olympic event.^[45] For his efforts to increase the popularity of basketball and of physical fitness in general, Gulick was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame every bit a correspondent in 1959.

Volleyball

Four years subsequently James Naismith invented basketball in Springfield in 1891, William Thou. Morgan, an instructor at YMCA in Holyoke, Massachusetts, wanted to create a game for older gentlemen which had less concrete contact. He borrowed a tennis internet, raised it 6 feet, vi inches above the floor, and invented the game of "mintonette", which could be played by a group of any number and involved volleying a large ball over the net. An observer wisely suggested that a improve name for the new sport might exist "volleyball".

Racquetball

Racquetball is another YMCA invented sport. Joseph Sobek a lawn tennis, handball and squash player who worked in a rubber manufacturing factory, was dissatisfied with the options for indoor sports in Greenwich, Connecticut. He could not find squash players of his quotient and he did non care particularly for handball, so in 1950 he designed a curt, stringed racquet, used a children's toy rubber ball, and created rules for a new game using the handball courts. He called his new sport "paddle rackets". The sport really took off in the 1970s and there are an estimated xv one thousand thousand players worldwide today.^[46]

Gymnastics

Gymnastics came to be at the YMCA in 1869. 3 YMCA's; Boston, San Francisco, and New York (23rd St Branch) all congenital buildings with gyms inside. These gyms then allowed men to train on the sport of gymnastics. Although, most of the men who knew gymnastics were circus performers and did non fit the ideas and values of the YMCA. Robert J. Roberts was ane of the original circus performers at the Boston YMCA in the 1870s and 80s but he got hurt due to a fall and could not perform or teach gymnastics. This led him to start the group exercises we see at the YMCA today.^[47] Even though Robert stopped teaching gymnastics in Boston another YMCA was creating the sport of gymnastics, the Salem YMCA was holding boy/men classes equally far dorsum as 1895 where they could learn parallel and horizontal bars, "German language horse," mat exercises, juggling, and weight lifting. They would then train to perform for an audience. A few years after, gymnastics began to filter out of the YMCA due to group sports such as volleyball and basketball becoming more popular among the crowds. Gymnastics we know information technology to be today started at the Marblehead/Swampscott YMCA which is also in Massachusetts. Compared to the other YMCA'south who were stopping the sport of gymnastics held grouping classes in their basketball gym. They had to break down their equipment each 24-hour interval until their program was moved to the Salem State College in 1990. Salem State had recently dropped their higher team and the youth director at the YMCA went to see about expanding their program by renting the colleges space. Since then ii of the Marblehead/Swampscott gymnasts have gone on to be named all-American gymnasts and placed in the acme five at the National Championships. The team has as well placed in the top 10 at several National Championships.^[48]

YMCA's around the world now offering gymnastics to boys and girls of a variety of ages. Equipment now ranges from the men's events of pommel horses, parallel confined and the men's high runway to the uneven confined, balance beams, vault systems and trampolines. These YMCAs now offering camps, lessons and teams in gymnastics and cheerleading and tumbling. "Since the Y was founded, gymnastics, in its many forms, has been a large function of the YMCA. From fettle to fun, the girls and boys who participate in the programs learn skills, flexibility and goal setting through personal achievement and team accomplishments. The Y is committed to nurturing children and teens who participate in this celebrated sport. Whether kids aspire to be Olympians or just savour the physical fun, the Y is proud to take had such an impact on the sport over the last 150 years."^[48]

Futsal

"Futsal" started in 1930 when Juan Carlos Ceriani [fr], a teacher in Montevideo, Uruguay, created a version of indoor football for recreation in YMCAs.^[49] This new sport was originally developed for playing on basketball courts,[v] and a dominion book was published in September 1933.^{[ citation needed ]} Football game was already highly popular in the country and after Uruguay won the 1930 Globe Cup and aureate medals in the 1924 and 1928 Summertime Olympics, it attracted even more practitioners. Ceriani's goal was to create a team game that could be played indoor or outdoor but that was similar to football.

The YMCA spread the game immediately throughout Due south America. It was easily played by everyone, everywhere, and in any weather condition, without whatsoever difficulty, helping players to stay in shape all year round. These reasons convinced João Lotufo, a Brazilian, to bring this game to his country and adapt it to the needs of concrete education.^{[ citation needed ]}

Camping ground

Campers at a YMCA camp in Huguenot

YMCA camping ground began in 1885 when Camp Baldhead (afterward known as Military camp Dudley) was established by Thousand.A. Sanford and Sumner F. Dudley on Orange Lake in New Jersey as the commencement residential camp in Northward America in operation today.^[43] The military camp later moved to Lake Champlain near Westport, New York.^[11]

Camping too had early origins in YMCA move in Canada with the establishment in 1889 of Large Cove YMCA Campsite in Merigomish, Nova Scotia.^[50] The Montreal YMCA organisation besides opened a summertime campsite named Kamp Kanawana nearby in 1894. In 1919 YMCAs began their Storer Camps chain around the land.^[51]

Publishing

YMCA founded YMCA Press publishing house in Russia in 1900. It moved to Paris subsequently World War I, where it focused on providing intellectual and educational works to Russian émigrés. It mayhap most famously published some of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's books whilst he was imprisoned by the Russian regime.^[52]

Religion

The showtime YMCA included Bible studies, although the arrangement has mostly moved on to a more holistic approach to youth work. Around 6 years after its birth, an international YMCA conference in Paris decided that the objective of the organization should go "Christian discipleship developed through a plan of religious, educational, social and physical activities" (Binfield 1973:265).

Europe

United Kingdom

YMCAs in England and Wales offer supported accommodation for vulnerable and homeless young people, mental wellness services, youth clubs, sports centres, plant nursery schools and family back up and subsequently school clubs. Across England and Wales YMCA supports more than 18,000 young people with homes each year,^[38] and is thus one of the largest providers of safe supported accommodation for immature people. The vast majority of this adaptation is supported by a range of personal, social and educational services.

The archive of the British YMCA is housed at the University of Birmingham Special Collections. The archive of YMCA Scotland is available at the National Archives of Scotland. YMCA in the United Kingdom consists of three separate National Councils: England & Wales, Ireland, and Scotland. YMCAs in Wales joined YMCA England in 2017, leading to the National Council renaming to YMCA England & Wales.

Germany

In Frg (every bit well equally Republic of austria and Switzerland) YMCA is chosen CVJM, which stands for Christlicher Verein junger Menschen (Christian Association of Young People). Upward until 1985 the arrangement was chosen 'Christlicher Verein Junger Männer' (Christian Association of Young Men), the name alter reflected its activities being attainable to men and women.

Sweden

YWCA-YMCA of Sweden (Swedish: KFUK-KFUM Sverige ) was established in 1966 following a merger of YMCA of Sweden and the YWCA of Sweden. In 2011, the organization decided to utilize the term KFUM Sverige during promotion where Yard now stands for människor ("people") instead of män (men) every bit before. YWCA-YMCA of Sweden has 40,000 members in 140 local associations. Several Swedish YWCA-YMCA associations have been successful in sport.

North America

The starting time YMCA in N America opened in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on 9 December 1851.

United States

International (above) and American (below) logos

In the United states of america, YMCA is more ordinarily known as 'The Y' with its national office headquartered in Chicago. It has 800 separate organisational entities affiliated to its national part, based in 2,700 co-operative locations,^[53] working with 21 one thousand thousand people, to "strengthen communities through youth development, salubrious living and social responsibleness."^[54] It has about 19,000 staff and 600,000 volunteers.

Its major programs include after-school activities, twenty-four hours care, youth work and physical fitness. A large number of its service locations accept gyms, weight rooms, swimming pools, and sports courts where basketball game and other sports are played.

The first YMCA in the United States opened on 29 December 1851, in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1851 by Helm Thomas Valentine Sullivan (1800–59), an American seaman and missionary. In 1853 the Reverend Anthony Bowen founded the first YMCA for Colored Men in Washington, D.C. The renamed Anthony Bowen YMCA is even so serving the U Street expanse of Washington. It became a part of YMCA of the city of Washington in 1947. Through the middle part of the 20th century it was associated with homosexual subculture, with the athletic facilities providing cover for closeted individuals.^{[55] [56]}

YMCAs in the Us take been one of the largest charitable nonprofits in the United states of america, in terms of donations received from the general public, as listed by Forbes magazine.^[57] YMCA in the U.s. is one of the many organizations that espouses muscular Christianity.^{[58] [59] [60] [61] [62]}

Ketchum Downtown YMCA of Los Angeles, California. Notice the sometime logo on the edifice and the new logos on the posters.

Its national archives are located at the Kautz Family YMCA, a unit of the University of Minnesota Libraries Section of Archives and Special Collections.

Activities^[63]

Activities at the YMCA in the The states include aquatics, arts and humanities, camps, child care, family activities, health and fettle, and diverse sports.

Aquatics ranges from recreational classes to competitive swimming. Classes are offered for parent-child, preschool, youth, family, teen and adult. Besides as there are arthritics classes and other h2o therapies. Sure YMCA's besides offer a special olympic swim form or swim team. CPR and start aid classes are offered to not only their employees but to the public to accept as well. Away from swim classes, individuals can also take water polo lessons, water fettle lessons, or take function in the open up swim times where families can swim in a lane to themselves.^[63]

Arts and humanities at the YMCA is lessons for the members or non-members of the Y to have. These lessons range from visual arts (ceramics, drawing, painting, photography), performing arts (music, dance, poetry), and literacy arts (reading, storytelling, public readings). These programs are not offered at each YMCA simply the ones who have same to offer these programs requite a do good to their communities to give children a prophylactic place to go to enjoy such activities.^[63]

Camping at the YMCA is diverse mean solar day camps offered throughout the summertime and wintertime breaks. These day camps are for youth and teens for them to spend a summer/winter in a safe environment staying agile. There are outdoor camps where they do outdoor activities such every bit swimming, walking trails, etc., indoor camps that range from cooking to different sports (basketball, gymnastics, volleyball). At that place are also camps offered for special needs individuals, sailing camps, and family camps. Teens can also accept part in the camp counselor program where they learn near being a function of a plan during one part of their twenty-four hour period and then they are a junior army camp advisor in i of the various camps the residuum of the solar day.^[63]

Child Watch or Child Care is a condom identify at the YMCA where parents tin can leave their kid while they work out of attend a class. They offer infant, toddler, preschool and school age care. Since COVID-19, child watch is offered in diverse time slots compared to in the past where it was offered with full twenty-four hours availability. The children are able to play with other children indoors with toys or outdoors on a playground to stay agile.^[63]

Family unit programs available are family nights, parent-child classes, and different events put on past the YMCA. These events could range from a trick or treating effect, where parents can bring their child to trick or care for at the YMCA or a parent-child gymnastics grade.^[63]

Health and Fitness at the YMCA includes group exercise, lifestyle classes, personal training, strength training, weight direction, and youth fitness. Group classes offered are cycling classes, aerobics, and kickboxing. Members can take role in programs such as the Loose Large which is a program where individuals can work out with a grouping and a trainer to improve their lifestyle and lose weight. Youth fitness classes include swim, gymnastics, basketball game, etc.^[63]

Sports at the YMCA that are offered range from baseball, basketball game, gymnastics, football, wrestling, karate, volleyball, soccer, and racquetball. The programs offered depend on the location of the YMCA and the amount of space they accept for the various programs. These programs are also offered to different age groups such as preschool, youth, teen, and special needs. The goal of the YMCA is to offer these activities to all populations.^[63]

Parent/kid programs

YMCA'southward parent/kid programs, nether the umbrella programme called Y-Guides, (originally called YMCA Indian Guides, Princesses, Braves, and Maidens) have provided structured opportunities for fellowship, camping, and customs-building activities (including craft-making and community service) for several generations of parents and kids in kindergarten through 8th class.^[64]

After-school programming

YMCA after-school programs are geared towards providing students with a variety of recreational, cultural, leadership, academic, and social skills for development.

Residences

Until the late 1950s,^[nine] YMCAs in the United States were built with hotel-like rooms called residences or dormitories. These rooms were built with the young men in mind coming from rural America and many foreign-born immature men arriving to the new cities. The rooms became a significant part of American culture, known as an inexpensive and safe place for a visitor to stay in an unfamiliar city (as, for case, in the 1978 Hamlet People song "Y.K.C.A."). In 1940, there were about 100,000 rooms at YMCAs, more than than any hotel chain. By 2006, YMCAs with residences had go relatively rare in the United states, but many still remain.^[65] YMCA of Greater Seattle turned its former residence into transitional housing for former foster care and currently homeless youth, aged 18 to 25. This YMCA operates 6 transitional housing programs and twenty studio apartments. These services are offered at their Young Adult drop-in center in Seattle, Washington.^[66]

Canada

YMCA Canada was established over 160 years ago as a charity.^[67] Today, there are 44 YMCAs and five YMCA-YWCAs in Canada that offering programmes and services tailored to each community'due south needs. Together they serve 2 meg people in more than than ane,000 communities beyond Canada.^[67] Bachelor programs include

• Children and Youth
• Health, Fettle and Recreation
• Childcare
• Mean solar day and Resident Camping
• Employment Training
• Community Outreach and Newcomer Services
• International Evolution and Education
• Leadership Evolution and Recognition

YMCA financial assistance programs help to make YMCA accessible to anybody.^[68]

Its archives are held by Library and Archives Canada. Until 1912, when Canadian YMCAs formed their own national council, YMCAs were jointly administered by the International Committee of the Young Men'southward Christian Associations of Due north America.

United mexican states

Mexico's first YMCA branch opened in Mexico City in 1902 for the American community. By 1904, there were two more branches in United mexican states City and 1 co-operative established in Monterrey. In 1907, another branch in Chihuahua was set upwards and and so 1 YMCA in Tampico. In Mexico, YMCA organized physical activeness, individual evolution, and national progress. There was advertizing for YMCA programs that would help immature men gain life skills and YMCA as well had some activities for women. For example, an circuit to Xochimilco in 1910 featured races for boys and girls and indoor baseball for everyone. Although, YMCA had very piffling influence on rural United mexican states until subsequently the Mexican Revolution.^[69]

Panama

In 1904, a letter was written by the chief engineer of the Panama Canal Zone, John Findley Wallace, to Admiral J.Yard. Walker, chairman of the Isthmian Culvert Commission, recommending that YMCA be brought to the Canal Zone. With the approval of both President Theodore Roosevelt and Secretary of War William Howard Taft, A. Bruce Minear, an experienced secretary, was sent to organize the clan piece of work in the Canal Zone.^[70] Structure was started on YMCA clubhouses in Culebra, Empire, Gorgona, and Cristobal, Panama, as well every bit in Panama Urban center. These clubhouses were operated by YMCA for several years and were financed by the Canal Zone, they contained billiard rooms, an assembly room, a reading room, bowling alleys, dark rooms for the camera clubs, gymnastic equipment, an ice foam parlor and soda fountain, and a circulating library.^{[ citation needed ]} By 1920, there were ix buildings in functioning in the Canal Zone.

Former YMCA building in Panama Canal Zone

Panama YMCA was founded on 24 May 1966.^[lxx] The 1968 impeachment of President Marco Aurelio Robles and the ensuing riots and political unrest impacted YMCA's work and the after-school programs at Panama YMCA were cancelled. Use of the school equipment, such equally the pool and gym, greatly helped YMCA'south ability to continue on with the swimming classes and summertime programs. These programs remained pop throughout this fourth dimension.

In 1983, planning was started for the integration of Panama YMCA and the American Services YMCA (ASYMCA). The integration of the remaining 2 ASYMCAs, the Balboa Co-operative and the Cristobal Branch, with the Panama Co-operative, a merger that was completed in 1990.

YMCA Panama continues its work for the edification of today's society. In 2005, YMCA Panama inaugurated the new YMCA Panama School located on Colinas del Sol, in the Nuevo Chorrillo District of Arraijan.

South America

Argentine republic

YMCA developed in 1902 in Argentina, where it provided support for physical educational activity teachers. YMCA was about notable in encouraging women'southward sports in Due south America, and during the early on 1900s, YMCA in Argentina highly promoted basketball game, swimming, and track and field. There were many victories for the development of sports in Argentine republic due to YMCA, such as Frederick Dickens, who served as the director of physical education at the Buenos Aires YMCA. Dickens eventually led the Argentine Olympic delegation to Paris in 1924 and Amsterdam in 1928.^[69]

Brazil

YMCA developed in 1893 in Brazil and volleyball was deemed appropriate for women from the start. Through the encouragement of YMCA, concrete educators promoted women's volleyball in schools similar Escola Wenceslau Braz and Colégio Sylvio Leite in Rio. Sports clubs even began to organize events for women because of YMCA's influence.^[69]

Peru

YMCA Republic of peru has a team of 200 employees and a voluntary body of more than 700 people.^[71] The organization describes its mission every bit "Having a positive impact on the young people and then they have the volition to transform the Peruvian social club".^[72] YMCA Peru was created on 17 May 1920. It has presence in the departments of Lima, Arequipa, and Trujillo.^[72]

Africa

Africa Brotherhood of YMCAs logo

YMCAs in Africa are united under the Africa Alliance of YMCAs (AAYMCA).^[73] The cadre focus of the organizational work done past the AAYMCA is youth empowerment. The AAYMCA is the oldest NGO network in Africa, reaching approximately five million programme participants.^[74] The first YMCA in Africa was established in Liberia in 1881,^[75] and the AAYMCA was founded in 1977 as the umbrella body for all national movements on the continent.^[75] The AAYMCA collaborates with national movements to behave research, develop localized as well as continental programming, monitor and evaluate progress, and communicate bear on of youth development work undertaken on the continent.^{[75] [76] [77]} From 2015, the Africa Alliance of YMCAs has aligned much of its programmatic work to some of the goals gear up out by the African Marriage's Agenda 2063 Development Plan in social club to contribute towards the achievement of the ideals envisioned by the African Renaissance.^[78]

Subject to Citizen Change Model

Many of the Africa YMCA projects and programmes are influenced past the Field of study to Citizen (S2C) Alter Model. The S2C Modify Model focuses on Vocalism, Infinite and the Power to Influence as elements in a potent and proven framework for constructive youth civic engagement. From the personal and internal to the external, S2C provides youth with the skills, back up and confidence they need to create and negotiate their own solutions. S2C develops cocky-assured leaders and civically engaged youth who work to positively influence their own lives and the lives of those around them.^{[79] [80]}

African YMCA movements

Active movements: Republic of angola, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Liberia, Madagascar, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, The Republic of the gambia, Togo, Republic of zambia, Zimbabwe^{[75] [81]}

Associate movements: Niger, Rwanda, South Sudan^[81]

Movements in formation: Malawi, Namibia^{[ citation needed ]}

Asia Pacific

YMCA Headquarters, Peking

YMCA Mysore, India

Hong Kong

YMCA Hong Kong was established in 1901, existence separated into two separate organizations in 1908, carve up across linguistic lines: "YMCA of Hong Kong" and "Chinese YMCA of Hong Kong". YMCA Hong Kong headquarters has occupied its current location at 22 Salisbury Route, Tsim Sha Tsui since 1922. YMCA Hong Kong established the Higher of Standing Education in 1996^[82] and YMCA of Hong Kong Christian College in 2003.^[83]

Nobel Peace Prize laureates

• 1901: Henry Dunant, who co-founded the Geneva YMCA in 1852 and was one of the founders of the Earth YMCA, was awarded the starting time-ever Nobel Peace Prize for founding the International Committee of the Blood-red Cross in 1863, and inspiring the Geneva Conventions (Conventions de Genève). He shared the prize with Frédéric Passy, founder and president of the first French peace society.
• 1946: John R. Mott, US, president of the World YMCA, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his "long and fruitful labors in cartoon together the peoples of many nations, many races and many communions in a mutual bond of spirituality." John R. Mott also played an important function in the founding of the Earth Student Christian Federation in 1895, the 1910 World Missionary Conference and the World Council of Churches in 1948.

Meet also

• Make clean living motility
• Listing of recreational organizations
• Listing of YMCA buildings
• New York Society for the Suppression of Vice
• Polish YMCA
• TUXIS
• YMCA of Greater New York
• YMCA SCUBA Program

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Sources and farther reading

• Alleman, Nathan F., and Dorothy E. Finnegan. "'Believe you have a mission in life and steadily pursue it': Campus YMCAs presage student development theory, 1894–1930." Higher Teaching in Review vi.one (2009): 33+ online.
• Baker, William J. "To Play or to Pray? The YMCA Question in the United Kingdom and the U.s.a., 1850-1900". International Journal of the History of Sport 1994 xi#i: 42-62
• Fischer-Tiné, Harald, Stefan Huebner and Ian Tyrrell, eds. Spreading Protestant Modernity: Global Perspectives on the Social Piece of work of the YMCA and YWCA (c. 1889–1970) (University of Hawai'i Press, 2020) abstract.
• Garnham, Neal. "'Both praying and playing:' Muscular Christianity" and the YMCA in north-e canton Durham." Periodical of Social History 35.two (2001): 397-407, in England. online
• Hopkins, Charles Howard. History of the YMCA in Due north America (Association Printing, 1951), a standard scholarly history History of the Y.Grand.C.A. in North America.
• Hosgood, Christopher P. "Negotiating Lower-Center-Class Masculinity in Britain: The Leicester Young Men'southward Christian Clan, 1870-1914." Canadian Periodical of History 37.2 (2002): 253–274.
• Lord, Alexandra Yard. "Models of masculinity: sex educational activity, the United states of america Public Health Service, and the YMCA, 1919–1924." Journal of the history of medicine and allied sciences 58.2 (2003): 123–152. online
• Macleod, David I. Edifice character in the American boy: The Male child Scouts, YMCA, and their forerunners, 1870-1920 (Univ of Wisconsin Press, 2004), a standard scholarly history.
• Muukkonen, Martti (2002). Ecumenism of the Laity: Continuity and Change in the Mission View of the Earth's Alliance of YMCAs, 1855–1955 (PDF). Academy of Joensuu. Publications in Theology 7.
• Putney, Clifford Due west. "Going Upscale: The YMCA and Postwar America, 1950-1990". Journal of Sport History twenty#ii 1993, pp. 151–166. online
• Vertinsky, Patricia, and Aishwarya Ramachandran. "The 'Y' Goes to India: Springfield College, Muscular Missionaries, and the Transnational Circulation of Physical Culture Practices". Journal of Sport History 46#3 2019, pp. 363–379. online
• Watson, Nick J., Stuart Weir, and Stephen Friend. "The evolution of muscular Christianity in Victorian United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland and beyond." Journal of religion and society 7 (2005) pp 7–21.online.
• Winter, Thomas. "Personality, Character, and Self-Expression: The YMCA and the Construction of Manhood and Class, 1877-1920." Men and Masculinities 2.3 (2000): 272–285.

Master sources

• The Report of the Thirteenth Triennial International Conference and Jubilee Celebration of Young Men's Christian Associations. London: Jubilee Council. 1895.

External links

Wikimedia Eatables has media related to YMCA.

• Official website
• Additional athenaeum about the importance of YMCA to Chicago Archived 31 August 2013 at the Wayback Machine, IL and to the African American History.

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