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Community Support Campaign

Building strong kids, strong families and strong communities is what the Palo Alto Family YMCA strives to do every day. Through meaningful engagement of every community member we come in contact with, the YMCA empowers people of all ages to be the best person they can be. This, in turn, strengthens the community in which we live.

One of the most important ways in which we build strong communities every year is through the Community Support Campaign. Every winter, nearly one hundred YMCA volunteers reach out into the community to ask members and supporters to further the YMCA's mission by making a donation. The money raised in the Community Support Campaign provides vitally needed programs to thousands of members and program participants, keeping program fees as low as possible, Financial Assistance makes it possible to provide even lower fees to low income individuals and families based on family size and income and YMCA resources. Last year more than $350,000 was provided through some 500 grants.

For more information about the Community Support Campaign or how to give to the Palo Alto Family YMCA, please contact Judith Don

100% of the money raised through the Community Support Campaign goes directly to financial assistance and program subsidies.

How Your Dollars Help

VENTURA YOUTH ACTIVITY CENTER - $25,000: Provides 12-months of after-school & summer programs and guidance to lower-income teens. 4 gifts of $25,000 needed.	ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FITNESS INITIATIVE $3000 - Provides structured group sports activities to 10 elementary schools. 5 gifts of $3000 needed.
HENRY PAGE COMPUTER LAB $20,000 - overcoming the digital divide by providing year round equipment and staff for the Henry Page Ventura Computer Lab. 3 gifts of $20,000 needed.	SPRING COLLEGE TOUR $ 2500 - Provides a five day tour of six colleges to 15 teenagers who would often be the first in their family to attend college. 3 gifts of $2500 needed.
ADAPTIVE WELLNESS $15,000 - Provides specialized exercise equipment and recreational activities for people with limitations and chronic illnesses. 2 gifts of $15,000 needed	FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE $1,000 - Will provide 7 youth memberships or 10 registrations in our Youth Basketball Program. 20 gifts of $ 1,000 needed.
YOUTH & GOVERNMENT $10,000 - Underwrites the cost of weekly meetings for fifty teens to prepare to support candidates and legislation at the Model Legislature in Sacramento 5 gifts of $10,000 needed.	TEEN NIGHTS $500 - Builds developmental assets through social activities at the YMCA on the first Friday of the month for any teen in the community. 12 gifts of $500 needed.
YOUTH & FAMILY CAMP $ 6,000 - Enables the YMCA to organize camps such as Camp Surf, Camp Redwood, Camp Fox and Sequoia Lake Family Camp. 20 gifts of $6,000 needed.	FAMILY MEMBERSHIP ASSISTANCE $150 - Provides financial assistance to make possible a 3 month membership for every member of a limited income. 200 gifts of $150 needed.
DAY CAMP $3,000 - Provides a week of affordable full-day summer camp for 20 children of working parents. 10 gifts of $ 3,000 needed.