$40K donation from Kiwanis Club boosts Jackson YMCA capital campaign

Good News Notes: “A new ‘healthy living campus’ for the Jackson YMCA is closer to reality with a donation from Jackson’s Kiwanis Club. The Kiwanis Club and Kiwanis Foundation of Jackson are contributing $40,000 to the Y’s donation drive to fund a new downtown facility. It’s one of the largest donations in the two organizations’…

MLB, MLBPA make 2nd $1M donation to Negro Leagues Museum

Good News Notes: “Major League Baseball celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Negro National League by joining with the Major League Baseball Players Association to announce their second joint $1 million donation to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. “It commemorates baseball history, and it’s a tribute to African-American entrepreneurship in the culture…

Children Give Back to YMCA So Others Learn to Swim

Good News Notes: “‘A donation from children, it doesn’t get more touching than that,’ says Tom Gacse, President/CEO of the YMCA of Youngstown. So it was Friday when Kim Fowler, Program Director of Heart Reach Neighborhood Ministries brought the group of children from Rockford Village (formerly Kimmelbrook) that she brings to the Central YMCA for…

Suns Award $1 Million to the Valley of the Sun YMCA

Good News Notes: “As part of the Phoenix Suns’ “Rise Together” giving campaign, the Suns announced today a $1 million donation to the Valley of the Sun YMCA that will create an endowment fund to support programs and activities for children and families in need.  To commemorate the gift, the Suns commissioned the talented Tato Caraveo to…