Service Agency Recreation and Leisure Term Paper

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The YMCA states the following statistics:

1,712 Ys work with elementary schools;

1,406 Ys work with middle schools;

810 Ys work with homeschool programs;

1,282 Ys work with hospitals;

1,515 Ys work with churches; and 519 Ys work with juvenile courts (About the YMCA, 2007)

V. Other Services Provided by YMCA

Recreation and leisure services are only a part of the YMCA's program scope and reaches "far beyond the United States" into more than 120 foreign countries providing services to in excess of 45 million throughout the world. Other services provided include "job training, new immigrant education, teen leadership opportunities, parenting classes, social opportunities for seniors and housing." (Ibid)

VI. YMCA Economic Model

The economic model of the YMCA is one "which combines enterprise, market, sales, and charity" (Wallace, 2006 Chronicle of Philanthropy) While other organizations that provide similar services are known to exist the difference in those and the YMCA is in that the YMCA does concentrate on the market and provides services that are in demand by the population that they serve with the reasoning being as stated in the Chronicle of Philanthropy (2006) in the statement of Elston Collins, marketing and communications director at Project Open Hand. Collins relates:

we found that those customers and consumers were already engaged.

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..." In the promotion of a healthier lifestyle thus, reports Collins: "The business broke even in January, a little more than a year after its start. Total sales for 2005 were just below $600,000. The charity projects sales will reach $1.2-million this year and that the business will generate $120,000 in profits to support the organization's charitable mission." (Wallace, 2006)

Other differences in similar agencies are illustrated in the fact that the YMCA is in collaborative partnerships with schools and other community organizations to increase the stretch of provision throughout the community......

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