As a non-profit organization, the Greenwood Family YMCA strives to fulfill our areas of focus in youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility. We’re helping to build and maintain the health of the Greenwood community through all facets of our work.
Programs
Community Health
Financial Assistance
The Y never turns anybody away. We're a non-profit agency devoted to helping the men, women, and children of Greenwood County learn and grow.
Community Health
Splash Water Safety Program
We help 1000+ Greenwood area school kids each year learn how to be safe in and around water! SPLASH is a water safety program that teaches basic water safety in pool’s, lakes, ocean, and rivers. During this program we stress and demonstrate safe swimming, boating, back yard pool safety, and beach safety.
The YMCA will be going to Ware Shoals and Ninety Six school districts during the spring of 2011. Each 5th grade class will have 4 days of instruction and then on Friday, Ware shoals will go to the Ware Shoals river to demonstrate a water rescue with Ware Shoals fire department, and Ninety Six will go to lake Greenwood and have a demonstration as well.
Food Bank
One of the most basic neccessities, food can be one of the most needed staples to many Greenwood area families. Three times a week the Greenwood Family YMCA transports Walmart donated food to the Greenwood County Food Bank that will distribute it to over 120 families a week.
Bowers Rodgers Partner
The Bowers-Rodgers Home will provide child abuse prevention and emergency shelter to abused, abandoned and neglected children from Greenwood and surrounding counties and prepare them for permanent placement. We help Bowers Rodgers by providing a place for these children to live, grow, and thrive in a safe environment.
Greenwood Humane Society Heart & Sole Dog Walk
The Greenwood Family YMCA is a host site for the local Humane Society’s Hear & Sole Dog Walk. The Humane Society of Greenwood invites everyone to join in to raise $25,000 to help support the 5,000 animals that are cared for each year at the Greenwood County Animal Shelter! It’s a great cause and we love to have the opportunity to host it.
Visit The Humane Society of Greenwood
Viking Spirit
We provided a unique physical education opportunity for local special needs students. Physical Education for special needs children develop: physical and motor fitness; fundamental motor skills and patterns; and skills in individual and group games and sports.
Relay for Life® Host
The Greenwood Family YMCA is a host site for the local Relay for Life® Relay. One day. One night. One community: By participating in an American Cancer Society Relay For Life® participants honor cancer survivors, pay tribute to the lives lost to the disease, and raise money to help fight it.
Community Prayer Breakfast
Bringing 500+ Greenwood residents together for our annual Community Prayer Breakfast, the Greenwood Family YMCA is dedicated to gathering the community in a shared demonstration of faith. Each year, we have a faith speaker for the event.
High Hopes Afterschool Tutoring Program
Our organization, volunteers, and donors are strong supports of youth development in this community. Through donor contributions, we’ve been able to support the High Hopes Afterschool Tutoring Program. It’s a daily Afterschool program that annually helps120-130 children. Our High Hopes program is at four locations throughout the community and is designed to assist low income children who need homework help and a safe place to be Afterschool.
Shuttle Service for Greenwood’s Homeless
Through St. Mark United Methodist Church Mens Crisis Program,
we provide shuttle service for Greenwood’s homeless population during parts of the year where inclement weather hits. Greenwood Family YMCA has partnered with St. Mark United Methodist Church to provide shuttle services in the mornings. A Y bus picks up the guests of the Shelter and returns them to the Soup Kitchen located at United Center for Community Care.
Volunteers needed for the 2011-2012 season! Must have a valid drivers license, provide a DMV Driver’s Record, be a YMCA Member, and be willing to spend about an hour in service to the community daily for a week. No CDL is required. We drive a 15 passenger bus every morning that the shelter has been open. (Seven days a week most weeks.) With enough drivers in our corp of volunteers, we expect to drive for a week about one week per month. Tentatively we expect the shelter to open in November and remain open through at least February.
To volunteer, see CEO Gray Stallworth.