I’ve just returned from Vancouver where Management Resource Centre (MRC) CEOs, MRC coordinators and national staff worked together on the finer details of Focus 2010-2011, our newly-approved strategic plan update. You’ll recall that the plan organizes our work into five strategic priorities: the National Resource Creation and Capacity Building (NRCCB) Initiative, the YMCA brand, the [...]
Monday, July 12, 2010
Our American YMCA colleagues made a big decision yesterday at their 2010 General Assembly in Utah. After an intensive two-year process, they decided to pursue a new brand strategy. It includes simplifying their story, calling themselves the “Y”, and changing their logo. The strategy also has implications for how they are governed and structured. The New York [...]
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Here we are! The National Council of YMCAs. 250 YMCA leaders, including 40 young people, from 53 Associations. Volunteers and staff together. Retirees like Joe Walker from Peterborough, Ontario. Friends and supporters, like Jowi Taylor (with Voyageur in its bright yellow case) and a legion of red-shirted facilitators from MASS LBP. See the circle of Muskoka [...]
Monday, May 24, 2010
In less than a week, the National Council of YMCAs will be in session. This annual general meeting of representatives from 53 Associations is always a time to reconnect, renew friendships and make new ones, and conduct the business of our federation. This year, it will be this and more. A record number of delegates [...]
Friday, May 7, 2010
The YMCA of Simcoe/Muskoka’s Tom Coon and nine other volunteer and staff leaders are returning to Canada today after a week in Ghana. Tom, who is also the chair of YMCA Canada’s international workgroup, sent this report: So many resources, so few resources … Africa is such a continent of contrasts. Rich in people [...]
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
The letter to the YMCA of Greater Vancouver’s Board of Governors was explicit. All monies received are to be invested, together with the accumulated interest, and left to grow until such time as there are sufficient funds available to build a Downtown YMCA large enough to meet the needs of the City at the time [...]
Thursday, April 22, 2010
It is my pleasure to introduce YMCA Canada’s new Senior Vice President for Federation Strategy: Laura Palmer Korn. Like many Canadians, Laura first connected with the YMCA as a youth leader, swim instructor and camp counselor. Her YMCA career began in 1972 with the YMCA of Greater Toronto as a coordinator for child, youth and [...]
Friday, April 16, 2010
En route home from the NAYDO conference in North Carolina last weekend, I marked my 100th day at YMCA Canada. This milestone is only important in so far as it reminds me that it is time to give you a report on the five priorities outlined at the start of the year. We have [...]
Friday, March 19, 2010
I’ve been on the road for much of the past two weeks — Tijuana for a Prairies MRC-Mexico partnership meeting, Victoria for YMCA Canada’s Board of Directors meeting, Montréal for an MRC CEOs meeting before heading home to Toronto for an Ontario MRC meeting. In these gatherings, I had the chance to see the change [...]
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
This Sunday, we’re convening our YMCA Chief Executive Officers Forum at the Banff Centre in Alberta. For a day and a half, we’ll be working together to:
Thursday, September 9, 2010
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