The YMCA of Greater San Antonio & the Hill Country is firmly committed to providing quality programs and safe educational environments for all children and teens. As a nonprofit, human services association, we are acutely sensitive to maximizing resources in order to provide the best possible program for the lowest cost to participants.

Frequently, working families need help to pay for childcare, school age and teen leadership program services. Our YMCA’s annual Y Partners fundraising campaign provides scholarship dollars to children, teens and families in need of assistance to attend YMCA programs. Each family is asked to complete a scholarship application that is evaluated before financial assistance is awarded. Our YMCA provided $6.7 million in subsidized programs and program scholarships in 2002 to children, teens and families in our ten county service area.

Our YMCA has a long history of responsible management, maximizing program capacity through collaborations with schools, churches, municipal agencies, businesses and other nonprofit organizations. Our YMCA utilizes a multi-stream funding approach, with revenue sources which include the Y Partners Annual Support Campaign; Major Gifts; public grants; private foundations; United Way funds; corporate and individual contributions; and special events. Working closely with Child Care Delivery Services (CCDS), our YMCA has been successful in leveraging additional monies for San Antonio’s children, teens and families, and continues to seek assistance and support for those families in need of quality, affordable and accessible child, teen and family development services.

We are confident that our YMCA continues to be among the finest human services program providers available to families. We will continue our efforts to maintain reasonable rates, responsible stewardship, and quality child, teen and family development programs; while, at the same time, conducting ongoing outcomes assessments of programs, thus creating an ongoing program improvement process. At the YMCA we build strong kids, strong families and strong communities.