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Partner With Youth Annual Giving Campaign
Help make your community a better place through the YMCA!  By giving your time, talent and/or financial support, you join thousands of who have helped the YMCA meet the needs in our community.

Every day, thousands of people come to the YMCA to participate in programs and have fun. They find what they are looking for and much more.  But for some in our community, these life changing experiences are out of their reach.  Through Partner With Youth, the YMCA annual giving campaign, we help to overcome those financial barriers and make the YMCA accessible and open to the entire community.  Partner With Youth Campaign funds are used to provide financial assistance to families and individuals who otherwise could not afford to participate.

How Can You "Create Your Own Impact"?
Here are just a few ways that you can make a difference when you give to the Partner With Youth Campaign:

• Give a child the opportunity to develop teamwork, self-confidence and fundamental skills by playing on a recreational sports team- $100
• Support a teen with the funds to participate in the annual Mission Atlanta project serving 100 of Atlanta's Inner City Youth - $250
• Help an older adult to get out of the house, make friends and socialize by participating in group activities with other adults- $258
• Create lifelong memories and friendships by sending a child to summer day camp for two weeks - $270
• Allow a disabled child an opportunity to participate in a wheelchair basketball and soccer recreation league - $350
• Strengthen a single parent family and their young children with a semester of safe after school enrichment at one of our 26 after school sites - $550
• Provide one actively invested teen an opportunity to participate in a week long mission to an international location that encourages service beyond self - $1,500
• Enroll  a child in a YMCA youth fitness program which will educe the risk of childhood obesity and diabetes - $275

Your contributions help individuals and families in our North Fulton communities.

 In 2007 more than 3000 people benefited from $367,415 in scholarships.  Below are just a few of the ways your gifts made a difference in the lives of youth and families by helping us to:

• Create  life-long memories and friendships by sending 125 children to in summer camp and youth sports;
• Give 76 youth  the opportunity to focus on changing  their exercise attitudes and adapting healthy lifestyles through the Youth Fit for Life program to combat obesity;
• Help 64 special needs children and young adults learn valuable skills and build self esteem through team sports, and social interaction programs;
• Invest in 1,600 young people by providing programs that emphasize the value of leadership, personal accountability and opportunities to become engaged citizens through service in their community;
• Engage 76 senior adults with opportunities for social interaction;
• Enrich 740 families' lives through membership in the pursuit of their personal growth and enriching their spirits minds and bodies.

Our Board of Directors has set a challenge goal for 2008 of $300,000.

Partner With Youth Annual Campaign
Ed Isakson/Alpharetta Family YMCA
3655 Preston Ridge Road
Alpharetta, GA 30005

Endowment and Planned Giving
If you are thinking about your estate plans and wish to include the YMCA in those plans, please find out more about Endowment and Planned Giving. For more information about our fundraising efforts, please contact Cady Gray-Murray at the Ed Isakson/Alpharetta Family YMCA at (770) 663-3543

VOLUNTEER AT THE ED ISAKSON/ALPHARETTA FAMILY YMCA
Member Involvement Opportunities at the Ed Isakson/Alpharetta Family YMCA:
We have several areas in which you can volunteer your time at the YMCA. Please stop by the Front Desk to fill out a volunteer application form today or call our main number at (770) 664-1220.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES:
Summer Camp:
Volunteer your time as a camp counselor for the summer and make an impact on today's youth. Volunteers needed to work and interact with children of all ages by assisting with day camp activities at Camp Big Creek.

Child Care:
Volunteers needed to read to the YMCA children in our Play Center, help with arts and crafts or just to spend some quality time with our YMCA children.

Youth Sports Coaches/Field Supervisors:
Volunteer coaches needed to coach or help assistant coach with our YMCA organized youth sports program. Come be a field supervisor at one of our sports fields.

Front Desk/Membership Greeters:
Volunteers needed to help greet and tour our YMCA members!

World of Fun:
World of Fun is a social program for teens and young adults with disabilities. Volunteers are needed to be friends and mentors to our participants. 

Special Events:
Volunteers needed to help host Special Events at the YMCA:
Partner With Youth 5K Road Race 
Contact: Cady Gray-Murrary (770) 663-3543

Polar Bear Plunge
Contact: Jonathan Lee (770) 663-3546

Prime Time:
Volunteers needed to help assist with our after school enrichment program held at 26 local Fulton County Schools. Make a difference with our children, by spending time with an elementary school aged child and assist them with their homework and other projects at the YMCA Prime Time after school program.

Volunteer Efforts
ChoicePoint and the Ed Isakson/ Alpharetta Family YMCA teens and staff, in cooperation with Hands on Atlanta, completed much needed improvements to Camp Big Creek.