A BETTER YOU
MAKES A BETTER
US
YMCA OF LINCOLN 2019 COMMUNITY IMPACT REPORT
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Dear YMCA Friends, Here at the Lincoln YMCA we are constantly working hard to find new ways to strengthen our community. We never lose sight of the people who look to better themselves by walking through our doors, attending our camps, sitting in our classrooms, or stepping foot on our ball fields. These are the people we think about as we strive to go the extra mile to support them in reaching their goals.
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This year, the Lincoln Y continued to grow and build healthy foundations that enrich youth development, improve healthy living, and ignite social responsibility. This growth allows us to keep a keen focus on the people who count on us. We are proud to share with you a snapshot into the life of your Y over the past year. You are an important part of what makes the Y great and we appreciate your commitment, participation, and support. We are pleased that we can all share the belief that “A Better You Makes a Better US�!
BARBARA BETTIN YMCA President/CEO
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STACY BRASS
Chair, Board of Directors/CVO
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YOUTH DEVELOPMENT STORY OF IMPACT
In 2014, Anthony and Angela Skalka signed up as Lincoln YMCA members as a way for them and their two young daughters to get healthy. For years, the family of four’s membership went largely unused until 2018 when their oldest daughter, Maddie was referred by a physician into the Northeast YMCA’s ENERGY Fitness Program, a collaboration between the YMCA and Children’s Hospital & Medical Center that includes a group fitness class for children and adolescents to support healthy lifestyles. In the past two years, the ENERGY program and the YMCA community had a major impact on Maddie. Not only is she a consistent participant in the ENERGY program twice a week, but she has engrained herself in the Y community, assisting staff with various projects around the facility. In addition, she is now an inspiration to younger kids that are in the program teaching them the proper way to perform the activities and support them in their journey to a healthier lifestyle. Today, the entire Skalka family participates in Y activities five to six nights each week at four different Lincoln locations. This lifestyle change has led the family to lose over 100 pounds and feeling great about the way their healthy story has unfolded.
The Y was Lincoln’s leader in teaching life-saving swim lessons to kids with more than
8,200 youth
learning how to be safe in the water in our facilities.
1,806 kids
More than had their Best Summer Ever at our Summer Day Camps and over participated in one of our high quality After School programs.
1,549 youth
30,555 kids in Y Youth Sports learned teamwork, leadership, and sportsmanship.
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HEALTHY LIVING
STORY OF IMPACT
It’s a diagnosis that could befall anyone. A mixed glioma tumor the size of two tennis balls which led to the removal of the right hemisphere of Kjell Kronn’s brain. As one might imagine, treatment like this impacts every aspect of life, including physical and social health. That’s when Kjell found the Downtown YMCA. “Coming back from cancer, I feel the Y has helped me in getting some sort of physical understanding back. After five surgeries, you don’t necessarily feel like exercising.” Kjell started small but has evolved into a regular exerciser at the Downtown Y. But the Y’s impact on his life has gone well beyond physical. It’s helped him overcome his social deficits as well. Following his surgeries, he suffers from face blindness and struggles to remember names and faces unless seeing them again and again. “The social connections I have at the Y are invaluable to me. The same people keep coming back and I have the practice I need to make a friend, in order to remember a name, to understand a face and put that into memory. My socialization at the Y was the one thing that was keeping me non-isolated from the rest of the world.” All of this is possible because of donations to the YMCA’s Annual CampaignStrong kids. Because of his disabilities, Kjell isn’t able to work in his previously held roles in journalism and shares that a Y membership would be out of the question without assistance. “I couldn’t afford this without the scholarship I’ve been given based on my disability income. I’m really grateful for that and for the people that give to the YMCA.” At the Y, Healthy Living encompasses mind, body, and spirit for all. This is possible for Kjell and others because of donations to the YMCA Annual Campaign-Strong Kids.
400
Over Y Group Exercise classes are held weekly where members dance, stretch, and lift in order to live a healthier lifestyle. Almost
109,000 individuals participated in the Y as members or program participants.
118 members participated in our Y Disease Prevention classes such as LIVESTRONG® for cancer survivors, Delay the Disease for those struggling with Parkinson’s Disease and other classes to manage diabetes and arthritis.
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SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY STORY OF IMPACT
Karsen VanScoy never forgot where she started. As a young girl playing YMCA t-ball or coach-pitch softball, the Waverly High School sophomore developed a love for sports in those dozens of games at YMCA Wright Park. Now having an accomplished career in volleyball and select softball, Karsen had an opportunity to give back to ensure more kids could discover a love for sports through the YMCA. This fall, Karsen’s high school English teacher assigned a project that charged the class to do something to benefit others. Karsen knew she wanted to use this opportunity to pass on her love for sports and immediately thought of the Y. After seeing unused equipment sitting in her garage, Karsen contacted YMCA Youth Sports about donating it to young people who could use it and reached out to others on her team and on teams across the area to take up a collection. What resulted was donations of gloves, helmets, bats, batting gloves, catchers gear and more - over three dozen pieces of equipment to help young girls and boys get started in a sport that has helped mold Karsen into the young woman she is today. In the end, Karsen received an A for her project but this project was about more than a grade. It has also sparked Karsen’s willingness to give back. She plans to keep looking for ways to leave an impact on others whenever possible whether it results in an A in English class or not.
$2,595,192
The Y provided over in program and financial assistance in 2019.
900 children
More than benefitted from Financial Assistance each month to use programs such as Before/After School care, YMCA Camp Kitaki, Youth Sports, swim lessons and more.
72,000 hours
Volunteers provided over in order to facilitate Y programs and make our community a better place! This equates to a value of over $1.8 million. 7
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Board of Directors Stacy Brass Chief Volunteer Officer, Chair
Curt Hartter First Vice Chair
Lori Druse Second Vice Chair
Kelly Wieseler Secretary
Chris Lindner Treasurer
Kent Endacott Executive Committee
Bryan Sullivan Executive Committee
Scott Wieskamp Executive Committee
Blake Anderson Dustin Bauer Kristine Dorn Megan Ehlers Matt Frederick Kaye Jesske Steve Lindgren Betty Mason Austin McKillip Chuck Norris Todd Ogden John S. Olsson Dr. Vann Price Randy Rankin Chad Wiles Frosty Anderson Committee Chair, Youth Sports
Peggy Bohrer Committee Chair, Cooper
Steve Christophersen Committee Chair, Fallbrook
Sarah Davis Committee Chair, Camp Kitaki
Michaela Emmons Committee Chair, Northeast
Nancy Kraft Committee Chair, Copple Family
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Committee Chair, Downtown
Financials as of December 31, 2019
LIABILITIES & FUND BALANCE $34,689,655
ASSETS $34,689,655
Balance Sheet, Includes Lincoln YMCA Foundation Cash & Securities
2,764,952
Current Liabilities
788,627
Other Assets
204,734
Deferred Revenue
1,365,715
Pledges Receivable
104,664
Mortgages Payable
6,979,676
Fixed Assets (Net)
31,615,305
Fund Balance
REVENUES $19,276,683
25,555,638
EXPENSES $19,276,683
General Fund Income Statement for the Year Membership
9,888,681
Personnel
8,299,983
Programs
6,788,864
Contract Services
1,501,456
Inter Branch
1,879,493
Supplies
1,213,763
Occupancy
1,909,218
Capital Costs
3,514,955
Inter Branch
1,879,493
Contributions
719,645
Other
957,815
PART-TIME EMPLOYEE of the Year
CORPORATE PARTNER of the Year
VOLUNTEER of the Year
Jenny Bane
Nick Cusick, Bison Inc.
Ted Eschliman
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LOCATIONS COOPER YMCA
Tammy Poe, Executive Director 6767 S 14th St
COPPLE FAMILY YMCA
Chris Klingenberg, Executive Director 8700 Yankee Woods Dr, Ste B
DOWNTOWN YMCA
Sharon Bredehoft, Executive Director 1039 P St
FALLBROOK YMCA
Jonathan Kottich, Executive Director 700 Penrose Dr, Ste B
NORTHEAST YMCA
Geoffrey Weller, Executive Director 2601 N 70th St
YMCA YOUTH SPORTS
Todd Johnson, Executive Director 570 Fallbrook Blvd, Ste 210
YMCA CAMP KITAKI
Jason Smith, Executive Director 570 Fallbrook Blvd, Ste 210
YMCA OF LINCOLN ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE Barbara Bettin, President/CEO 570 Fallbrook Blvd, Ste 210
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