Eastern Carolina Young Mens Christian Association Inc

Youth development: nurturing the potential of children and teens. Children from low-income families often start school unprepared. Despite progressing at the same rates as their peers during the school years, gaps widen each summer and these children fall further behind. This is known as the "achievement gap." the y's achievement gap programs are designed to support the cognitive physical and social-emotional development of youth while improving their academic outcomes via summer learning, and afterschool learning. All this while building self-confidence, self-esteem, good sportsmanship, teamwork, and fair play. Through fundraising and dedicated staff support, we awarded $117,332 in financial assistance for out-of-school programs and summer day camp. Our afterschool program had 1,785 unduplicated participants for the year, while our summer day camps had 660 unduplicated participants.

Social responsibility: giving back and providing support to neighbors. The y responds to pressing social issues nationwide and worldwide by activating resources and uniting people from diverse backgrounds for individual and collective action. Through the y's volunteer program, thousands of volunteer hours as youth sports coaches, water safety volunteers, fundraising volunteers, and policy volunteers work to benefit our community. To strengthen our capacity to engage, advocate for, and serve all members of our changing community, particularly those who are most marginalized. We had (duplicated) 585 volunteers comprising 3,365 hours of service.