Family YMCA of Greater Augusta

We are thrilled to announce Catie McCauley as our new President & CEO beginning January 1, 2025! With 25+ years of YMCA experience, Catie has driven growth, partnerships, and support for our community. We’re eager for her leadership as we continue to expand our impact. Catie will succeed Danny McConnell who will retire in December after a 40+ year career at the Y! "I am honored to build on Danny McConnell’s legacy and lead our YMCA into an exciting future. My dedication to community impact and organizational excellence remains steadfast, and I am eager to deepen our partnerships across the Greater Augusta area. Together, we will continue strengthening our community and expanding the vital work of the YMCA.”

JOIN The Family YMCA FOR A VOLUNTEER DAY WITH JA of Georgia! We are looking for some more volunteers tomorrow! This is very rewarding and you don’t have to have any previous experience. Tomorrow’s generation of leaders are in our classrooms today. The world they will enter after graduation is changing more rapidly than ever before. With your help, we can cultivate future-ready students with the mindsets, competencies, and confidence to flourish. How do I sign-up? https://lnkd.in/ejvUgQb4 When? In-Person | Wed, October 30th | 8:15 am - 2:30 pm Where? Evans, GA | JA Discovery Center of the CSRA

While this year’s Duck Dash festival won’t take place in person, we’re excited to still host the rubber duck race virtually on November 6! The event will be live-streamed from the Aiken County YMCA’s lazy river, where we’ll race the ducks and award fabulous prizes from our sponsors. Join the fun on the Family YMCA of Greater Augusta’s Facebook page at 12 PM! As you know, the Duck Dash event helps raise awareness and funding for the Y’s A Place to Dream program. In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, we’ve seen a rise in applications, and the need for beds continues to grow. Many families lost their beds due to damage from the storm, making your support for this vital program more important than ever. Thanks to your support of the 2024 Duck Dash, we’re able to provide much-needed beds to families in need and respond quickly to this growing demand. Our mission and commitment to strengthening the community is stronger than ever. We hope you’ll consider supporting next year’s Duck Dash event on October 4, 2025.

The Y is proud to donate several more pallets of water to WNC! Thank you KAMO Facility Solutions & Supplies for providing the means for us to transport another truckload of water to our friends at YMCA of Western North Carolina. We still have more water to donate! If your company has the means and would like to partner with us to transport, please call us at 706-922-9603.

While things look more normal here in Augusta, there's still a long road to recovery in WNC. We are incredibly fortunate that our Y and community stepped-up to provide water to our North Carolina neighbors!

We are going to sound like celebrities at an award show because we still have so many people to thank for their help in our hurricane recovery: Thank you Augusta Bottling Co., Enmarket, Georgia Power, Plant Vogtle and Augusta Fire Department for donating water, nonperishable food and other items for the Y to distribute to those in need. Thank you Athens YMCA, Columbia YMCA and Khayamadi Foundation for volunteering with our food program. Thank you to the Community Foundation for the CSRA for providing us a grant from the Hurricane Helene Community Crisis Fund. Thank you Golden Harvest Food Bank for partnering with us to get food where it was needed. A HUGE thank you to our amazing board members and staff who stepped up to serve our community. To all the people and organizations that partnered with us or donated to our hurricane relief efforts, THANK YOU. The success and speed of our Hurricane Helene recovery efforts would not have been possible without these amazing groups stepping up. #ThankfulThursday

In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, food insecurity in rural communities is greater than ever before. Over the past few days, our Y has helped ease that burden for many families by delivering food and water from Golden Harvest Food Bank to areas in need. #TheYFeedsKids - 3 buses and 3 vans to Windsor, SC - 4 buses to Vineyard Vineyard Church in Waynesboro - 3 vans to First Mt. Carmel Baptist Church in Appling You can support our Disaster Relief Efforts by donating at https://lnkd.in/e4zt4Vzx.

Imagine sharing a single bed with 5 of your siblings or sleeping with nothing but a blanket, and then being expected to focus in school day-in and day-out. That's what thousands of children right here in the CSRA are dealing with. The Y's A Place to Dream program gives these children safe spaces to recharge and rest at night. You can support A Place to Dream by participating in the Augusta Duck Dash on Oct. 12 - https://lnkd.in/etEFaR3m.

Sponsorship opportunities are still available for the Augusta Duck Dash presented by Wellstar! This fundraising event benefits the Y's A Place to Dream program, which provides beds to children in need and, in partnership with Wellstar, portable cribs for infants to reduce the risk of SIDS. Learn more at https://lnkd.in/eHdDMbEu, or give us a call at 706-922-9656.