The city operates a Riverwalk from downtown to Matter Park, and there is a newly renovated $ 9, 000, 000 YMCA Memorial Coliseum to honor war veterans.

California YMCA Youth & Government operates as an independently chartered YMCA.

Youth Chance High School operates through the Embarcadero YMCA and is located at that branch in San Francisco's Financial District at 169 Steuart Street.

* June 6 – George Williams founds the Young Men's Christian Association ( YMCA ) in London.

On 6 June 1844, he founded the first YMCA in London with the purpose of " the improving of the spiritual condition of young men engaged in the drapery, embroidery, and other trades.

A welcome message at the entrance of an American YMCA, with a Bible verse from Deuteronomy 28: 6.

During the January 6, 1979 episode, which featured the Village People as guests throughout the hour, the dance was performed by audience members while the group performed " YMCA.

Hornung's only child, a son, was killed at the Second Battle of Ypres on 6 July 1915 ; Hornung then began work with the YMCA in France.

On July 6, 2010, Korean and Japanese progressive Christian groups gathered in Tokyo's Korean YMCA chapter and jointly declared that the Japan – Korea Annexation Treaty was unjustified.

On July 6, 1905, Tomita and Maeda gave a judo exhibition at the YMCA in Newport, Rhode Island.

The YMCA of Greater Seattle turned their former residence into Transitional Housing for former Foster Care and current Homeless youth 18 – 25.

Trench Pen was developed into Trench Town when the colonial government's Central Housing Authority ( CHA ) initiated a model township project which included owner occupied housing, rental social housing, schools, a theatre ( The Ambassador ), a park ( Vin Lawrence Park ), YMCA & YWCA, health clinic and fire station.

A federated model of governance has created a diversity of YMCA programmes and services, with YMCAs in different countries and communities offering vastly different programming in response to local community needs.

In North America, the YMCA is sometimes perceived to be primarily a community sports facility ; in Great Britain, the YMCA is sometimes perceived to be primarily a place for homeless young people ; however, it offers a broad range of programmes such as sports, personal fitness, child care, overnight camping, employment readiness programmes, training programmes, advice services, immigrant services, conference centres and educational activities as methods of promoting its values.

All YMCA programmes have a strong importance on the values of caring, honesty, respect, and responsibility.

In the United States, the YMCA parent / child programmes under the umbrella programme called Y-Guides, ( originally called YMCA Indian Guides, Princess, Braves and Maidens ) have provided structured opportunities for fellowship, camping, and community-building activities ( including craft-making and community service ) for several generations of parents and kids in kindergarten through third grade.

The roots of these programmes stem from similar activities dating back to 1926. Notable founders of YMCA Indian Guides include Harold Keltner, a St. Louis YMCA director, and indirectly, Joe Friday, an Ojibwa hunting guide.

The YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago offers multiple leadership programmes in safe, welcoming environments throughout the city.

* January 20 – At the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts, the first official basketball game is played.

In its 20 February 1939 issue, Time Magazine quoted from Mayor Camillien Houde's speech to a YMCA audience on the subject of War in Europe:

He generously supported the local YMCA such that he came to be called the “ Father of the YMCA in the Philippines .” He died on April 20, 1939 and was buried at the North Cemetery.

Beeching ended this arrangement in April 1889, at which time the school used the YMCA field, for £ 20 per year.

NWF also created Conservation Summits ( a harbinger of eco-tourism and green living trends ) with the first Summit on July 20 – 25, 1970 at the YMCA of the Rockies, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.

" However, Willis recalls it was actually Morali who, while in the studio, asked him, " What exactly is the YMCA?

In 1933, Haines was arrested in a YMCA with a sailor he had picked up in Los Angeles ' Pershing Square .. Louis B. Mayer, the studio head at MGM, delivered an ultimatum to Haines: choose between a sham marriage ( also known as a " lavender marriage ") or his relationship with Shields.

Features include 365 apartments, 121 luxury condominiums, 16 townhomes, a YMCA facility, of retail and restaurant space, of office space, and an underground parking garage for 800 cars.

Various parts of the project were funded separately: the rental apartments were funded by bonds sold through the Port Authority to private institutional investors ; the YMCA was on a separate parcel ; and much of the other private funding came from investors as equity and from Chemical Bank as a loan.

The wholesome activities were to be provided by many organizations including the YMCA, the Knights of Columbus, the Jewish Welfare Board, the American Library Association, and the Playground and Recreation Association -- private societies which voluntarily performed the job that was taken over almost entirely by the Special Services Division of the Army itself in World War 2.

In early December 1891, Canadian American Dr. James Naismith, a physical education professor and instructor at the International Young Men's Christian Association Training School ( YMCA ) ( today, Springfield College ) in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA ), was trying to keep his gym class active on a rainy day.

The YMCA ( Young Men's Christian Association ) is also a popular sponsor for youth cheerleading leagues, as well as numerous other sports leagues.

* 1851 – The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal, Quebec.

* 1851 – The first American YMCA opens in Boston, Massachusetts.

One such situation seems to be evident in a recent case concerning alleged YMCA discrimination and a Federal Court Case in Texas.

Edgar M. Robinson and Lee F. Hanmer became interested in the nascent BSA program and convinced Boyce to turn the program over to the YMCA for development.

One of the earliest college basketball games in the United States occurred at Geneva College on April 8, 1893 when the Geneva College Covenanters defeated the New Brighton YMCA.

The Chinese YMCA Harmonica Orchestra started in the 1960s, with 100 members, most of whom played harmonicas.

* 1955 – John Mott, American YMCA leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( b. 1865 )

* 1844 – The Young Men's Christian Association ( YMCA ) is founded in London.

The organization supports Pop Warner, American Youth Football, Boys and Girls Clubs Of America, National Recreation and Park Association, Police Athletic League, YMCA, and the Amateur Athletic Union.

After the family moved from Western Pennsylvania to Chicago, Weissmüller continued swimming and eventually earned a spot on the YMCA swim team.

Realizing that an uneducated lawyer was unlikely to build a lucrative practice, Landis enrolled at Cincinnati's YMCA Law School ( now part of the University of Cincinnati ) in 1889.

* 1821 – George Williams, English founder of the YMCA ( d. 1905 )

Examples of each of these are the National Park Service, the YMCA, the Kiwanis, and Disney World.

The first SPLC case was filed by Dees against the Young Men's Christian Association ( YMCA ) in Montgomery, Alabama, that " continued to segregate children, going so far as to ban kids who swam at an integrated pool from city-wide meets.

" In 1969, the YMCA refused to allow two black children to its summer camp, and the SPLC sued on behalf of the children's parents.

In the course of the lawsuit, Dees uncovered a secret 1958 agreement between the city and the YMCA, in which city officials gave the YMCA control of many city recreational activities.

In 1972 the court ruled that Montgomery had given the YMCA control " with a municipal character ," and " ordered the YMCA to stop its discriminatory, segregationist practices.