IMPACT NOVEMBER

WEEK 1

Every day, the YMCA Mobile Market truck makes a variety of stops to provide access to fresh, healthy, affordable foods to those living in food deserts. Check out the above video to learn more.

We need your help! By supporting Mobile Market, you help strengthen the lives of each individual at each stop!

• $150 / day supports the Mobile Market Program
• $750 per week supports the entire program across all stops

Gifts big or small add up to lasting change and stronger communities!

At the Y, we know many of our neighbors live in food deserts where access to fresh, high-quality food is limited. By mobilizing our efforts, the Chattanooga Mobile Market has served 3,600 residents across 12 sites. Providing families with affordable, nutritious food empowers them to adopt healthier eating habits.

WEEK 2

          The Miracle League serves children and adults who suffer from any physical or mental disabilities, which causes them to be excluded, whether intentionally or not, from conventional baseball leagues. By using a custom-designed, rubberized turf field, players with wheelchairs or other assertive devices while can safely play the sport of baseball.

Miracle League- Chattanooga, TN from YMCA of Metropolitan Chattanooga on Vimeo.

We need your help! By supporting The Miracle League, you help change the lives of children and adults with disabilities!

• $65 to support one player for an entire season
• $800 to support one team for the entire season

Gifts big or small add up to lasting change and stronger communities!
 

Miracle League of Chattanooga gives participants the opportunity to make new friends, build self-esteem, play the sport of baseball, and be treated just like other athletes. To help the athletes, the Miracle League uses a “buddy” system – pairing each player with an able-bodied peer. The result is a bond that cannot be described.

Players living with physical or cognitive disabilities, such as down syndrome, autism, cerebral palsy, and amputation can show off their skills and love of competition on the ball field all season!

WEEK 3

The purpose of the Food RX course is to introduce participants to research, recipes, tips, and accountability for beginning to take control of their health through what you consume. The scope of the FoodRx class ranges from nutritional education all the way to food preparation and grocery shopping.

We need your help! By supporting Food RX, you help others lead healthier lives!

• Help us 'cook' up even more! Every single dollar raised is going to meet our goal of funding a new kitchen.
• As little as $60 helps sponsor an individual to take a Food RX course

Gifts big or small add up to lasting change and stronger communities!

The Food Rx program, in partnership with True Health Journey, has served 100 people in the past year with the instruction from Christine Smith, RN, BS, Certified Health Coach —with direction from doctor of Lifestyle Medicine, Dr. Suzannah Bozzone. The class continues to be in high demand, and we are thankful to be able to serve the general public as well as Y members who are working to build themselves a healthier life and manage chronic disease. In the last several decades, research has revealed utilizing a plant-based diet can reduce and reverse several forms of chronic disease.

WEEK 4 

Nurturing the potential of all youth is at the heart of our mission at the YMCA. Because of the Y, more young people are exploring their unique talents, interests and making smarter life choices.

YCAP from YMCA of Metropolitan Chattanooga on Vimeo.

We need your help! By supporting Youth Development Programs, you impact the lives of so many children and teens!

• By donating $1500 to YCAP you will sponsor one child for six months of services
• As little as $600 will help a child attend YMCA Camp Ocoee
• By giving $65 you would sponsor one child to play Youth Sports for a season
• Donating $70 will help a child learn to Swim
• A small gift of $25 would sponsor one week of Afterschool Care for a Scholarship Family

Gifts big or small add up to lasting change and stronger communities!

Each year, the Y involves hundreds of children and teens in programs like these below:

• YCAP (Youth Community Action Project)
• YMCA Camp Ocoee
• Summer Day Camp
• Youth Sports
• Teen Programs like Open Air Academy
• Preschool
• Miracle League
• Child Watch & Parents Night Out
• Afterschool Programs