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Alliance Cost Containment (ACC), a cost reduction consulting firm, has launched a national buying group for YMCA organizations around the country. The purpose of the group is to leverage aggregate buying power and provide lower purchasing costs for member YMCAs. The new entity is known as Your Purchasing Group, or Ypurchasing. Ypurchasing came into being…
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Ypurchasing (YPG) is excited to announce that our new YMCA Member Portal. The Ypurchasing team has worked hard to produce a useful, secure member portal where Ypurchasing members can access useful resources about their membership, along with their individual YMCA group savings reports and audits. Members can use the forum to connect with other YMCA…
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SUMMIT, NJ – Driven by its stated mission and goal to include welcoming and inclusive activities, programs and services in its daily interactions and practices — and, as one of the first Diversity & Inclusion Global Innovation Networks in New Jersey — the Summit Area YMCA will host its first-ever ‘Celebrate PRIDE’ event June 15, from 4 – 7 p.m., at Columbia Park in…
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Original Source… By Melanie Feuk – Published 12:00 am, Monday, June 11, 2018 Staff members worked until Sunday night, June 3, to prepare the Lake Houston Family YMCA facility for its grand reopening in Kingwood the next morning. On Monday, June 4, the Lake Houston Family YMCA reopened its doors after a 9-month closure due to…
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Do you have a copier program in place? How much are you paying per clicks? Are you printing more black and white or color copies? When was the last time you spoke to your copier rep? If you haven’t considered a copier program yet, YPurchasing has a program available. To learn more about the Copier…
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Originally Published 5:22pm, June 12, 2018 Evansville Courier & Press by John Martin EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Apropos for the occasion, Beth McFadin Higgins used workout lingo to describe how the new YMCA building will impact Evansville. The $18 million facility will “strengthen the core” of the city, said McFadin Higgins, president of the Southwest Indiana Regional…
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Originally Published 12:54am June 17th, 2018 by Wichita Falls Times Record News After years of planning and hard work, the YMCA staff proudly invites the community to the grand opening of the first new facility of the organization’s capital project, the Stephens Family Gymnastics Center. The ribbon-cutting ceremony will be 5:30-7:30 p.m. June 19 at…
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Originally Published June 16th HeraldMailMedia.com by Dan Dearth Crusaders against cancer raised $130,000 during Relay for Life this weekend at the Hagerstown YMCA. Laurie Frey, a senior community development manager for the American Cancer Society in Frederick and Washington counties, said Saturday night that the event, in its 22nd year, fell a little short of…
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Originally published 11:00pm on June 15th, 2018 MyWebTimes.com by Dave McClure To the casual observer a YMCA may look like another fitness facility. A roomful of treadmills and stationary bikes, gyms, a swimming pool, all used by paying members to keep in shape. But there is more to the Y than meets the eye.…
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