Findlay Family YMCA Early Learning Center

Findlay Family YMCA Early Learning Center image

For 135 years, the Findlay YMCA has provided quality programs and services across an increasingly wide spectrum that encompasses fitness, education, civic service, and community health. Everyday, the Findlay YMCA is helping children stay physically and mentally healthy, families stay connected, seniors stay active, and so much more. The foundation of the YMCA’s past has and will always remain the blueprint of our future.

The Capital Campaign charts a bold chapter for the Findlay YMCA. Right now, our facilities are holding us back from being all that our community needs us to be. We are launching a $40 million capital campaign in support of a completely new Early Learning Center, brand new Downtown YMCA and much needed renovations to the East Branch YMCA.

This project will be phased to strategically meet the needs of the community. The first $10 million of the campaign will focus on the Early Learning Center. Once the ELC is finished we will move on to the Downtown YMCA & East Branch to complete the total project.

Because childcare is a critical gap in our community that impacts individuals, families, and businesses, we are prioritizing our Early Learning Center in Phase I of this campaign. No child should be without nurturing and educational care and no parent should worry about finding a safe, loving environment for their child while they are at work.

Offering expanded childcare in the new Early Learning Center lessens the stress for working families of finding quality care, thus improving families' health and financial well-being.

The ELC will be a Center of Excellence, being the elite facility in the area where teachers and future teachers alike can go to train, receive certifications and complete accreditation education.

Our new Early Learning Center will be adjacent to our Y for better, safer traffic flow. The new space will be flexible to meet any changing mix (infants, toddlers, preschool, before and after school) in the future and attracting high-quality staff.

Thank you for supporting our ongoing Capital Campaign. Looking for a different way to give or have a question? Contact Sierra Hutton, Development Director, at shutton@findlayymca.com.