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YMCA graphic. Healthy Habits Start Early, Childhood Obesity Awareness Month. Featuring an image of a child smiling.
SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Refresh Healthy Habits this School Year with the Y

September is Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, and as children and families start their new school-year routines, it’s a perfect time...
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Picture of Y volunteers at a food distribution event in the KC metro. Text: "2024 Bayer Fund grant recipient"
JULY 17, 2024

YMCA of Greater Kansas City Receives $20,000 Grant from Bayer Fund

Donation to help fight food insecurity (Kansas City, Mo.) – The YMCA of Greater Kansas City announced today it received...
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Text: "New Digs Alert. YMCA of Greater Kansas City Association Resource Center Moving!" with Y logo.
JULY 12, 2024

New Digs Alert

YMCA of Greater Kansas City Association Resource Center Moving NEW ADDRESS: YMCA of Greater Kansas City6901 Shawnee Mission ParkwaySuite 300Overland...
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Angie Lassley, first woman Chief Operating Officer
JULY 5, 2024

Y Names First Woman to Serve as Chief Operating Officer

Angie Lassley will join the YMCA of Greater Kansas City as the first woman to serve as Chief Operating Officer...
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Indoor Triathlon at the Y
JUNE 24, 2024

RACE TO THE FINISH: Tri at the Y Indoor Triathlon at the Bonner Springs Family YMCA

Tri at the Y Indoor Triathlon Sunday, October 27 Bonner Springs Family YMCA2251 S 138th Street Bonner Springs, KS 66012 Get...
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Runners cross the finish line of the Amelia Earhart Run in front of the Atchison Family YMCA/Cray Community Center
JUNE 20, 2024

Run in Atchison: Amelia Earhart 2K/8K Run is Saturday, July 20, 2024

Get active and join us on Saturday, July 20, 2024, for the Atchison Family YMCA/Cray Community Center’s Annual Amelia Earhart...
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Kansas City YMCA graphic featuring two women smiling and clapping their hands to a person whose back is facing the camera. They are in front of a YMCA sign saying "hello" in many different languages. There's a bottom text banner saying "Immigrant Heritage Month".
JUNE 3, 2024

Celebrating Immigrant Heritage Month at the Y

June is Immigrant Heritage Month. The YMCA of Greater Kansas City is celebrating the YMCA’s long history of helping immigrants...
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Y Graphic with text "Everyone Deserves a Healthy Home. National Healthy Homes Month."
JUNE 3, 2024

Eight Tips for Healthy Homes Month

Help yourself to a healthy home! You take care of your family by eating healthy and staying active – but...
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