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BIG YEAR. WE’RE GLAD YOU’VE BEEN PART OF IT! COVINGTON FAMILY YMCA IMPACT REPORT 2020 2020 began as another busy and exciting year for the Covington Family YMCA! In January... • We celebrated the 20th year of our facility. • Our youth basketball players walked on the court during team warmups at an Atlanta Hawks game. • We held a senior luncheon featuring guest speaker Loy Turner of Longleaf Hospice. In February... • Our 2019 Community Champions, Volunteer of the Year Brad Wilson and Teen Leader of the Year Mya Crenshaw , were honored at the Cobb Galleria. Ambassador Andrew Young spoke and Mya was able to meet him. • We gathered at Oxford College for our annual Donor Appreciation Event, at which Forester Sanders received the “Youngest Fundraiser Award.” He raised over $500 for the Y at age 8! • Zaxby’s hosted a “Share the Love” event benefitting the Y, which helped us raise money and share information about our Y. • We continued our partnership with Oxford College, through which college students volunteer and get valuable experience. • Spring soccer teams began practicing and preparing for games. A BIG CHALLENGE On March 17th, we temporarily In May... closed our doors due to COVID-19. Though the Y • We reopened our doors on May 16 with safety protocols was closed, our mission became more important than in place. ever. We moved forward, focusing on three initiatives: • Though we offered group exercise classes right away, we continued to livestream online for those who could not 1. HUNGER RELIEF attend in person. 2. CHILDCARE FOR ESSENTIAL WORKERS • We began offering outdoor group exercise to increase 3. SENIOR OUTREACH social distancing and to help members to stay active. In June and July... When schools closed on Friday, March 13… • We opened Summer Day Camp at a reduced capacity. Kids • There was an immediate need for hunger relief in were excited to feel some normalcy and have a fun summer! our community, especially for school children. • We reopened our outdoor pool for members and offered • We contacted our Summer Day Camp lunch provider, water aerobics classes and private swim lessons. BOLD Ministries . With their help, we began offering lunches to children on Monday, March 16. In August... • Transportation constraints were preventing kids • We began Y Campus Connection, a childcare program that from coming to get food at the Y. The Newton includes virtual learning assistance. This program operated County School System identified the areas most in until mid-October when our Afterschool program began. need, and we used our buses to deliver lunches to those areas each day. We soon were able to include In September, October and November... family meal packs, baby items, books, toys, Easter • Thanks to willing baskets, shoes, gallons of milk, produce boxes, volunteer coaches, we school supplies and more. This program continued had a fun and safe fall until October. soccer season that ran After closing our facility in March… through mid-November. • • We entered into a new Our group exercise instructors began regularly partnership with the City teaching live exercise classes online, allowing of Covington to offer members to connect and exercise from home. • youth and adult sports Our staff members also made weekly calls to check beginning in 2021. in with seniors to lessen feelings of isolation. • Our fifth annual Turkey In April... Burn was held entirely • We began offering childcare for essential workers outdoors. Classes were and first responders, which operated 14 hours per held on the pool deck day to accommodate shift workers. This program and in the parking lot. continued through May. In • December... Our Y experienced a 14% decrease in facility • memberships due to closure. We adopted the slogan We served as a #StickWithTheY as we encouraged our members to distribution site for the keep their memberships. Empty Stocking Fund, serving 300 children. • We held our Cheerios #Stick With The Y Challenge event virtually. A BIG IMPACT 3 classes per week livestreamed since 92 facility re-opened group exercise TWO NEW classes FACEBOOK GROUPS: livestreamed while Covington Y Active facility was closed Older Adults -and- Covington Y Group Fitness

“Thanks so much for making all of Hopefully everyone this great content available for us!! knows that the My rotator cuff and I haven’t been able YMCA is so much to jump in until now. I am SO looking forward to catching up! If you hadn’t more than a gym! posted videos, I would’ve just lost These folks are like the chance altogether.” family to us, and - Bonnie, Y Member the Y serves the community in many, many “I wanted to say the biggest thank you to everyone for just being amazing in wonderful ways. general! We have truly felt so blessed by We’re sticking with this program this year as it is has been our first time having childcare outside of a the Y and I hope family member and we have felt that our you will, too! ” kids are so loved and truly enjoy being - Megan, Y Member there!” - Miranda, Camp Parent $159,380 10% 164 40% RAISED IN 2020 FOR YOUTH SOCCER ONE-WEEK DAY STUDENTS RECEIVED WH Y IT MATTERS PLAYERS RECEIVED CAMP SCHOLARSHIPS ASSISTANCE FOR ANNUAL CAMPAIGN ASSISTANCE AWARDED VIRTUAL LEARNING CAMP

COVINGTON Y ERI CHALLENGE In the midst of the pandemic, our annual event was virtual this year. We held the event in December, and participants completed the road race from anywhere. The spirit of Y support was felt as people shared their pictures and results online. “Thank you to everyone at the YMCA and to donors, $50,110 from my family to y’all! We are here at one of the sites where you deliver...my babies see y’all pull up and RAISED say, ‘yay, the bus is here!’ This is very helpful to us because my husband is on the front line and we have one car so I’m not able to drive to a site to get the FOR LOCAL CRISIS kids lunch. So thank you to everyone!” - Wendy, RELIEF EFFORTS Hunger Relief Recipient

“I want to thank the YMCA for their hard HUNGER RELIEF OUTREACH, MARCH-SEPTEMBER: work and helping feed families and give out lunches for kids. Without them a lot of kids 1,560 wouldn't have lunch. Thank you. ” - Christy, 29,255 Hunger Relief Recipient gallons of milk distributed through lunches a partnership with distributed to kids Borden Dairy 1,351 1,305 meal packs produce boxes distributed distributed through a partnership with to families Common Market

“The staff is professional, yet personal. The Y faithfully and courageously cared for our community in the time of the recent great health crisis. The philosophy of good bodies, minds and spirits never changes. The standards never vary. I can’t say enough about what the Y means to this community.“ - Hutson, Y Member A BIG THANK YOU CLAUDIA ENGELBRACHT 2020 VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR WE ARE Claudia has served as a YMCA volunteer since 2015, when she was the Team Coordinator for her son’s Y Galaxy Soccer COMPRISED OF team. Her impressive skills and kind spirit were noticed by Y staff, and she soon was asked to serve on the Board of MANY PEOPLE Management. As a Board member, she has championed the Y through fundraising, coordinating events, and providing SERVING IN endless support to the staff. Claudia spent several days this year working directly in our MANY ROLES, hunger relief efforts by making sandwiches and delivering food to underserved BUT THE neighborhoods. She currently serves as our Board Chair and is a member of the YMCA of Metro Atlanta Regional Board of COMMUNITY Management. Claudia is an invaluable asset to our Y community. She will be honored MAKES

during a virtual ceremony in February. THE Y. IN 2020, WE HAD: OF THAT TOTAL, 2818 $33,816 68 12% HOURS INVESTED ESTIMATED IN OUR Y AND WORK VALUE OF VOLUNTEERS WERE TEENS COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS 2020 COVINGTON FAMILY YMCA SUPPORTERS CORPORATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS $5,000 and above $1,000-$2,499 $500-$999 Fibervisions ‡ Advantage Fireº Baxter Bouchillon Insurance Agency, Inc. ‡ General Millsº ‡ Athens Orthopedic Clinic, PAº Covington Rotary Club ‡ Takeda Pharmaceuticalsº Batchelor and Kimballº Dan Babb State Farm Insurance Companies ‡ Three Ring Studios ‡ Beaver Manufacturing Companyº ‡ John Garrett - State Farm Agent ‡ United Way of Covington* Church of the Good Shepherd ‡ Pratt Industries, Inc.* City of Covington Downtown Authority ‡ Scott Hubbard Insurance Agency, Inc. ‡ $2,500-$4,999 Clairon Metalsº Todd Mitchell Insurance Agency ‡ ‡ Covington Family Chiropracticº Benton’s Welding Supply* Up to $499 Covington Ford, Inc.º Covington Veterinary Clinicº Covington Police Who Careº Edward Jones - Stuart Hamiltonº Berry’s Tree Farm* Ginn Chevy Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ramº Fireaway, LLCº Dr. Laurie Deemer* Jack and Jill of America, Erik Thompson Financial Strategies* ‡ K & D Shoesº ‡ East Suburban Atlanta Chapter ‡ Jones, Ewing, Dobbs and Tamplin, Inc. Omni Machine Worksº MAU Workforce Solutions* Li-Way Transfer and Storage, Inc.º One Newton Square One* Michelin Tread Technologiesº Small Business Resiliency Fund ‡ The Well Church ‡ ‡ Newton Federal Bankº Oxford College of Emory Universityº Sunbelt Buildersº RE/MAX Agents Realty, Scott Alexander*º * Gift made to the WHY IT MATTERS United Bank*º Annual Campaign Wagner Staffingº ‡ Gift made to the Y’s Crisis Response Fund Zaxby’s - Covington* º Y Cheerios Challenge sponsor 2020 COVINGTON FAMILY YMCA SUPPORTERS * Gift made to the WHY IT MATTERS INDIVIDUAL DONORS Annual Campaign $2,000 and above $250-$499 Stephanie Moore* ‡ Gift made to the Y’s Nell Orscheln* ‡ Crisis Response Fund ‡ Claudia and Mark Engelbracht* Dr. Melvin O. Baker* Denise Osborn* † Deceased Stuart and Ann Hamilton ‡ Donald Boyd* Jack Parson, Loucy and Sam Hay ‡ Kacie Brown* in memory of Elizabeth McGehee* Louly F. Hay* ‡ Madeline and James Burgess* Phillip L. Pace ‡ Anthony Compton* Lynn Poisson* Janet and Stacy Hutcheson* ‡ Tracie and Lee Davis* Linda Pruett* ‡ Robert R. Fowler III Ann Ezell* Janette and Jon Scharf ‡ Louly and Steve Kapp* ‡ Tara and Michael Geoffroy* Seth Tuttle* Patricia and Robert H. Stansfield* ‡ D.L. Knox ‡† Lindsey VonBroembsen* ‡ Kay and Frank Turner* Samantha Lunsford* Charles Ware, Jr. THANK YOU TO THE Eugenia Murphy* Monteil Weeks* $1,000-$1,999 ‡ COUNTLESS DONORS Jennifer and Russel Towns* Reginald Wilcox* WHO CONTRIBUTED Helen and Charles Attaway* ‡ Sandra and Ron Manson* Up to $99 ‡ ‡ FOOD, BABY ITEMS, Felicia and Rick Britt* Bill Zancocchio* Natalie and Mike Adams ‡ ‡ SCHOOL SUPPLIES, Lauren and Ryan Butler $100-$249 April Allen* Laura and Mike Chism* Greer Allen* AND OTHER ITEMS Pamela and Glover Anderson ‡ Sheri and Duane Ford ‡ Jeff (Batman) Bost* TO OUR CRISIS Susan Atkins ‡ Susan Bryant* ‡ Dana and Stan Hall* Mandi Benson ‡ Judy Carl* RESPONSE INIATIVES. Lisa and Greg Herring* Kevin Blazina ‡ Karen Cherry* Glenda and Robert Hobbs* Gwen Blount* Jasmyne Davis* ‡ Dr. Sherry Hodges* Wayne Bouchillon ‡ Sarah and Patrick Dobbs* Gladys Bowie ‡ Brooke Dunn* Buncie and Jay Lanners* ‡ ‡ Cara Brown ‡ Cynthia and Vince Eagan Priscilla Espinosa* Jennifer and Trey Long* Verba and Ricky Brown ‡ Antione Ford* $25 helps a child... Sharron and Treavon Northern ‡ Nancy and Gary Butler* Kyana Giddens* attend a day of Virtual Molly McGehee and Daniel Parson* Meradith Capps* Bonnie Gunter* ‡ Learning Support Camp. Helen and Richard Schneider* Mary Bess Davis Shauna Hill* ‡ Darcel and Bob Tabb* Linda Day Juenesse Holman* Michael Dittman ‡ $50 helps a child… Judith and Ed Weaver ‡ Leah Jackson* Mara and John Ehret* Reginald Jackson* learn to swim. Dr. Steve Whatley* Susan Fielder ‡ Claude T. Jones* Donald Woodruff* Sylvia Gilmore* Kris Jones* Layla and Marty Zon* Sharon Gorman* Kanabda Jurjgan* $100 helps a child… Connie Green* Julie Kinney* play a season of soccer. $500-$999 Dr. Judy Greer* Andrea Lane* Delethe Levy-Stachan* ‡ Buster Gregory* Betsy and Steve Baker* Sarah Martin* Donny Hartman* $250 helps a senior… Melinda and Ron Benner* Ashley McGaha ‡ Carol Holmes ‡ Carrie Muldoon* attend six months of Chere Benson-Hall* ‡ Linda and Mike Holtgrewe Elisha Poynter* stretch classes. Lisa and Baxter Bouchillon* ‡ Debbie and John Jaun Alondra Puga* Susan and Charles Eddins* Audrey Johnson* Diane Sanders* Stephanie and Billy Fortson ‡ Amy and Thomas Kephart* Quinton E. Sanders* $500 helps two children Lisa and Dalton Knox* ‡ Angela King ‡ Veronica Sanders* attend three weeks of Jan Lauten* Abigail Scharf* Donna McDaniel* ‡ Summer Day Camp. Keri and Ryan Lewis* Hannah Scharf* Bill McKoy* Roger Lindsay ‡ Kathy and Jerry Silvio* Jane Parker* ‡ Tim Kirkland* Elizabeth Simpson* $1000 helps a child… Florence and James Peacock ‡ Cleave Malcolm* Katie Smith* Sara and Nick Synan ‡ attend the Afterschool ‡ Diane Marston* Erin and CW Pitts* Johna Townley* program for a semester. Angie H. Martin* Ashley and Trey Sanders* ‡ Linda Trotter* Melissa and Jason McCarthy ‡ Forester Sanders* Amanda Urbaniak ‡ Jake McDonald* Felicia and Bryant Sharpe* Josh Urbaniak* Elizabeth McGehee ‡† Dave Wesoloski* Sheree F. Slaughter* Jennifer and Joey McNew* Susan and Mike Wofford ‡ Tami and Mark Thomas* Stacy and Mike McQuaide‡ Tanieka Wyatt* SENIOR MANAGEMENT TEAM: Louly Hay-Kapp, Executive Director Kacie Brown, Membership Director Sharon Gorman, Financial Development Coordinator Erin Pitts, Youth Development and Aquatics Director Janette Scharf, Sports & Wellness Director Reggie Wilcox, Wellness Coach and Fitness Trainer

VOLUNTEER BOARD OF MANAGEMENT: Dan Bauer, Arbor Equity Chere Benson-Hall, Self-employed Sidney Benton, Benton’s Welding Supply Baxter Bouchillon, State Farm Josey Crider, South of Dearing Claudia Engelbracht, Omni Machine Works* Greg Herring, Darnel Quick Recovery Stacy Hutcheson, Wagner Staffing Thomas Kephart, United Bank Dalton Knox, Self-Employed Ryan Lewis, Sunbelt Builders Cynthia McCoy, Truist Bank Donna McDaniel, Retired Molly McGehee, Oxford College Trey Sanders, City of Covington Felicia Sharpe, Takeda Bob Stansfield, Greer, Stansfield & Turner, LLC Tami Thomas, Magistrate Court Judge, Newton County** Layla Zon, Superior Court Judge, Alcovy Circuit *Board Chair **Vice Chair

OUR MISSION: Your YMCA, reflecting its Judeo-Christian heritage, is an association of volunteers, members, and staff, open to and serving all , with programs and services which build spirit, mind and body . Financial assistance is available based on need. The YMCA actively seeks to identify and involve those in need. COVINGTON FAMILY YMCA OUR VISION: 2140 Newton Drive Be the organization that brings people together Covington, GA 30014 to champion communities where everyone belongs. 770-787-3908 cvy.ymcaatlanta.org OUR C ORE BELIEFS: #covingtonymca We believe that all people, especially children, #connectingthewholecommunity deserve an equal chance to reach their full potential and should prepare themselves to connect to and serve community.