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2020 ANNUAL REPORT universityymca.org THE Y COMMUNITY STARTS HERE

Each year when I sit down to write this letter, I spend some time looking back at the year and reflecting on the impact of our programs, the challenges we faced and what lies ahead.

This year is a little different for a couple of reasons.

First, this is my last time writing a letter for the Annual Report since I’m retiring at the end of 2020. So like many of the seniors who are graduating and several who are featured in this report, I find myself excited about the changes that lie ahead but also appreciative of the people who embraced me as part of the University Y community. It’s been an honor to work with deeply committed volunteers, a devoted and hard-working staff and students who promise to be tomorrow’s leaders.

This year is also different because of what we are going TABLE OF CONTENTS through as a nation – an out of control pandemic that lays bare our societal inequities, mass protests in the Message from the Executive streets against the brutality of racism and the very real Director...... 3 threats to our democracy as it strains under the gas lighting and undermining of ethical and institutional Nurturing Student Leadership norms. Today...... 4-9 But over the past 147 years, the University Y has embraced the challenges of the day - harnessing the The Fall 2019 Friday Forum Creating a More Welcoming Community ...... 10 -11 excitement and energy that our students exude and series, Womxn Rise Up, providing a resilient community that nurtures the celebrated national and local Cultivating Hope ...... 12-13 leadership necessary to bring about the change that we womxn activists who work with want to see. programs and initiatives that Responding to Crisis ...... 14-15 Like the students featured on the following pages, I address topics ranging from share their appreciation for my time at the University Y A Legacy of Impact ...... 16-17 affordable housing to sexual and I’m grateful for the people who I have had a chance to work with that provided me with inspiration and hope violence to voter engagement. Recognizing Our Supporters about the future. The series drew over 750 ...... 18-19 attendees across 10 lectures. I hope you will enjoy reading about some of the Our Impact by the Numbers experiences our students have had while here on ...... 20 campus. And I want to thank you for your support and Pictured: Dr. Sheri Williams, for being part of the University Y community. It means founder of Melt Magazine, a lot to our students and has meant a lot to me. discusses recreating media for Sincerely, and by black girls.

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ANDY SIMA | STUDENTS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS The Y brings opportunities Andy Sima has always felt connected to the environment. “I’ve for support, mentorship and always kind of been an outdoorsy person so it seemed kind of natural that I would be drawn to environmental activism in empowerment to young adults. In that I want to see all of these beautiful places and amazing this section, you will find the stories natural resources preserved,” he said.

of students and their passion for Over the past three years as Fundraising Chair and Treasurer strengthening community. of SECS, Andy worked to provide stability and support to the organization. “I think [fundraisers] are a really great way to make new friends, strengthen existing relationships and do something productive for environmental activism and SECS as a whole.”

JASMINE CUASAY | PHILIPPINE STUDENT ASSOCIATION “[SECS] has given me an In his last year on campus, Andy hopes to see progress made opportunity to experiment towards fossil fuel divestment and for more high impact The first month at U of I, Jasmine Cuasay found events like the September Climate Strike March. “That was herself feeling homesick. “I just wanted friends and with my leadership abilities definitely the highlight of last semester,” he said. “We had a place to call home even though I didn’t know what in a safe space. I can such a huge turnout. The whole thing felt powerful. It felt home was anymore,” she described. That changed make mistakes and still be like we were doing something really productive, something after she attended Philippine Student Association’s concrete, and it was really exciting to be a part of that.” annual Freshman Dinner. That night she met many accepted.” people who would become her best friends and CHRISTINE SAVAIANO | VIS-A-VIS mentors. - Andy Sima, Treasurer of A course volunteer requirement led Christine Savaiano to VIS- Students for Environmental A-VIS where she was placed as an ESL tutor at Centennial As Jasmine got more involved in PSA, she decided to Concerns High School. She recalled helping a first-generation student run for a Board position as Awareness Chair. “I felt work on a college essay. As he described his challenges, like there were an infinite number of events to have she didn’t know how to react. “Looking back, I would have that could teach people about all facets of [Filipino- handled the situation differently. [Students] don’t need your American] culture, and that is what drew me to be pity; they just need to know that you support them,” she said. Awareness Chair,” Jasmine explained. When VIS-A-VIS sent out an email looking for volunteer This past year, Jasmine stretched herself further coordinators, Christine jumped at the opportunity and the as PSA Treasurer. “I definitely underestimated next year took on the role of President. This year, VIS-A-VIS the responsibilities of the Treasurer,” she said. “I placed over 50 tutors and classroom aides in 16 schools in thought the money comes in and the money goes Champaign-Urbana. Working as a coordinator helped her see out. I found I had to work with a lot of people and the full impact of the program. “When I contact all the school a lot of systems. As Treasurer, you have to think “Everytime I would need site coordinators and reach out to them and help out, all their about the organization as a whole.” emails back are just like, you don’t understand how helpful help or come in [to the Y], VIS-A-VIS is to our schools. We really need the coordinators, While it hasn’t always been easy, Jasmine credits there were always smiling and we really need the tutors,” she recalled. her involvement in PSA for helping her develop a faces; there were always sense of self-worth. “I gave a lot of myself into this people willing to help.” Her time as a tutor impacted her as well. Christine is preparing organization and that came back to me tenfold. to teach Spanish and ESL at Lake Park High School this fall. “I I definitely grew,” she reflected. “My mentality actually decided to get my ESL minor because of [VIS-A-VIS]. changed from learning the position and figuring out - Christine Savaiano, President I loved it,” she explained. what type of officer I wanted to be, to owning it.” of VIS-A-VIS Tutoring

4 5 DANY RODRIGUEZ | LA COLECTIVA Growing up in Skokie, IL, Dany Rodriguez knew she wanted to study education. “I’ve THE FRED S. BAILEY been teaching ever since I was little,” she SCHOLARSHIP recalled. “My mom would babysit, and I AT A GLANCE would make lessons for the kids. When I was fifteen I started working for the park $193,700 in district . . . I felt like I was giving such scholarships a vital skill to the kids that they would given during definitely be able to use in their future.” the 2019-20 academic year As the child of two immigrant parents, Dany also felt called to engage in immigrant advocacy. La Colectiva brought those two passions together and gave Dany an opportunity to advocate for educational opportunities for all. “I think it is a great program. We do so much to JASMINE SINGLETON | AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL 73 recipients help immigrant students and immigrants in the UIUC area.” Growing up in a mixed race family, Jasmine Singleton was For Dany, one of the best parts of being in La Colectiva is the no stranger to injustice. “I was always aware because opportunity to collaborate. “Working with other organizations both I didn’t have a choice to be,” she recalled. “Just seeing 10 countries visited in and out of the Y who share the same values as we do is great, how the criminal justice system has treated half of my by travel and I love being able to shape the ideas of younger generations,” she family as opposed to the other half of my family, there recipients shared. Looking ahead, Dany is excited to connect more with the Y’s was always an awareness. But it wasn’t until college that I New American Welcome Center, raise more funds for La Colectiva’s realized I can do something about this that is much bigger scholarship and increase membership in the coming year. than voting.” 70% of recipients identify as GWYNETH DIXON | ALTERNATIVE SEASONAL BREAKS (ASB) After earning an Associate Degree at Black Hawk College, % Black, Hispanic, Jasmine came to U of I to continue her education. She LatinX, Asian, or As a freshman, Gwyneth Dixon travelled to Kissimmee, Florida with credits her involvement with the Y student program Multi-racial ASB to volunteer with Give Kids the World. “You were with people Amnesty International as helping her to realize the who really want to give back and volunteer and they have those same power she had to create change. “The people in the interests and the village itself is like a Disney World, so upbeat and $22,500 in happy! So, combined it was a really impactful experience, and I wanted Y, specifically Amnesty, but everyone there is just so Emergency supportive and I knew that if I wanted to better myself or Aid given to to make sure other people got a similar experience,” she recalled. get more engaged in any aspect, there was someone there Bailey Scholars that I could talk to help me with whatever I was trying to as COVID-19 The next year, Gwyneth joined the ASB board. Despite Gwyneth’s do on campus or beyond,” she said. pandemic relief enthusiasm, it hasn’t always been easy. In her first year, she saw trips she planned cancelled because there were not enough drivers, and this She is especially proud of the group’s work to pass Illinois spring she was forced to cancel the organization’s first international SB337 to reduce gun trafficking. “Being able to see trip in over a decade due to the COVID-19 pandemic. the work that all of our members put in was just really amazing. I had a really great sense of community when Still, Gwyneth believes ASB provides a vital service, and it can we were doing that project. Carrying it through from rebound from the set-backs. “I am really excited and hopeful for the coming up with an idea to collecting letters and signatures organization,” she said. “I know that this upcoming year is going to and then being able to take those and lobby in Springfield be very hard . . .[but] I really think once we get going it can be a really was powerful,” she reflected. strong presence on campus again.”

This fall, Jasmine will begin a graduate program to study Gwyneth values her ASB experiences, good and bad. “I had so many Diversity and Equity in Education so she can help first- challenges and complaints and successes that I was really able to get a generation students like herself. “Education, in every and holistic view of what it is like to be in all of these different positions of any form, is a crucial component of truly empowering the leadership process and then reflect on everything that happened work,” she said. throughout the four years, and I think I’ve grown a lot.” 6 NURTURING LEADERSHIP TODAY 2020 ANNUAL REPORT 7 MARIUM KUREISHY | INTERFAITH PLANNING COMMITTEE “I think interfaith work helps us see Marium Kureishy has always been interested in learning about one another as human beings without other people, how they live, and what they believe in. That desire led Marium to join the Y’s Interfaith Planning Committee. all of the veils of what other people say about who we are and who they “It is so helpful to have programming that is kind of like are.” an ice breaker,” she said. “I think people want to talk about these [interfaith] issues, especially on campus. . . . Very rarely is it welcome to talk about religion in an academic setting - Marium Kureishy, Interfaith Planning so I think for me personally, faith is a big part of who I am Committee and how I orient myself in life so it’s really nice to be able to talk about it with people and hear their perspectives.”

As a Muslim woman who grew up in Clinton, IL, Marium STUDENT IMPACT understands feeling misrepresented and misunderstood. JAKE LEWIS | ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS AT A GLANCE Interfaith programs have helped her to find people who are genuinely interested in forming connections and collaborating. “It As a freshman, Jake Lewis joined an Engineers 11 stud e nt gives me hope,” she said. “Interfaith work really gives me hope.” without Borders project working to build a school programs, in an Earthquake prone area in rural Nepal. After including the Her favorite event from the past year took place as part of a board member was unexpectedly unable to travel YMCA Student the Cultivating Hope series when Urbana’s Central Illinois that November, Jake was selected to join the travel Board Mosque and Islamic Center invited members of the Jewish team. “That was really cool to be able to do in my community to use their space for Shabbat services. “It was first three months. . . .I got really hooked,” he said. very moving. . . .That kind of connection in a place where historically there has sometimes been conflict or tension or Jake continued his involvement as an Executive 585 student stress is what is important, that we can see each other as Board intern before going on to serve as both volunteers human beings and offer that connection and that solidarity.” Treasurer and President. As President, Jake focused on creating team structures to increase OMAR KAZI | RED BISON accountability. “We’re accomplishing a lot more As an electrical engineering student, Omar hopes to develop even though we spent half the semester away 38,695 student long-term design solutions to make a broader impact toward from each other [due to COVID-19]. Our projects volunteer hours sustainability, but an internship at Fermilab in high school are a lot more reliable and accountable to the also sparked an interest in ecology, paleontology, and invasive communities they work with instead of having species. “Going into U of I, I was looking for something to do communication be a big issue. Everybody knows a with ecology right away,” Omar recalled. His search led him to lot more about what is going on.” Red Bison.

“It is all the As a future transportation engineer, Jake knows “All the people [in Red Bison], they love being outdoors. There is more important his experience in EWB will influence his work after a common shared passion for sustainability and ecology. So it is he graduates. “EWB really focuses on community really nice to share that community of people, who understand because it is so oriented engineering design. We’re not designing the challenges of sustainability and actually care about making a something because it is the most efficient money- difference at the local level to the ecosystem,” described Omar. difficult to do.” wise or the most efficient technically, we’re Since joining the group, Omar has served as both Treasurer and designing something that works for the community. a Student Board representative. - Jake Lewis, Engineers If it doesn’t work for the community, they aren’t without Borders on going to use it and that defeats the purpose,” Jake One of the things Omar is most excited about is a grant he community-oriented explained. “That sort of environmental analysis is helped write that provided the funds to expand Red Bison’s work engineering really important to [all] engineering projects.” in the South Arboretum Woods. “It seemed like a sign of Red Bison’s growth and establishment as a leader in ecology and sustainability on campus,” he explained. 5 8 NURTURING LEADERSHIP TODAY 2020 ANNUAL REPORT 9 COMMUNITY NAVIGATORS EXPAND ACCESS Language, cultural and economic barriers too often keep our Welcoming Week 2019 brought immigrant neighbors from thriving. In January, the New American Welcome Center established a cohort of volunteers embedded in local together thousands of residents immigrant communities to act as community navigators, carrying across Champaign County to services directly to those in need and building trust within those communities. The outreach team includes three outreach leaders and celebrate cultural diversity and seven community navigators, who represent and serve the Chinese, connection at 34 events. Congolese and Latinx communities in Champaign County.

In addition to providing training and information, community navigators support local immigrants as they interact with the immigration system, accompanying clients as they appear in immigration court, secure ALONDRA ESTRADA | WELCOMING WEEK police reports, and have fingerprints taken for immigration benefits. An online volunteer search led Alondra Estrada to AWARDS + HONORS sign up as a photographer for a Flag Day event presented to the University YMCA In an exceptional show of resilience amidst the pandemic, community hosted by the New American Welcome Center at navigators adapted to find meaningful ways to continue connecting Champaign City Hall. “It was very interesting,” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with community members. In just a few months, the team translated Alondra said. “I didn’t know there was any kind of Outstanding Achievement over 130 pages of documents into 7 languages and connected over organization that worked so closely with immigrants Award (January 2020 - 5,000 people to time-sensitive assistance via diverse platforms. in the community.” Champaign County) “It has affected our work, and was stressful at first,” said Denisse When the Welcome Center needed a videographer to Community Impact Award Gaitan, a UI senior and outreach leader for the Latinx community, document Welcoming Week, Alondra volunteered to (December 2019 - Junior “but it has been really important and helpful to continue to meet as a attend the events and interview participants. One League of Champaign- team and maintain contact. I think we have done a good job of moving event, Bingo Night, sticks out in her memory. “I Urbana). virtually and maintaining consistency.” interviewed this woman and her son and listened YMCA OFFERS LEGAL SERVICES to their story of how they ended up in Champaign Outstanding Community In 2019, the Y received recognition from the Department of Justice to and how much they appreciated these types of Organization (December provide immigration legal advice and limited legal representation on communities and people and events that make them 2019 - University of immigration matters. Our accredited staff, Gloria Yen and Zoë Foote, feel just a little bit more at home. I think that event Illinois International provide free consultations on immigration legal matters, prepare and where so many people are coming together to do Student and Scholar represent folks on applications for DACA, asylum, visas for victims of something to create belonging represents what Services) Welcoming Week really is.” crime, work authorization, legal permanent residence, citizenship, and other immigration benefits. In the past year, we have provided over Alondra hopes people watch the video and get 160 free immigration legal consultations and have represented 50 interested in being involved in Welcoming Week by individuals on their immigration cases. hosting an event or attending. For other students, she hopes it serves as a reminder that Champaign- One of our citizenship clients, C., just became the first ILSA client to Urbana is more than just a college town. It is a whole pass her citizenship interview and exam. She will become a citizen as community that is continuously being built and soon as her oath ceremony is scheduled, and told ILSA Director Zoë expanded on because of immigrants. “All you have Foote “Thank you, thank you so much for your advice, thank you for to do is listen and you just learn so much and get everything. I did my interview and I pass! You’re a good instructor!” a whole new perspective. Especially being a college student here, you go outside that bubble and learn To provide holistic legal services, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, something new.” the Y coordinated monthly free legal clinics to connect immigrant community members with legal advice from volunteer licensed attorneys on divorce and custody issues, orders of protection, DUIs, Watch Alondra’s Welcoming Week video online: universityymca.org/AR20 landlord/tenant problems, court summons, traffic tickets, and other general issues free of charge.

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FRIDAY FORUM SERIES EXPLORES PRAXIS AND CHANGE The Spring Friday Forum series, “Praxis and the Power of Public Learning,” kicked off on February 7 with U of I Professor Naomi Paik leading a CULTIVATING discussion on how to make teaching and scholarship work to serve the public. Dr. Paik’s talk highlighted the overall theme of the series which sought to explore the Freirean concept of praxis, a cycle of learning, reflecting, and acting in order to protect ourselves and our communities HOPE from oppressive systems. Additional talks in the series explored changing behaviors in response to We live in a time of climate change, faith as a path toward healing, the power of bio-inspired unprecedented political design, and the transformative potential of transnational solidarity polarization, growing movements. awareness of systemic racism and violence facing Black Americans, institutionalized xenophobia and the exacerbation of health disparities in a global pandemic. “ [U of I] is supposed to be in service of the Amidst these challenges community, right? Friday Forum, Art @ the Y, So this includes ART @ THE Y EXHIBITIONS CELEBRATE RESILIENCE and interfaith programming officially recognized The 2019-20 Art @ the Y season kicked off with the work of twelve sought to cultivate hope, members of women artists whose lives were detoured by invasive growth and our university celebrate resilience, and physical trauma. The exhibition, entitled Scars that Bind, explored how community like artists channel creativity to deal with adversity. The theme of resilience empower change. students but also repeated itself throughout the year as exhibitions challenged us to see communities that strength and hope emerge from suffering. extend beyond its official boundaries In the spring, Art @ the Y partnered with the Education Justice Project to like just regular show FREE AGAIN, a photo exhibition that highlighted the stories of 18 people, folks who individuals who served extensive prison sentences, emerging against all Cultivating Hope in Anxious Times, the inaugural are living either in odds as strong and caring men, willing to give of themselves to strengthen program of the C-U Campus Community Interfaith Champaign County their communities. Exploration, sought to build bridges across local faith or the state of communities, community groups, campus religious and Illinois.” Another partnership, this time with the Cunningham Township Supervisor, student life associations, and U of I faculty, staff, and led to Our Stories, Our Places, Our Resilient Selves, an exhibition of administrators. Over 800 participants attended the Dr. Naomi Paik, story mapping, photographs, video and artifacts that amplified the lived two-week program that culminated with a weekend Asian American experiences of our neighbors who have “been through it”-- homelessness, of events November 7 - 10, 2019. Guests included Dr. Studies and Gender trauma, and involvement in the criminal justice system. In addition to Eboo Patel, author, speaker, educator, and interfaith and Women’s visual art, each exhibition opening gave voice to those whose lived leader, Ted & Company TheatreWorks, and a number Studies at Friday experience inspired the works in the room as powerful speakers shared of religious scholars, faith, and community leaders. Forum on 2-7-20 Photo credit: Marium Kureishy their experiences in their own words.

12 13 STUDENTS ADAPT TO ORGANIZING ONLINE Ana Mendoza never imagined her last semester on campus would end with in-person classes cancelled in the wake of a global pandemic. “Emotional rollercoaster is the best way to describe it,” she said. “It was really odd. Of RESPONDING course, I was sad, but I also saw it as an opportunity to say ok, well time to go with Plan B, let’s see what else we can do.”

After about a week of adjustment, the Green Observer started meeting TO CRISIS weekly through Zoom and setting goals for the new environment. “We went through the list of everything we wanted to accomplish, and there were some things we obviously just couldn’t do, but there was definitely a IMMIGRANT RELIEF FUND FILLS GAPS ANA MENDOZA way to keep up with blog articles, fundraisers, outreach and stuff like that,” GREEN OBSERVER Ana explained. The group was forced to cancel its plans to present a bee IN AID workshop at local elementary schools during Earth Week, but instead, the team organized a GoFundMe campaign to support the efforts of My Block, The New American Welcome Center’s Immigrant My Hood, My City to deliver food necessities to elderly Black Chicagoans. Relief Fund was established in April 2019 with PROGRAM Donors to the campaign were entered into a raffle to win Green Observer a donation from The Chapel of Saint John the merchandise and reusable goodies. Divine to provide emergency financial assistance SPOTLIGHT BAILEY SCHOLARSHIP to immigrants in Champaign County regardless This summer, the Green Observer is slowing down but not stopping. The of status. Prior to the pandemic, the fund had magazine went fully online in 2019 and is now working to maintain an primarily been used to subsidize legal fees or As businesses closed in the fight to active blog year round with posts and artwork. Despite the setbacks, Ana cover small emergency needs. Then, COVID-19 feels like she gained a lot from the experience. “I learned how to literally changed everything. control the spread of COVID-19, many roll with it, just as new information came up and things changed and try to students found make the best of the situation and try to stay as calm as possible but also In just three months, the New American allow myself to feel the feelings I am feeling in a healthy way,” she said. Welcome Center distributed over $103,000 themselves without in emergency cash assistance to economically jobs and unable to As a global vulnerable families – 88% of recipients are pay for basic needs like rent and food. ONLINE PROGRAMS ENCOURAGE CARE AND COPING pandemic forced ineligible for federal economic stimulus and As COVID-19 precautions forced the Y to close its doors, staff worked unemployment insurance. The fund has already With over two-thirds businesses, of Bailey Scholars to develop programs and services to support the social-emotional helped 669 people in 167 households put food needs of our community in addition to physical needs. including the Y, to on the table, pay rent and utility bills, and buy reporting they must close their doors work to pay for clothes for their growing children. Capitalizing on social media platforms, we kept our community engaged and the University their education, the Bailey Committee through activities like “25 Ways to Care for Yourself, Others and of Illinois In addition, NAWC staff and interns have Immigrants during COVID-19: The Bingo Game,” a digital egg hunt to ensured access to nearly $50,000 in relief established announced it would emergency aid for drive website traffic and by posting videos of some of our favorite past to 87 households during the pandemic by Friday Forums each week to replace cancelled lectures. end all in-person conducting screenings, completing applications, students impacted classes for the and providing interpretation and translation economically using donations made to Other programs encouraging dialogue and discussion were adapted spring semester, services. These efforts have helped families to to online platforms, including the April Interfaith Dialogue, “Coping access $7,500 in food assistance made possible Bailey during the the University 2019 Major Funds and Caring During the Coronavirus.” Over 30 individuals of different YMCA raced to by the Champaign County COVID-19 Relief faith traditions met over Zoom to discuss ways of making sense of and Fund, $23,000 in cash assistance thanks to the Campaign. To date, meet the emerging $22,500 has been taking care of our communities during the pandemic. Programs like a COVID-19 Immigrant Family Support Project virtual Young Alumni Happy Hour, the Student Board’s Happiness Hour, needs of students and Access to Justice’s Emergency Community awarded to 43 Bailey Scholars to provide and even the annual Board of Trustees meeting encouraged interaction and community Navigator Program, and $5,000 in health and and mutual support during a time of social distancing. The Y’s New housing relief through Community Services short-term financial members. assistance. American Welcome Center continues to offer weekly online Tai Chi at the Champaign County Regional Planning classes to encourage physical movement and mental relaxation. Commission. 14 RESPONDING TO CRISIS 2020 ANNUAL REPORT 15 THE Y CELEBRATING MIKE DOYLE’S CAREER

THE PROMISE OF EXCHANGE When a group of U of I medical students approached the University Y about supporting an emerging global partnership in 2014, Mike Doyle recommended locations with an active YMCA. A LEGACY As students were drawn to the University’s historic relationship with Njala University in Sierra Leone, the University YMCA found a parallel in the YMCAs of Sierra Leone. With programs focused on encouraging youth engagement in environmental OF IMPACT protection, criminal justice reform, and civic engagement, the collaboration potential was boundless.

After more than eleven Since 2014, Christian Kamara, CEO of the SL Ys has visited years at the helm of the Champaign three times and staff and volunteers from the campus University YMCA, Mike “Mike has been a wonderful YMCA have visited Sierra Leone seven times. The partnership resulted in $20,000 for Ebola relief, the construction of a well Doyle announced that he will leader who is deeply committed to the mission in Kenema, mental health services and an emerging workforce retire as Executive Director of the University Y and development program and furniture business. at the end of 2020. has been passionate about building upon the history of This January, the Y renewed its commitment to the partnership As the Y prepares to say the organization as we moved hiring Cynthia Markstahler as Global Engagement Programs Coordinator. After visiting the Sierra Leone YMCAs this winter, goodbye to its leader for into new program areas. He has provided the leadership Cynthia has developed a partnership MOU and is exploring new over a decade, we celebrate to guide the organization programs with an emphasis on mutual exchange and learning. the impact Mike Doyle has through many changes.” made and the legacy of his A CAMPUS-COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP career. - Cassie Carroll, Chair The University YMCA’s Dump and Run program has collected Board of Governors gently used items from students during spring move out for 2018 - 2020 nearly two decades. After University Housing ended its own salvage drive in 2012, the Y stepped in and expanded 2009 2014 2017 collections to the dorms. Yet as the program’s visibility and A comprehensive A partnership YMCA of the USA popularity increased, staff and volunteers were stretched thin program review with the YMCAs names the University by the effort. leads to creation of Sierra Leone Y as one of six New of Art @ the Y is established. American Welcome In April 2019 Mike Doyle began outreach to University of Illinois and expansion Centers in recognition leadership to ask for the institution’s support of the program. of interfaith Read more in of ongoing leadership in In response, during May 2019 collections both U of I Facilities programming the sidebar > immigrant communities and Services (F&S) and University Housing supplied trucks and labor to help collect items from students. Building on that 2009 2009 2015 2019 momentum, Mike initiated regular meetings with representatives Mike Doyle The Bailey Program Review The Board of Governors The “Transforming from the Office of the Chancellor, the Vice Chancellor for Public is selected Committee recommends votes to update its Lives, Connecting Engagement, University Housing, and F&S to identify ways to to serve as changes that double the socially responsible Communities” strengthen the partnership. In February 2020, F&S announced Executive amount available for investment (SRI) policy campaign raises it would commit significant staff and resources to taking over Director of scholarships and leads to and move investments $1.5 million for the coordination of move-out collections in University Housing. the University the creation of a graduate into purely SRI funds the Y While COVID-19 precautions led to the cancellation of Dump & YMCA. fellowship Run for 2020, we look forward to a renewed and strengthened CAREER HIGHLIGHTS partnership with U of I in 2021. 16 17 THE Y RECOGNIZING OUR SUPPORTERS

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Haynes, Secretary Matthew Macomber Alice Arnold Griselda Escobedo Karen Li≠ Robert Schoeplein Community Foundation of Mary E. Beastall 1873 Circle Members Philip Martin* Keenan Barber Kevin Estrella≠ Caryn Lichtenberg≠ Elizabeth & Glenn Scholebo East Central Illinois Willard L. Broom Annual Fund & Special Gifts Kathy Maniates & Paul Suhail Barot≠ Charles & Ruth Evans Hans Lindahl Kathleen Shannon & Cunningham Township/City Jay Corwin of $500 and above Selvin Bethany & Kevin Bayci Kent Fairfield Amy Liu Matthew Frank of Urbana - Consolidated Gloria Gleave Annie Abbott Walter McMahon* Richard Beal Bridget Fanelli Kenny Long & Ian Berg≠ Cary Shepherd≠ Social Services Funding Darrell L. Hartweg Ellen & Scott Althaus Cristina Medrano-Johnson & Susan & Wayne Bekiares Walter & Eleanor Feinberg Anna Look Frank & Carol Shupp IL Count Me In 2020 Scott N. 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Policy New American 13.8% Welcome Center 12.6% 164 150

Programs (Other) 12.8% 152

Arts & 53 Civic Dialogue 4.5% PROGRAMS 667 2019-20 Student Engagement & Leadership Development Student Engagement & 56.2% Leadership Development Alternative Seasonal Breaks Amnesty International PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS: 14,497 Bailey Scholarship Green Observer Engineers without Borders New American La Colectiva Welcome Center Interfaith in Action Programs (Other) 34.9 % Organizing Change Retreat 21.2% 3071 Prison Justice Project 5056 Philippine Student Association Red Bison Students for Environmental Concerns Student Leadership Workshops VIS-A-VIS 5233 New American Welcome Center Arts & 1137 Champaign County Welcoming Plan Civic Dialogue Count Me in 2020 36.1% La Linea Helpline Student Engagement & Immigration Legal Services Leadership Development Immigrant Rights & Advocacy 7.8 % International Dinner Oasis Resource Center Pathways to Citizenship EXPENSES Fundraising Welcoming Collaborative/ 11.3% Welcoming Week $137,067 Arts & Civic Dialogue Management Art @ the Y & General 14.3% Coffee Group Program $173,455 Cultivating Hope in Anxious Times Operations Friday Forum 74.4% Interfaith Dialogues Interfaith Conference Other Lectures & Events $901,288

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