Activate America

About YMCA Activate America

YMCA Activate America™ is a national initiative that is rallying YMCAs across the country to further enhance their service and support to kids, adults and families who want to live a healthy lifestyle, but struggle to do so. As a part of YMCA Activate America, YMCAs are also deepening their commitment to community wide efforts to promote healthy living and intensifying their collaboration with other community partners to magnify community benefits.

As a valuable community resource, the Philadelphia YMCA & Vicinity is proud to join in this national effort to help those in our community live healthier lives. YMCAs are for people of all faiths, races, ages, incomes and abilities.

YMCA Activate America was created because—as the nation's oldest and largest community based organization with over 2,600 YMCAs, 20.2 million members and a mission dedicated to health and wellness for more than 150 years—the YMCA is uniquely qualified and positioned to impact our country's growing obesity, chronic disease, and health care crisis.

To maximize its impact, the YMCA of the USA has enlisted national partners to provide expert advice on the development of YMCA Activate America. These partners include the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Steps to a HealthierUS initiative, Harvard School of Public Health and Stanford University School of Medicine. In addition, organizations such as Disney Channel, Kellogg Company, JCPenney Afterschool Fund, Kimberly-Clark Corporation and PepsiCo have been instrumental in supporting this initiative.