Alfred Pinciak, president of the Retired Educators Association of Massachusetts – Hampden West Chapter, Stan Kozilowski, treasurer, and Janice Phillips, membership chair, present a $500 check to Andrea Allard of the Y for the PWY Scholarship Fund. (Photo submitted)
WESTFIELD – The YMCA of Greater Westfield held its Partners With Youth Annual Support Campaign Kick Off breakfast on March 21 at Shaker Farms Country Club in Westfield. The Annual Support Campaign is held each year to ensure that the Y can continue to provide residents of the Greater Westfield area with life-enhancing services.
Every day, the YMCA of Greater Westfield serves as a gathering place for the community. Kids pour in after school to play and do homework. Older adults connect with one another through exercise classes and group activities. Families learn how to eat healthy and grow together.
As a leading nonprofit for strengthening community, financial gifts to the Y will help advance programming and services that support youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. More importantly, gifts to the YMCA of Greater Westfield stay in the community, having a direct impact on residents in the Greater Westfield area.
“Through our Partners With Youth Annual support campaign, we want to educate people that we are more than a place to go to exercise or swim, but an organization that does vital work thanks to the support of the community,” said Andrea Allard, CEO of the Greater Westfield YMCA, improving the quality of life in our neighborhoods through a variety of ways that benefit all of us who live and work in the Greater Westfield area.”
