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Big Brothers Big Sisters partners with Family YMCA to Provide more Youth Opportunities
ZANESVILLE, Ohio- The Straker Foundation awarded Big Brothers Big Sisters of Zanesville a grant of $10,017.00 to go towards its partnership with the Muskingum County Family YMCA.
Big Brothers Big Sisters is using the money for youth development for the ‘littles,’ in which they have the opportunity to enroll in programs at the Family YMCA.
“The children we serve, we serve a lot of at-risk youth, so these families are in need anyway, so to be able to give them that funding and opportunity to be here and to gain some life skills, like swimming, or participate in a spring or summer sport. I think that’s absolutely critical for our future generation,” BBBSZ Executive Director Katie Mainini said.
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YMCA and BBBS Partner
ZANESVILLE, Ohio-The YMCA and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Zanesville have teamed up for National Mentorship Month.
The partnership was a result of an existing relationship between executive directors Jeremy Byers and Katie Mainini. Byers tells us about what the partnership offers.
“She came up and talked and we talked about having some programs that’s gonna involve bigs and littles. Our association branches, Licking and Western, also do this program where a big and a little can both get a membership for the Y. It’s free for them, there’s no charge. That’s one of the things we’re looking to do.”, Byers said of the partnership.