Annual Campaign (Formerly Strong Kids)  & GBY Swim-A-Long

Every year the Green Bay Y has a Annual Campaign to raise monies to support Kids, families and the community.  With these monies raised the Green Bay Y is able to help many children and families to have membership in the YMCA and also to help with program fees.  These monies are used also to help subsidize many community based programs such as Swim Smart & Girls Night Out.  The Green Bay Y annually gives away a million dollars plus to help the kids, families and community based programs.

For 2014 the Green Bay Y has a goal to raise almost $750,000.   Monies are raised in a number of ways at the Green Bay Y.  We have many corporate donors that help every year with the Annual Campaign.  The YMCA Staff also donates every year to the Annual Campaign.  The DT Y Staff has already begun their 2014 “Family” campaign and already raised over $11,000.  In February we have our Community Campaign which involves each of the Green Bay Y’s recruiting 100’s of volunteers to either be involved with their centers calling night or as Face To Face campaigners inside the Y’s or outside the Y’s at their places of business. 

The Community Campaign begins in February.  The Downtown Y has scheduled their calling night on Wednesday, February 5, 2014.  Our calling night begins at 5:30pm and runs until around 8:00pm.  The calling night involves a presentation by the DT Y staff that is always very entertaining.  We also will take some time to train and educate our volunteer callers on the Annual Campaign and making their calls.  And the remainder of the evening is spent making phone calls.  There will also be food served and some great prize drawings for our volunteers. 

Most volunteers receive about 10 pledge cards that they will need to call to ask for a donation to the annual campaign.  Hopefully most of these calls are completed that evening but the volunteers have another 4 weeks to work their remaining pledge cards.  Most volunteers are also encouraged to find some new donors to the Annual Campaign. 

The Swim Team is hoping to have about 10 volunteers to help make phone calls.  You may sign-up to volunteer on the Calling Night webpage.

In addition, the Swim Team has become a huge part of the DT Y campaign by putting on a yearly Swim-A-Long.  This year’s Swim-A-Long will be held at the DT Y pool on Wednesday, February 12, 2014.  The Gold swimmers will do their lengths from 3:45-5:40pm, and the Bronze and Silver will do their lengths from 6:30-8:00pm. 

The Swim-A-Long is very simple.  All GBY swimmers will receive a pledge envelope in January.  GBY swimmers may ask family, friends, neighbors & anyone for donation based on the lengths they swim.  GBY swimmers are given either  25, 50, 100 or 200 lengths as their goal of lengths to swim.  Donors may either give you a pledge per length swam or just make donation to the Swim-A-Long.  All GBY swimmers will complete the lengths assigned to them.  Your donor will either pay by check or cash and that will be put into your envelopes.  Envelopes will be turned in at the Swim-A-Long on Wednesday, February 12.  Those swimmers unable to make the actual Swim-A-Long can turn their envelope into Coach Dave anytime around February 12.  All GBY Swimmers will receive a custom GBY Swim Cap for their participation in the Swim-A-Long.  The top 6 Fundraisers will receive a Speedo Backpack.  These top 6 will be announced one week after the Swim-A-Long.

We will not call families on the calling night because families can make their donation through their child’s Swim-A-Long. 

The GBY Swim Team last year raised almost $10,000 on their Swim-A-Long.  We are hoping to raise even more this year.

If anyone has any questions regarding the Annual Campaign or the Swim-A-Long please contact Coach Dave.

Thank you to all of our swimmers and families for their support of the Green Bay Y and the Annual Campaign.

For any parents or swimmers who would like to volunteer to be on our Swim Team Calling Team please sign-up on the website by December 31.