Annual Report 2012
Annual Report 2013
World Alliance of YMCA’s Annual Report 2013 Text: Johan Vilhelm Eltvik, Romulo Dantas, Samuel Diaz Fernandez and Selma Zaidi Collaboration: Carlos Sanvee, Mary-Anne Roche, Tom Valentine, Maurício Vandorsee, Juan Simoes Iglesias and Kohei Yamada Revision: Carrie Diaz-Littauer Photos: Claude-Alain Danthe, World YMCA Archives, YMCA of the USA, YMCA Canada, Asia and Pacific Alliance of YMCAs, YMCA Europe and Latin America and Caribbean Alliance of YMCAs Published by: World YMCA 12 Clos Belmont - 1208 Geneva - Switzerland Tel: +41 22 8495100 office@ymca.int www.ymca.int @worldymca World Alliance of YMCAs, Geneva, March 2014 Printed by Mountain Media, USA - Design by Messaggio
Contents
Letter from the President and Secretary General.................... pg 4 We are the YMCA!.............................................................. pg 6 Youth Empowerment............................................................pg 12 Movement Strengthening.....................................................pg 20 Resource Mobilisation...........................................................pg 23 Image & Impact and Research..............................................pg 25 Governance........................................................................pg 27 Financial Overview...............................................................pg 30 Our Supporters...................................................................pg 36 Contact us..........................................................................pg 40
Letter from the President and Secretary General
The Global YMCA movement has been working on the strategic plan “NEW WAY” for three years now. It is an exciting journey! We are unifying around youth empowerment — 58 million YMCA people in 11,200 local YMCAs acting as one to improve the lives of young people.
1st. STATION GENEVA We entered the first station in summer 2011, after interviewing YMCA leaders about the core issues of the YMCA. Their answer: “To give youth the platform and tools they need (whatever that may be, depending on the young person’s starting point) to feel needed, trusted, and able to believe in possibilities, to further trust themselves to lead and believe they can make a difference, thereby becoming changemakers in the world.” This definition led to the creation of our youth empowerment change model:
SPACE | TRANSFORMATION | IMPACT 2nd. STATION NAIROBI We took these messages to the next station on the journey – Nairobi, Kenya – where more than 80 YMCA leaders from around the globe met with the Executive Committee of the World Alliance in March 2011. Unanimously, these stakeholders agreed on the following Nairobi Statement: The YMCA wants to achieve its full potential We We We We We
therefore must be a stronger movement therefore must attract greater resources therefore must have more visibility therefore must demonstrate greater impact therefore must have a shared focus; it should be Relevant to the world Grounded in our mission Worthy of our aspiration Connected to our current work
We therefore choose to collectively stand for youth empowerment
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3rd. STATION PRAGUE As we left Nairobi, we realised we needed to help others reflect upon and experience the strength of youth empowerment. So, with amazing support from all regions, and in collaboration with YMCA leaders of all ages, we have engaged 220 Change Agents from 63 countries. These are members of the next generation of YMCA leadership, and most are between 20 and 30 years old. They are participating in trainings, completing challenging learning assignments, becoming part of an important global network, and helping local and national movements decide ways to empower youth in their own contexts. Most of these all of these Change Agents met at the next station of this NEW WAY journey – in Prague in August 2013 – for a week of intensive learning and interaction. The NEW WAY journey has included the 2012 World Challenge, has involved 85 countries and 450,000 people in action – and now the train is thundering through 68 countries with the largest research initiative ever targeted towards youth ages 15-24: The One Million Voices Project!
4th. STATION ESTES PARK As we travel towards the World Council in Estes Park, Colorado, USA, June 29 – July 5, 2014, the NEW WAY will move into the new strategy plan for 2014-18: OUR WAY. OUR WAY will be about mobilising young people in big numbers to influence and impact a world that is not particularly youth-friendly, to empower young people. If you want to travel fast, travel alone. If you want to travel far, travel together. In the YMCA, we travel together.
Thank you to all of you: our co-travellers on the NEW WAY! Ken Colloton President
Johan Vilhelm Eltvik Secretary General
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We are the YMCA. We empower young people!
The YMCA is a worldwide Christian, ecumenical, voluntary movement for women and men with special emphasis on the genuine involvement of young people and it seeks to share the Christian ideal of building a human community of justice with love, peace and reconciliation for the fullness of life for all creation.
The World YMCA The World YMCA (WAY) is a federation of national YMCA movements working in 119 countries in all continents and in thousands of local communities. The World YMCA secretariat is based in Geneva, Switzerland. It works on the areas of: Youth Empowerment; Movement Strengthening (Organisational Development); Resource Mobilisation; Image and Impact; Governance and supports the work of national and local YMCAs.
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The YMCA Change Model for Youth Empowerment
SPACE Refers to the enabling environment or platform whereby young people are able to act, decide and fulfill their potential facilitated or supported by the YMCA.
Inclusive, Creative and Self Determined.
TRANSFORMATION Refers to the unique transformational learning and personal development the young person experiences by interacting with the YMCA in the shape of opportunities for development.
Values, Skills Knowledge and Practice.
IMPACT Refers to the personal life changing experience and the community impact generated by young people on the individual and collective level - inspired by a mindset of global citizenship and social responsibility.
Mindset Change, Leadership and Influencing Change.
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NEW WAY Strategic Plan (2011-2014)
Youth Empowerment The mass mobilisation of interconnected young people will create energy to make a difference, contribute to a cause, and foster change on a scale of significance in the world.
Movement Strengthening Strong National Movements are core to the health of the world YMCA movement worldwide. A unified focus on the three pillars of Mission Clarity, Social Relevance, and Institutional Viability provides the substance to the organisational identity and impact of the YMCA.
Resource Mobilisation A diverse, expanded resource base is essential to the long term sustainability of the world YMCA movement. Increased resources will mean a broader reach in population, an expanded impact in positive life-changing experiences, and a higher profile of the YMCA’s activity and image globally.
Image and Impact A common global message depicts the unified strength of the world YMCA movement. Communications strategies are in place to advance and positively impact the image, reach, and common understanding of the YMCA as a global partner of choice.
Governance Improved structure and functioning of the governance of the world movement. The YMCA will reflect and exemplify the ideals of good governance.
Global Citizenship: A crosscutting perspective We believe Global Citizenship to be an understanding of the local and global realities of an interconnected world and acting with the mindset of a global citizen. NEW WAY integrates the concept of Global Citizenship in all parts of the implementation of this strategy.
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YMCA in numbers
Presence in
119 countries
58 million people reached 11.220 locations +96.000 employees +725.000 volunteers
13.400.000 participants in Health Programmes
1.029.587 participants in Civic Engagement Programmes
357.000 participants in Employment Programmes
206.000 participants in Youth Leadership Development Programmes
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The World YMCA, in collaboration with 7 regional area level YMCA organisations (Africa, Asia and Pacific, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Canada, USA, and the Middle East), strengthens and expands the collective capacity, leadership, and learning of the YMCA organisation worldwide.
Albania Angola Argentina Armenia Aruba Australia Austria Bahamas Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Brazil Bulgaria Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cayman Islands Chile China Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Czech Republic Denmark Dominican Republic East Timor
Ecuador Egypt El Salvador England Estonia Ethiopia Fiji Finland France Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Guatemala Guyana
Haiti Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Ireland Israel (Nazareth – West Jerusalem) Italy Jamaica Japan Jordan Kenya Korea
YMCA Presence around the world
Kosovo Latvia Lebanon Liberia Lithuania Macau Macedonia Madagascar Malaysia Malta Mexico Moldova Mongolia Montenegro Myanmar
NagornoKarabakh Republic YMCA Artsakh Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Nigeria Norway Pakistan Palestine (East Jerusalem Gaza) Panama Paraguay Peru Philippines
Poland Portugal Romania Russia Scotland Senegal Serbia Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia South Africa Spain Sri-Lanka St. Vincent Suriname Sweden
Switzerland Taiwan Tanzania Thailand Togo Trinidad and Tobago Ukraine Uruguay USA Venezuela Vietnam Wales Zambia Zimbabwe
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Youth Empowerment
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Global Advocacy As we work to improve to improve the lives of young people all over the world, we sustain advocacy initiatives in several levels in order to influence public policies and to raise awareness on issues affecting young people. Global advocacy efforts reflect the experiences of YMCAs all over the globe in the areas of employment, health, civic engagement and the environment. Samuel Díaz Fernandez at the United Nations Commission for Social Development speaking on behalf of ICMYO (International Coordination Meeting of Youth Organisations) regarding the Secretary General’s Report on the UN World Programme of Action on Youth. Romulo Dantas during the United Nations General Assembly defending the need for more resources to be invested in addressing the needs of young people.
Advocacy training sessions, led by the World YMCA, for young leaders at United Nations centres in Nairobi, Paris and New York.
Ingrid Anderson follows-up the work of the United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth to support the advocacy work of the YMCA in the context of the Post-2015 «United Nations Development Agenda.
Members of the YMCA Resource Group on the Environment advocate for climate justice at UN Environmental Conference (COP17) in Poland.
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Employment The YMCA is working on employment issues in 88 countries, so we have a good understanding of how the employment crisis can affect the future of a young person. The consequences of youth unemployment are devastating in the long term; unemployment is a barrier to achieving autonomy and can often force young people into severe situations, including criminal behaviour. The International Labor Organisation estimates the need for 600 million jobs to be created in the next decade.
YMCA Colombia
Highlight - Colombia - Agroecological Farm
The day starts very early at “La Selva”, an agroecological farm near Medellin, Colombia. A total of 1,682 people – the majority of them young men and women – are receiving training in agroecology in order to improve their livelihoods through the improvement of their cultivation practices and production of clean food. The programme has been running since 2009. The infrastructure includes 5 livestock units (chickens for fattening, laying hens, Californian worms, goats and rabbits) and more than 30 varieties of vegetable crops, fruit trees, herbs and plants for animal feed. One of the goals is to share learning and practices of a selfsustaining space that could ensure food security by the variety of foods, adding the ability to exchange or sell the surplus produced. Embedded in the programme is an additional training for young participants in conflict resolution, gender equality and life planning.
YMCA of the USA
Highlight - USA - YMCA Training, Inc
Nationally recognised for their innovative business simulations, YMCA Training, Inc., a programme in the Boston area, provides access to employment that offers family-supporting wages and benefits to unemployed and under-employed young adults and adults. The programme, housed in a simulated office environment, involves training in computer and office support skills, promotes the standards of the professional workplace, and offers high expectations and support to develop confident candidates into valued employees.
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To achieve these results, the YMCA works hand-in-hand with employer partners throughout the entire process: from the curriculum design phase to job placements. Since 1984, YMCA Training, Inc. has helped meet the staffing needs of over 200 Boston-area employers by providing the skills and dedication of over 4,000 programme graduates who add high skills and diversity to the employers’ workforce. • Over 80% of graduates find full-time jobs • 90% of jobs include health insurance benefits • 90% of graduates are still working after one year Trainees use their new skills under “real work” pressure as they are immersed in a virtual office complete with hands-on projects, live customer service training, supervisory relationships, and simulated business challenges which strengthen their problem-solving skills and sharpen workflow understandings and team communication.
Health In many parts of the world, young people do not have access to health services. The situation is life-threatening because it impacts their quality of life in adulthood. From mental health to sexual diseases to drug addiction, young people lead in the statistics. For example, 2.6 million young people aged 10 to 24 die each year, mostly due to preventable causes according to the World Health Organisation.
Africa Alliance of YMCAs
Highlight - Africa - YMCA Act2Live Youth Health Initiative
Is there a limit beyond which youth advocacy has no opportunity to influence decision-making? This is an important question as the African YMCA Act2Live Youth Health Initiative partners deliberate on advocacy strategies. The programme has been working in its first and now second year to increase the capacity of young people to advocate for youth-friendly healthcare services. At least 209 young advocates have been trained and contributed to the development of advocacy strategies. They have had opportunities to engage with decision-makers at the local and national level to deliver advocacy messages, and in Senegal in particular they have participated in radio programmes to further articulate the need for youth-friendly health services. In April and July of 2013, the African YMCAs had the opportunity to participate in two continental meetings on health coordinated by the African Union. Part of this participation included input made to a pan-African advocacy group whose main purpose was to develop a position on health at the core of the post 2015 agenda and that was presented to heads of state at the Abuja special summit in July.
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YMCA Honduras
Highlight - Honduras - HIV prevention and sexual reproductive health
YMCA Honduras serves 300 young people a year with a programme aimed at contributing to the education of youth and adolescents on issues surrounding sexual reproductive health, sexually transmitted infections and the prevention of HIV/AIDS. Their methodology includes lectures, talks, camps, public fairs and meetings that allow for the fundamental comprehension of theoretical health concepts and the social contexts of each participant, with a further aim to sensitise the general population. The project is part of a larger network of organisations. In each community, volunteer groups are organised from which trainers are selected and prepared for spreading knowledge and reaching people in their community with an activity plan.
Civic Engagement According to The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, “in today’s world, young people come of age in one of two very different civic environments. In the developed world, youth face an unprecedented demographic trend: they are a minority group that will soon be forced to support the majority of the population socially and economically. In the developing world, on the other hand, youth have rapidly come to make up the majority of the population, yet they still often feel politically disempowered and economically abandoned by civil society”.
YMCA Victoria
Highlight - Australia - Youth and Parliament
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The Youth Parliament programme seeks to provide youth input to decision-making at the state government level. Some of the main goals of the programme are: Civics and Citizenship — To educate young people about the Australian system of parliamentary democracy by providing them with practical and realistic experience as legislators. Leadership Development — To provide opportunities for young people to develop leadership, public speaking, debating, writing and analytical skills through participation in the programme and the taskforce. Life Skills — To develop life skills and social skills through a residential programme based around the concepts of self-respect, respect for the opinions and beliefs of others, and respect for the environment. In its simplest form, young people prepare bills for debate, then come together in Parliament House to debate the issues of importance to them. The results of these debates are handed to representatives of the Government at the Closing Ceremony, as an indication of the youth opinion on the topics that have been debated. In 2013, 8 YMCAs in Australia conducted a youth parliament involving about 780 young people. Every YMCA Youth Parliament is conducted by a volunteer taskforce made up of young people who have participated in the programme before. The taskforce is the driving force of the programme. The role of the YMCA staff is to support the work of the taskforce - not to drive or steer the programme.
Y-Global Norway
Highlight - Norway - Young Peace Performers
The Young Peace Performers (YPP) group of 15 youth from 7 countries has travelled through Kenya, Tanzania and now Norway for 8 months of advocacy for justice and peace. Through shows and workshops, the YPP has mobilised young people in each country around awareness on global issues and engagement in campaigns such as “Stop Poverty”, led by Y-Global, the International Agency of YMCA-YWCA Norway. “We had a number of 40 youth show up to our workshop at Makadara, and we had lots of fun with them. Later on, the same day, we held the concert outside in the sun and it was a nice concert. We had people standing in the streets outside of the gate to watch the performance” – says YPP blogger
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Environment As the world discusses the need for urgent action to protect the environment for a sustainable future, young people are lagging behind in playing a major role in this arena. Yet at the same time, they are already facing the consequences of environmental instability in their daily life – be it in their employment conditions or in forced immigration caused by natural disasters.
APAY
Highlight - Asia and the Pacific - Green Challenge
From October 18-31, more than 20,000 young people took part in the Green Challenge - Green to the Core organised in 15 countries of the Asia and Pacific Region. In order to raise awareness among young people about their key role in environmental issues, several public activities were organised, including: tree planting, awareness building, workshops, cleaning, an art competition, an oratorical contest, plastic collection, organic farming, “zero carbon”, advocacy for ecology, a peaceful Sunday, and a light meal. Fun was a common trend throughout the events. As young people were learning and shaping their behaviour towards a sustainable future, they also used the opportunities to expanded their networks and make friends.
Highlight - Canada - Outdoor Education The Outdoor Leadership Centre of the YMCA of Western Ontario offers outdoor education experiences during the spring, summer and fall on the grounds of Scouts Canada’s Spencer Lodge, a 27-acre pocket of wilderness in North London. The activities raise awareness about the importance of nature and preservation of natural resources. The staff is carefully selected for their training and experience in experiential education, adventure programming, and leadership development. Environmental conciseness is a key area to help young people and children in shaping a global citizenship mentality.
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Change Agents By the end of 2013, 220 Change Agents from 63 countries had completed their year-round planned activities and are moving forward to the next phase. Nine regional trainings were held in 2013 in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Africa and Canada on top of a series of webinar sessions on topics such as civic engagement, global citizenship and leadership. In August, all Change Agents met as a group for the first time in Prague, Czech Republic, during the YMCA Europe Festival, where more than 5,000 young people from around the world assembled for a weeklong programme. Change Agents had training sessions each morning and fully engaged in the festival programme; they also led several speeches from the main stage which culminated in a dance performance for the festival closing ceremony. By December, each Change Agent was matched with a mentor to provide counselling and guidance as they perform their respective roles to bring about change in their contexts and to unite the YMCA movement globally under the umbrella of youth empowerment.
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Love2Live Festival Photo: YMCA Europe
Movement Strengthening
ONE MILLION VOICES The World YMCA launched the 1st phase of One Million Voices (OMV). The OMV project is designed to support research priorities of national YMCAs and to build a global understanding of issues of importance to the 15 – 24 year age group. OMV will gather the views and opinions of young people via questionnaire surveys together with 68 national movements. The full scale research project will be launched in 2014. From August to December 2013, more than fifty national movements participated in the pilot with over 1,000 questionnaires completed by young men and women in this age group. The purpose of the pilot was to test the questionnaire and to assess whether the words and questions used were easily understood. The OMV research project is under the technical direction and leadership of Professor Fred Coalter, of Leeds Metropolitan University in the UK.
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The YMCA Movement Strengthening framework reflects an integrated approach of the three pillars of Mission Clarity, Social Relevance, and Institutional Viability. This covers the strategic priorities of Youth Empowerment, Governance, Resource Mobilisation, Communications, Advocacy and Research. Movement Strengthening continues to have a strategic focus on leadership and governance; this was identified as a cross-cutting priority by the global movement. In 2013, leadership capacity increased in the world YMCA movement and new skills were developed in research and evaluation. Movement Strengthening results were seen through the integration of the youth empowerment initiative in all areas and in 63 countries. Change Agent leaders were identified and they participated in trainings. Two new initiatives started in 2013: •s trategic consultation with the YMCA World Urban Network members to evaluate and research a pilot property development project to strengthen resource development opportunities of local YMCAs in targeted countries. • i ncreasing capacity for research through the engagement of 68 countries in the One Million Voices research and impact measurement with new impact data gathered on youth employment and health programmes.
Board Team Building Activities Cayman Islands
The World YMCA worked together with all YMCA Area Organisations, as follows:
YMCA Latin America and the Caribbean with on governance and leadership and resource mobilisation including Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru, Haiti and the Cayman Islands. This strategy is focused on coaching and consultancy developed with inputs (based on successful initiatives) from YMCAs in the region.
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YMCA SetĂşbal, Portugal
- with YMCA Europe focused on organisational development and resource mobilisation. The pan-European focus continued with movement strengthening work with YMCAs in Portugal, Malta, France, Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Slovakia and Czech
Ghana YMCA
Rep.
YMCA of the USA facilitator at the Resource Mobilisation Training in the Philippines
-w ith Africa Alliance on movement strengthening through country focus groups and peer-to-peer sub-regional initiatives with Liberia, Ghana, Ethiopia, Gambia, and South Africa, Togo YMCAs. This included leadership capacity development, a strategic focus on resource mobilisation and alignment with two key initiatives: S2C (subject to citizen) and the multi-country health programme in 6 countries.
-w ith Asia and Pacific Alliance involving Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, India, Japan, New Zealand, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Fiji, Vietnam and Mongolia. This included collaboration with the APAY resource mobilisation training in India, Sri Lanka, Philippines and Japan.
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Love2Live Festival Photo: YMCA Europe
Resource Mobilisation
A strategic focus on resource mobilisation and the investments from the YMCAs’ Investors Circle are contributing towards strengthening the movement worldwide. YMCAs are successfully expanding and diversifying their resource base. Increased capacity, technical skills and knowledge for resource mobilisation is increasing in all Area YMCA organisations and in national and local YMCAs. New strategic alliances and collaborations have provided essential support to realizing the NEW WAY strategy goals. In 2013 the World Alliance mobilised more than USD 2 million in funds for Change Agents, One Million Voices, Staff Placements, corporate funding donations, government grants, meetings support, online gifts, and income-generating activities.
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At least 50 National Movements benefited from training and capacity building for resource mobilisation. New funds were secured by at least 13 National Movements (Ghana, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Madagascar, Kenya, Liberia, Senegal, Ethiopia, Russia, India, Sri Lanka, Philippines, and Australia). Six Local YMCAs in Latin America and the Caribbean further expanded their campaigns. These include: México, Sao Paulo, Porto Alegre, Bogota, Montevideo and Antofagasta (Chile). The amount of funds raised continued to increase and YMCAs collectively mobilised more than USD 6 million. There was an important increase in corporate contributions and individual donors. The national YMCAs of Barbados, Haiti, and Perú initiated a change process to build competencies in fundraising and strengthen their institutional viability. Strategic alliances and collaborations with the World Urban Network, NAYDO, Y’s Men International, UNDP, the International Labour Organisation (ILO), pro-bono consultants, and YMCA Partners brought important leadership, YMCA Senegal technical skills and resources, additional funds, and increased overall capacity for Resource Mobilisation in the global YMCA movement. The total estimated funds contributed from strategic alliances and collaborations during the period were: USD 1.6 Million. During 2013 all Areas made progress towards reaching their resource mobilisation goals. The Asia and Pacific Area implemented a range of successful workshops on fundraising and annual campaigns, Latin American and Caribbean YMCAs implemented branding workshops, governance and capacity building, knowledge sharing workshops on resource mobilization, and YMCAs in Europe held fundraising events. YMCAs in Africa expanded their training, communications, and technical support provided by the Africa Alliance to its member YMCAs. YMCAs engaged in more sharing and learning with other YMCAs within their Areas and developing context appropriate models. The practice of these YMCAs to share their learning together with other YMCAs continued to develop positively. Several new strategies are under discussion to promote and engage more national movements in this mutual learning and organisational capacity building process across national movements both inside and outside of the Areas. The African and Latin American Areas plan for their own continental version of fundraising and networking events for sharing and learning.
Naydo Conference in Vancouver, Canada
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Love2Live Festival Photo: YMCA Europe
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Week of Prayer | YMCA Peace Day
Under the theme “Be the Change”, YMCAs and YWCAs celebrated the Week of Prayer (November 10 - 16 2013) and organised events all over the world. The YMCA also celebrated YMCA Peace Day, which took place on the last day of the Week of Prayer.
Social Media | Internet
With changes in the website and continual investment in social media, the World YMCA continues to move its communications digitally and improve channels for interaction with its target audience. Special websites for the YMCA World Council 2014 (http://2014.ymca.int) and for the advocacy work (http://action.ymca.int) were created as additional tools for improved communications.
Blue Music Blog
The Blue Music Blog, edited by the World Alliance of YMCA’s secretary general, continues to communicate advancements on the implementation of the NEW WAY strategic plan at thebluemusicblog. ymca.int/
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Love2Live Festival Photo: YMCA Europe
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National General Secretaries Meeting - England
The Dunford House, a conference centre of YMCA England, hosted the National General Secretaries Meeting. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss global collaboration from the perspective of high-level staff leadership. National General Secretaries of 35 YMCAs discussed issues such as research-based work, resource mobilisation and strategy based on the collective focus on youth empowerment. One of the most important outcomes of the meeting was the agreement on the establishment of yearly meetings for better alignment and engagement in the World YMCA agenda.
Executive Committee Meeting – Jericho Inspired by the work of the YMCA in Palestine, the Executive Committee met for its annual meeting in April to oversee the progress of the NEW WAY strategy and to discuss future perspectives in relation to the next strategic period and the YMCA World Council. Hosted by the East Jerusalem YMCA, the executive committee members had the opportunity to visit branches of the East Jerusalem YMCA, including Bethlehem and the impressive Vocational Training Center. The visit from the World YMCA leadership was also a symbol of support to young people living in this part of the world, which included a visit to the Jerusalem International YMCA.
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Leadership as from July 2010 Executive Committee and Officers - President: Mr. Ken Colloton, USA - Deputy President: Mr. Fernando Ondarza, Mexico
- Treasurer: Ms. Helen McEwan, New Zealand - Secretary General: Rev. Johan Vilhelm Eltvik, (Norway*)
Members Africa
- Ms. Evelyne Mame Sami Gueye, Senegal - Mr. Charles Habiah, Ghana - Ms. Ethel Mashekwa, Zambia - Mr. Vezinhlahla Mncwango, South Africa - Ms. Lucy Wanjiru, Kenya
Asia and Pacific
- Mr. Edilberto Claravall, Philippines - Mr. Babu Markus Gomes, Bangladesh - Mr. Oliver Jia Wen Loke, Singapore - Ms. Hiromi Nagao, Japan
Canada
- Ms. Patricia Pelton
Europe -
Ms. Olga Lukina, Belarus Ms. Nadine Jording, Germany Mr. Uku Rasmus Lind, Estonia Mr. Ian Pearson, England Mr. Michael Will, Scotland
Latin America and Caribbean - Ms. Sofia Laborde Fernandez, Uruguay - Mr. Leopoldo Moacir Lima, Brazil - Ms. Sandra Pyke-Anthony, Trinidad & Tobago - Mr. Daniel Vives Rivero, Peru
Middle East
-M r. Simon Kouba, East Jerusalem - Mr. Ghassan Sayah, Lebanon
USA
-M s. Pamela Davies - Ms. Courtney Lawrence
Area Presidents:
-M r. James Ekow Rhule, Africa Alliance of YMCAs (Ghana) - Mr. Yau Chung Wan, Asia and the Pacific Alliance of YMCAs (Hong Kong) - Mr. Ed Eggink, YMCA Europe (Netherlands) - Mr. Peter Posner, UK, (Until May 2012) - Mr. Mauro Fonticiella, Latin American & Caribbean Alliance (Uruguay)
Past President
- Mr. Martin MeiĂ&#x;ner, Germany*
Observer
-P oul Henrik Hove Jakobson, Denmark Y’s Men International Liaison to the World Alliance* * (Non-Voting)
Officers Mr. Ken Colloton President
Mr. Fernando Ondarza Deputy President
Ms. Helen McEwan Treasurer
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Love2Live Festival Photo: YMCA Europe
Financial Overview
Auditor’s Report The financial statements of the Association are presented herein without their notes. For better understanding of the Association’s financial position and result of its activities for the year ended December 31, 2013, the auditor’s report and the financial statements should be read in conjunction with the notes that are available upon request at the Secretariat of the World Alliance of YMCAs or on the World Alliance website www.ymca.int 30 . WORLD YMCA ANNUAL REPORT 2013
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The World Alliance of Young Men’s Christian Associations Geneva
Balance sheet as at December 31
Notes
ASSETS
2013
2012
CHF
CHF
466'358
306'010
177'800
144'210
33'291
10'785
4'997
2'117
119'571
103'832
-
54'819
34'473
820
836'490
622'593
275'999
2'394
19'739'570
19'496'409
20'015'569
19'498'803
1
1
20’852’060
20’121’397
Current Assets Cash in hand and in banks Accounts receivable - contribution receivable - invoices receivable - inter-office receivable - miscellaneous Project deferred expenses, net Prepayments
Investments portfolio Cash and short term investment accounts Long term bonds and investments 7
Fixed assets Furniture and equipment
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Balance sheet as at December 31
Notes
LIABILITIES
2013
2012
CHF
CHF
-
25'416
Current Liabilities Banks overdraft Miscellaneous payables
1
244'018
220'617
Projects deferred income, net
2
47'535
-
291'553
246'033
Reserves and Funds Other reserves and funds
3
818'398
1'179'678
Refugees and Rehabilitation funds
4
1'131'179
1'131'179
Endowment funds
5
1'429'539
1'450'141
JRM MOTT endowment funds
6
17'180'702
16'072'186
689
42'180
20'560'507
19'875'364
20’852’060
20’121’397
Result of the year
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Statement of income and expenditure for the year ended December 31
2013
2012
INCOME
CHF
CHF
1’466’013
1’512’257
National Movements Fair share Publications
382
17’888
1’466’395
1’530’145
Investments and other income Interests
49’682
50’852
Refund/Administrative charges
2’920
4’380
Donation
1’265
384
25’809
119’365
-
75’849
- JR MOTT investments appreciation
960’666
891’409
- JR MOTT interest and other income
224’002
216’003
1’264’344
1’358’242
356'595
230’515
Funds income: - Other Reserves & Funds - Endowment funds
World Alliance Project Income Funds Income Release of provisions and reserves
Total income
72'758
62’363
364'422
188’000
793’775
480’878
3’524’514
3’369’265
84’421
36’747
EXPENDITURE
Programs Publications and communication staff Translation
-
2'455
138'000
-
1'632
2'219
82'878
29'166
28'743
-
335'674
70'587
Projects expenses Funds expenses Other reserves and funds Funds investments losses :
268'865
335'781
87'272
176'079
- Other Reserves and funds
22'425
16'339
- Endowment funds
52'157
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- JR MOTT
76'151
52'291
506'870
580'490
Research program expenses Leadership development areas and Global Young professional programme Youth empowerment
Projects and funds
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Statement of income and expenditure for the year ended December 31
2013
2012
CHF
CHF
1’062’066
1'063'035
Pension/retirement
126'380
137'035
Internal/external Consultant
133'334
134'569
1’321’780
1’334’639
39'282
54'856
8'059
14'528
29'924
24'162
2'038
14'670
Personnel Salaries and benefit
Governance Executive Committee meetings GOP movement Visit to national movements and areas Standing Committees/GST meetings Public Relation /Contingencies
16'601
39'197
95'904
147'413
56'786
58'149
Administration Communication
2'881
7'000
Equipment maintenance and supply
Library
12'688
10'294
Audit fees
21'000
18'500
Financial charges
11'317
14'896
Building maintenance and running cost
56'204
64'459
160'876
173'298
36'733
-
5'785
5'644
42'518
5'644
Total expenditure
2’463’622
2’312’071
Surplus of income over expenditure
1'060'892
1’057’194
(87’731)
108’174
- Other Reserves and funds
83'888
7'781
- Endowment funds
52'157
(75'849)
(1'108'517)
(1'055'120)
(1'060'203)
(1’015’014)
689
42’180
Others Appartment expenses Miscellaneous
Attribution to Funds/Projects Project transfer from (to) Funds transfer from (to):
- JR MOTT
Final result of the year
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Love2Live Festival Photo: YMCA Europe
Thank you to our Supporters 36 . WORLD YMCA ANNUAL REPORT 2013
We are extremely grateful for the support we received in 2013. YMCAs and individuals have contributed generously to strengthen the global YMCA movement. Your outstanding support has contributed to the YMCA worldwide in many ways: Youth Empowerment, Movement Strengthening (Organisational Development), and Resource Mobilisation (the Investor’s Circle).
Thank you for your support!
YMCA’s contributions Africa Alliance YMCAs Argentina Brazil Bangladesh Canada (+ 3local Ys) YMCA of Calgary YMCAs of Quebec YMCAs of Toronto Denmark East Jerusalem YMCA England Germany Hong Kong SAR, China India Liberia Mexico Japan Norway Scotland-AberdeenY Singapore Spain Sweden USA (+26 local Ys) YMCA of Greater New York YMCA of the Greater Houston Area YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas YMCA of San Diego County YMCA of North West North Carolina YMCA of Silicon Valley YMCA of Greater Charlotte YMCA of Greater Indianapolis YMCA of Greater Richmond YMCA of Middle Tennessee YMCA of Orange County YMCA of the Greater Twin Cities YMCA of the Rockies Valley of the Sun YMCA Ann Arbor YMCA YMCA of Cincinnati YMCA of Greenville YMCA of Oklahoma City YMCA of the Brandywine Valley Austin Metropolitan YMCA YMCA Central Kentucky YMCA of Philadelphia YMCA of Greater Long Beach YMCA of Westfield (NJ) YMCA of Coastal Georgia YMCA of Metropolitan Fort Worth
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Individual contributions Aisa Akapson Andrew Mackenzie Bill Stewart Brazilian Youth Carlos Sanvee Cathy Duchon Claude-Alain Danthe Courtney Lawrence Cynthia Flynn Ernesto Gaona Fernando Ondarza Gabriel Carrasco Gail Glasser Gerard Tosserams Ghassan Sayah Gustavo Andrade Helen McEwan Ian Green Jacqueline Rien James Ekow Rhule Janet Pate Johan Vilhelm and Ingunn Eltvik John Lilley Kamran Razvan Ken Colloton Kohei Yamada Lee Kernan Leopoldo Lima Manuel Camarena Mark Hills Mark Johnson Marty Reynolds Mary Tikalsky Michael Weil Michel Danthe Mike Will Mike VanHaelewyn Nick Zimmer Patricia Pelton Peter Burns Peter Posner Polly Dong Renata Ferrari Rocio Solis Russell Leech Sandy Berlin-Walker Sandy McIntyre Scott Haldane Selma Zaidi Silvio Krauss Susan Waterfield Suzanne Watson Terry Ratcliffe Tom Dana Tom Valentine Zolair Trinidade
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Waking the Giant Campaign YMCA of Bombay YMCA of New Delhi YMCA of Ahmadabad YMCA Indian Student Hostel YMCA of Canada YMCA of the USA Y’s Men Club Sweden Y’s Men Club Geneva England YMCA United Methodist Church Y’s Men International YMCA Hiroshima
General Funding/Support Y’s Men International YGlobal, Norway UNDP (Interagency Network for Youth and Development meeting) UNDESA (Commission of Social Development meeting) European Youth Forum (Advocacy Trainings at UN Centers)
Online donations Adolf Martin Weder Adrian and FranMoody Alice Mairs Alicia Crawford Arcilon Rocha Betsy Gleeson Brandy Huxley Brenda Blakovich Brianne Dos Santaos Emily Wimpenny François Muller Glenn Whitehead Glenys Allum Helen Palethorpe Janet Walmsley Jerry Colwell Jo Frogatt Joyce Riem Kersten Lagerquist Mauricio Marin Meghan Fitzgibbon Melissa Sims Patricia Baker Patricia Jimenez Paul Rorie Paul Way Redmond Quain Samuel Diaz Fernandez Susan Emerson Thomas Christian Godsk Larsen Thomas Marsh Wendy Couturier
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Contact Us
World YMCA
Middle East Committee
Rev. Dr. Johan Vilhelm Eltvik, Secretary General
Ghassan Sayah, Chair Person
12 Clos Belmont 1208 Geneva - Switzerland Tel: +41 22 849 51 00 Fax: +41 22 849 51 10 www.ymca.int office@ymca.int
Africa Alliance of YMCAs Carlos Madjri Sanvee, General Secretary State House Avenue, State House Crescent P.O. Box 60856, Nairobi, Kenya Tel: +254 20 2714644/2724804 Fax: +254 20 2725909 www.africaymca.org aaymcas@africaymca.org
Asia and Pacific Alliance of YMCAs Kohei Yamada, General Secretary 23 Waterloo Road 6th Floor, Kowloon Hong Kong SAR Tel: +852 2780 8347 / 2770 3168 Fax: +852 2385 4692 www.asiapacificymca.org office@asiapacificymca.org
Latin America and Caribbean Alliance of YMCAs Mauricio Diaz Vandorsee, General Secretary Vicente Rocafuerte No. 1678 Montevideo, Uruguay 11.400 Tel: +598 2 600 99 40 www.lacaymca.org comunicaciones@lacaymca.org
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Delta Center, 3rd Floor - Horsh Tabet – Sin El-Fil - Beirut – Lebanon - Postal Code: 2706 5101 Sin El-Fil Tel: +961-1-490640 ymca@ymca-leb.org.lb
YMCA Canada Scott Haldane, President and CEO 42 Charles Street East, 6th Floor Toronto, ON, M4Y 1T4 Tel: +1 416 967 9622 Fax: +1 416 967 9618 www.ymca.ca/ services@ymca.ca
YMCA Europe
(European Alliance of YMCAs) Juan Simoes Iglesias, General Secretary Na Porici 12 - CZ-110 00 Prague 1 Czech Republic Tel: +420 224 872 020 Fax: +420 224 872 025 www.ymcaeurope.com info@ymcaeurope.com
YMCA of the USA Neil Nicoll, President and CEO 101 North Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 Tel: +1 800 872 9622 www.ymca.net international@ymca.net
YMCA World Alliance Team Staff
Rev. Johan Vilhelm Eltvik, Norway Secretary General
Selma A. Zaidi, USA Senior Executive Secretary for Movement Strengthening and Resource Mobilisation
Romulo Dantas, Brazil Executive Secretary for Youth Empowerment and Communications
Suzanne Watson, England Finances & Administration
Jacqueline Rien, France Accountant
Claude-Alain Danthe, Switzerland IT, Archivist and Webmaster
Samuel Diaz Fernandez Littauer, Colombia Communications and Advocacy Coordinator
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Carlos Sanvee, Togo Advisor to the Secretary General, Branding & Communication
Jose Varghese, India Advisor to the Secretary General, Global Citizenship & Programmes
Ian Green, England Advisor to the Secretary General – Property Development and Research
Staff Placement Programme 2013
Abraham Martinez, MĂŠxico
Matheus Medeiros, Brazil
Sven Larsen, Norway
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Youth Empowerment Advisory Group To enable the successful implementation of the NEW WAY Strategic Plan, the World YMCA consults with young leaders to advance the different projects related to the strategy and to guarantee strong youth perspectives on its work. - Peter Avong (Nigeria) - Maryse Guinez Coly (Senegal) - Thoumiyan Soundaram (Sri-Lanka) - Alvin Khan (Hong Kong) - Jen Hutchinson (Canada)
UN Team
- New York: Dio Gica and Rayda Marquez - Paris: Myriam Verger
Resource Groups Leaders
- Bob Cabeza, USA (Youth Empowerment) - Marcus Gustafson, Sweden and Mathilde Thue, Norway (Environment) - Ghassan Sayah, Lebanon
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Andre Kpodonu (England) Sarah Simmank (Germany) Tony El Mir (Lebanon) Antonio Merino (USA) Ashley Kolaya(USA)
- Major Group on Children and Youth: Ingrid Anderson
(Resource Mobilisation) -P eter Burns, Australia (Social Enterprise) - Dr. Jai Chang Park, South Korea (Global Citizenship)
Volunteers
The World Alliance of YMCAs is thankful for having dedicated volunteers on board to support its efforts to empowering young people. To all of you that worked in 2013 in our offices in Switzerland, THANK YOU! 1. Professor Fred Coalter, Ireland 2. Sarah-Jane Arnold, UK 3. Ladys Huber Amaya, Colombia 4. Filipe Gonzaga, Brazil 5. Carrie Diaz-Littauer, USA
Translations Team
10. Beatriz Temprano, Spain 11. Eva Hermann, Germany 12. Mirko Simmank, Germany 13. Franka Knier, Germany 14. Kevian Fiashinou, Togo 15. Meram Dawoud, Egypt 16. Nadine Rafidi, Jordan
Strategic Partnerships
- United Nations - Y’s Men’s International - International Coordination Meeting of Youth Organisations (ICMYO) - World YWCA
For more details, visit
6. Hanna Maier, UK (YCare International) 7. Adrian Davies, EnglandKosovo 8. Patrícia Ferreira, Brazil/ Portugal 9. Steve Webb – USA
17. Olga Lukina, Belarus 18. Raed H. Abu Jries, Palestine 19. Sabine Ayeni, Germany 20. Watan, Palestine 21. Claude Alain Danthe, Switzerland
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Alliance of Youth CEOs YMCA World Urban Network Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance North American Urban Group (NAUG) - World Council of Churches
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