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YWCA Metro Vancouver fonds
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Financial records

Subseries documents YWCA Metro Vancouver’s management of its funds. Activities represented include: attainment of funds from grant applications, foundations, and wills; receipt and documentation of funds from these sources as well as from fundraising and donations; use and/or reimbursement of funds; reporting of funds obtained and used; and contract negotiations with parties external to YWCA Metro Vancouver.

Records consist of financial statements with annual reports, meeting minutes, contracts, reports, budgets, correspondence, and other material arising from the attainment, use, and general management of funds.

Fitness and adult education

Providing physical fitness services alongside other wellness activities was an early function of YWCA Metro Vancouver. The organization introduced physical training classes between 1912 and 1914 and expanded its offerings after the opening of a new gymnasium in 1924. Fitness programming first encompassed classes such as marching, calisthenics, aesthetic and folk dancing, as well as athletic sports such as basketball and grass hockey. These physical fitness courses were offered alongside adult education classes including English literature, Bible study, French, dress-making, and shorthand. Over the following decades, the YWCA further developed its fitness courses, programs, and clubs alongside its adult education offerings at its central program building, Pender Y, various branch Y’s, and off-premises with Y clubs and at city-wide events. In 1957, a pool was added to YWCA facilities and swimming courses and programs were introduced. In the 1960s, the YWCA responded to an increase in Vancouver community centres and public facilities by moving towards courses focused on “social development” and “development of the individual.” 1964 saw the introduction of classes such as “Yoga-Psycho-Therapy,” “Judo: the Art of Self Defense,” and yoga camps. During the 1970s, the YWCA focused on fitness for special interest groups with its post mastectomy, prenatal, and osteoporosis programs. In 1994, YWCA Metro Vancouver opened its Health + Fitness Centre in its Hornby building. Programs center around its facilities including a pool, gymnasium with machines and weights, two studios for various classes, and pickleball court.

Material in this subseries arises from YWCA Metro Vancouver’s fitness programs and adult education classes, management of fitness facilities, and operation of services associated with YWCA fitness centres.

Records include programs, photographs, schedules, and other material arising from the operation of fitness programs and fitness centres.

Five women

Item is a video by the YMCA about YM/YWCA women's programming. It features voiceovers of women who have attended these programs.

Fundraising and donor relations

YWCA Metro Vancouver engages in fundraising from the community on several fronts: general, ongoing fundraising for the organization as a whole; fundraising for specific services and programs; events put on with the main mission of fundraising; and Capital Campaigns to fund large-scale building renovations, refurbishment, and/or purchases. Material in this series arises from YWCA Metro’s fundraising campaigns, fundraising events, and donor relations.

Records consist of reports, correspondence, memoranda, donor lists, publications, presentations, and other records arising from planning, publicizing, and carrying out fundraising activities.

General programming

Subseries documents YWCA Metro Vancouver’s programs, clubs, conferences, and workshops for special interest and social groups. The YWCA’s identified priorities have typically influenced the direction of its general programming. From the 1930s to 1960s, focus on leadership development for teenagers resulted in the high school YWCA club called Hi-Y or Y-Teen. This program reemerged as Soromundi between 1982 and 1991. A mentorship program began around 1990 to assist young women in enhancing their interpersonal skills and exploring career opportunities. The YWCA also developed and involved itself in programming including: several clubs at Pender Y engaging with the Chinatown community from 1940 to the 1970s; the Housewives Holiday, later called Take a Break, a program for home makers from the 1950s to 1970s; Single Mothers’ groups and the Annual Single Mothers’ Conference from the 1970s to 1990s; and the Mature Women’s Conference from 1987 to 1989.

Material in this subseries arises from Hi-Y and Y-Teen activities, About Town programs, the Mature Women’s Conference, and other programs, clubs, conferences, and workshops run by the YWCA.

Records consist of reports, programs, newsletters, brochures, photographs, and other material arising from planning, promoting, and running these programs.

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