Profile: YMCA - Boise

About Us

The Treasure Valley Family YMCA is a charitable, volunteer-based organization that has been serving the Greater Treasure Valley for over 115 years through community programs, camp, health facilities, and child care centers, providing programs for over 37,000 youth annually. We are a not-for profit, 501 (c) 3, United Way agency.

Mission: The Treasure Valley Family YMCA welcomes all people and provides an atmosphere to enrich spirit, mind and body. We are dedicated to the values of caring, honesty, respect, and responsibility. Our programs enhance individual health and well being, strengthen personal and family relationships and develop leadership skills. We build strong kids, strong families, strong communities.

The YMCA is open to everyone - all ages, abilities, incomes and faiths.

• The YMCA offers financial assistance for all of its programs.

• No child is turned away due to inability to pay.

• The YMCA gave over $4 million in financial assistance in 2007.

The YMCA is volunteer founded, volunteer based, and volunteer led.

• In 1989, 978 individuals supported the Y with their time and talent.

• Today, more than 5,500 people volunteer at the Y, with approximately one-quarter of that number being youth.

The YMCA meets community needs.

• In the last decade, YMCA full-facility membership has grown from 4,894 to 50,000 today.

• The YMCA offers programs in over 90 sites community-wide.

• One out of every two youth in Ada County is involved in at least one YMCA program.

• The YMCA offers youth program, including Camp, Child Care and After-school Programs, Leadership Development, Youth Sports Youth Government and Y-Guides.

The YMCA is supported by the community.

• The annual Strong Kids Campaign is supported by hundreds of volunteers and donors in the Treasure Valley, raising funds to provide the financial assistance to children and youth to ensure that no one is turned away from a YMCA program because of inability to pay. Click here to find out more about Strong Kids.

• Through Capital Campaigns the Treasure Valley Family YMCA is growing throughout the Treasure Valley and beyond, to serve the ongoing needs of health-seekers, children and youth.

• The YMCA Endowment Fund encourages giving through estate planning and outright gifts. Gifts to this fund provide a permanent legacy of support for all that the YMCA does in this community.

Core Values: Your YMCA’s Foundation

CARING, HONESTY, RESPECT AND RESPONSIBILITY. Words to live by? We think so at the YMCA. These are the four character values that the YMCA embraces and how all staff, volunteers and participants are expected to base their actions. No action will be implemented or decision made unless it takes into consideration or incorporates Caring, Honesty, Respect and Responsibility.

Our Membership Pledge

No one will be turned away due to inability to pay