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Browsing by Subject "YMCA"

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    KEY Zone Afterschool Program and its Impact on Parent Involvement
    (2015) Hexum, Amanda L; Williams, Julia
    This research was conducted to assist the Duluth YMCA’s afterschool program, KEY Zone, in describing and enumerating its current parent involvement. The KEY Zone Program offers afterschool programming to approximately 1000 Duluth children. Sixty percent of those children participate in this program with assistance from federal grant funding. An additional 400 children pay to participate in this afterschool program. With so many children struggling, both nationally and locally, to achieve academic success and to reach graduation, this afterschool program may provide an opportunity to improve skills needed for academic success as well as other life and work skills. Parental involvement is considered by many to be significant if not necessary for children to find success in school. The KEY Zone Program allows for a bridge between the school day and home providing an opportunity for parents to be connected with and involved with school in a variety of ways. This research describes parental involvement as seen by program participants and presents findings and recommendations for further development. The KEY Zone program is positioned to have a significant impact on academic achievement for children of Duluth.
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    Selling the Mission: The North American YMCA in China 1890-1949
    (Institute of History, National Central University, Chungli, Taiwan, 2012-12-01) Bean, Ryan
    The archival material relating to the history of the North American Young Men’s Christian Association’s (YMCA) activities in China, housed at the Kautz Family YMCA Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries, spans over a hundred years of involvement in the region. The greater part documents the entry of American YMCA secretaries into the field in 1890 through to the creation of the People’s Republic in 1949. The YMCA’s role in the history of missionary work is curious. The YMCA was not organized as a missionary enterprise, though it worked intimately with missionaries. Over time the YMCA’s scope and work in China evolved. This paper seeks to trace an outline of that evolution - in particular the evangelical outreach in the missionary field - as evidenced by the material contained within the Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
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    YMCA World War I Service Punch Cards
    (2018-10-29) National War Work Council, Y.M.C.A. of the United States; ldfs@umn.edu; Friedman-Shedlov, Lara; Kautz Family YMCA Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries
    In the course of staffing its assigned operations and the other activities in support of the armed forces during World War I, the American YMCA recruited a grand total of 25,926 workers who, about equally divided between home and overseas assignments, served under the auspices of the organization. A partially machine-readable punch card was generated for each worker, including some or all of the following data: name, gender (men are on buff cards, women on white, African American Y/N (blue cards), year of birth, address, occupation, work placement, Placement date, salary, date left or returned, qualifications, religion, placed home vs. overseas, marital status, and education. The cards, which total approximately 27,600 including cross-reference cards, were digitized by the University of Minnesota Libraries and subsequently transcribed and indexed by FamilySearch International.