REACHYOURPOTENTIAL

YMCA of MetropolitAn AtlAntA 2012 AnnuAl report

MAKE PROGRESS HEREWe see it being made every day … in young children learning to read their first books by themselves, in families that build stronger bonds through Y soccer and gymnastics, and in busy corporate leaders who care about young people in their community and show it.

ContentS

Letter from Board Chair and president

04 06 08 10 12 13 14for Youth Development

for Healthy living

for Social Responsibility

2012 Impact

financials Board,Volunteers,locations

Reach your potential

Progress comes in all shapes and sizes and is built at the Y. We have the coaching, goal-setting expertise, teaching techniques, practice facilities, and supportive environment to help people of all ages, abilities, backgrounds and incomes develop the foundational tools to reach their goals.

the Y also connects you to others in your community who might learn how you achieved your goal, benefit from your advice or need the inspiration you unknowingly provide while they watch you work to exceed your goals.

At the Y, achieving your personal goals connects to larger aspirations. Every day greater impact is felt when a community comes together for the common good. Each of us can reach our individual potential, then work together toward the shared social responsibility of caring for others.

Currently, the Y is turning its potential into reality by making progress on a four-part agenda to:

• Ensure school readiness - Children will learn to ‘Read Right from the Start’ and achieve healthful weight categories to enhance their learning ability through Start For Life™ program;

• Improve academic achievement - Close the achievement gap by third grade for school-age learners in reading, math and science and reduce obesity rates through Youth Fit For Life™ program;

• Empower healthy living - People of all ages will have the tools to reach their full potential through signature programs and strategic partnerships;

• Inspire teen leadership - Prepare teens ages 11 to 18 to lead and serve by providing opportunities to develop leadership skills and progress along the Y’s leadership continuum.

As a result, more children are reading at grade level by fourth grade and maintaining their academic momentum during the out-of-school summer months. More families are making choices to get active together. More teens are developing their civic transcripts as Y volunteers in their community.

Potential becomes reality through progress at the Y. You see it in young children like Nyla who are learning to read. You see it in families like the Archers who build stronger bonds with each other and with their community. You see it in volunteers like Joe Guerra who care deeply about others and help to provide the opportunity for all people to belong at the Y.

The Y can help you set and achieve goals you never thought possible. You can get there from here. Now that’s progress.

MELANIE PLATT, ED MuNSTER, Board Chair president & Ceo

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FOR YOUTH DEvELOPMENT

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The Y nurtures potential. Children get an early learning foundation at the Y, so they are socially, academically and emotionally ready to start kindergarten. In collaboration with the Atlanta Speech School, the Y implements a program called Read Right from the Start, which helps to put children on the path to read to learn by third grade. After a year in Mrs. Winston’s classroom at the Dean Rusk YMCA Head Start Academy, 4-year-old Nyla blossomed into a self-confident reader who loves to learn new words.

ThaT’s progress.

Michelle talks about Nyla’s development and new skills at www.ymcareport12.com

“This is Nyla’s first formal school. I had an expectation that she would be learning, but I never thought it would be such a great experience. our time here has been very positive. After a year at the Y, she knows her alphabet, colors, rhyming words and more.” “Nyla’s success today is her continual growth and learning. at the beginning of the year, she was a reserved, quiet and shy individual. Now she’s speaking up and exhibiting leadership, which will help her with success. she is interacting more with her peers, and she just loves meeting new people all the time. She’s climbing the steps of the success ladder.” MICHELLE MERRELL, Nyla’s mom

“Students gain a love and passion for reading with Read Right from the Start. It creates passion within the teachers as well, because every time we read a book, we’re looking for different feedback from the children, so it’s not like we’re reading the same, old story. preschool is where the children get their foundation, their love and joy for reading. It’s very important to expose them to books at a young age: if they get that love and joy now, I believe it will continue throughout their school years.”

MRS. WINSToN, Nyla’s teacher

FOR HEALTHY LIvINGAt the Y, families can spend quality time being active. The Y empowers families to reach goals together. The Archers, members of the Northwest Family Y, joined when they moved to Kennesaw 12 years ago. An avid exerciser and mom of two, Melanie Archer challenges herself physically at the Y. By volunteering as a Y soccer coach, she teaches the importance of healthy living, teamwork and sportsmanship to her children and to each of her players.

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“The YMCA keeps me active. I have kids, so I want to live a healthy lifestyle and be a role model for them. The main things for me are to be comfortable with my surroundings, be active in the community and volunteer. The Y combines these things for me. I can work out at the Y anytime. I use the drop-in play center, so my kids are there being active and having fun. Plus, there are a lot of activities the Y offers that everyone in our family can do together.”

“A focus on healthy living is what keeps us young. My husband travels a lot, and I need a good, healthy lifestyle to get through each day. There are so many things that can be a conflict, like expectations from work, job, friends, and family. It positively impacts us, because we use all of the resources. It’s changed our lives by keeping us on a good path and keeping us focused on the things that truly are important in life.”

“The Y keeps my children active. My kids really enjoy running around and just being typical kids. It makes me feel good as a parent having them do something they love and enjoy, while having someone I trust who can teach them. I played soccer growing up, and now I coach. My son loves it, and that’s awesome. My daughter is a little girlier and loves gymnastics and dance, which I have no clue about. It’s great for LeAnne to have a knowledgeable instructor and she is learning so much.” MelAnie ArCHer

ThaT’s progress.

Melanie tells what keeps her coming to the Y at www.ymcareport12.com

FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIbILITYThe Y is where children, teens and adults can share their potential with others. Local residents, civic leaders and communities join together to effect lasting, meaningful change by giving back and providing support to their neighbors. Joe Guerra, founder, president and CEo of Sequoia Golf Holdings, LLC/Canongate Golf Clubs, is a YMCA of Metro Atlanta board member and longtime Y advocate. Joe’s commitment to philanthropy and to his community is demonstrated with the Y Golf open.

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“The Y Golf open is Atlanta’s largest charity tournament. It is hosted at six Canongate courses throughout the city on the same day. This year we’re expecting 750 players and will raise close to $200,000. These monies benefit children and families at Ys all over Atlanta by providing the help of financial assistance for Y programs, services and membership.”

“The Y has the potential to assist and influence the broadest spectrum of kids and families across Atlanta. The Y’s focus on building confidence, potential and success is unparalleled. The culture of personal and social change has been established for decades, and the impact has been proven time and time again. For me, there’s no better place in our community than the Y for assisting in the development of others.”

“As CEos, we are fortunate to have the skills, opportunities, parents, friends, DNA, and opportunity to live and lead in the u.S. We should not waste, under any circumstances, these parent- and God-given attributes. They should be used to do more than make a profit. We can and should create collateral social impact in the process. This means donating time, financial resources and access to human capital to make our community and environment better for others, kids in particular.” JoE GuERRA

participate in the october 7, 2013, Y golf open. www.Ygolfopen.com

ThaT’s progress.

Joe discusses why he helps others reach their potential at www.ymcareport12.com

eNsure school readINessIn Georgia, 7 of 10 public school fourth graders cannot read at grade level. Before children can read to learn, they must learn to read, so early childhood education is essential. preschoolers with improved overall language ability, literacy skills and alphabet knowledge start school on a path to read to learn by third grade.

With the Atlanta Speech School as a partner, the Y is coaching early education teachers to greater success with their students’ progress through a professional development program called Read Right from the Start. The YMCA of Metro Atlanta pairs this program with Start For Life™, developed by our Y to address activity levels of preschoolers, resulting in healthful and appropriate weights.

Measuring progress at the Y. By developing a comprehensive foundation of preschool language skills at early education and Head Start academies, the YMCA of Metro Atlanta is closing the school readiness gap for 3,243 infants and toddlers.

Improve academIc achIevemeNTout-of-school school time can be as important as the hours spent in school for students who arrive at school unprepared and continue to fall further behind. With academic enrichment programs in reading, math and science, caring Y tutors are working to close the 17 percent reading and 19 percent math score gaps that develop by fourth grade on standardized tests for Atlanta children receiving free or reduced lunches.

Measuring progress at the Y. After-school directors receive professional development in reading, literature,

math and vocabulary curricula. More than 4,773 children are active in Y after-school enrichment programs. those with low grades or below standard test scores are receiving tutoring and have action plans to improve their overall achievement.

empoWer healThY lIvINg Two of every 3 American adults are overweight or obese. Nearly 8 of 10 obese adults have diabetes, coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, or osteoarthritis. Key indicators this pervasive require large-scale community health improvement collaboration.

Recognized as a health behavior scholar and researcher, James Annesi, Ph.D., FAAHB, is director of wellness advancement and developer of YMCA of Metro Atlanta research-to-practice health promotion protocols. He also is professor of health promotion at Kennesaw State university’s Wellstar College of Health and Human Services. Since 2000, the Y has attracted more than $6 million in research-to-practice health behavior change grants; reduced exercise drop out by 40 percent for hundreds of thousands of people locally and across the nation; and, embedded significant lifestyle changes and healthy habits.

Measuring progress at the Y. In the past year, more than 7,489 children and adults are living healthier, weigh less and are more active through their participation in THE CoACH ApproACH®, Youth Fit For Life™, Start For Life™, Winship at the Y, and the YMCA’s Diabetes Prevention Program, evidence-based instruction, coaching, and support groups implemented by local Ys.

INspIre TeeN leadershIpGeorgia’s high school graduation rate is just 67 percent, and its teen unemployment rate is 31 percent. By inspiring teen leadership, Y staff members prepare teens ages 11 to 18 to lead and serve by providing opportunities to develop and practice their leadership skills.

Through Y programs designed to promote social responsibility like Mission: Atlanta, Advanced Leadership Academy, Teen Leaders Club, and the annual giving campaign, teens are developing their civic transcripts, learning how to make better decisions and becoming more responsible and civic-minded.

Measuring progress at the Y. In 12 counties and hundreds of local neighborhoods, the Y engages more than 100 partner organizations, 6,250 donors, 6,938 volunteers, and 5,056 staff members to help more than 23,308 teens advocate for a more level playing field and demonstrate the importance of caring for others.

COLLECTIvE IMPACTThe YMCA of Metro Atlanta has the experience, skill and reach to create and sustain large-scale community improvements. We respond to community needs with measurable outcomes to ensure school readiness, improve academic achievement, empower healthy living, and inspire teen leadership. Signature programs make gains on these community needs, with assistance from trusted partners, funders and stakeholders from many leading organizations.

sTaTemeNT of fINaNcIal posITIoNAs of December 31, 2012

all fuNds 2012 2011

assetsCash and cash equivalents $ 3,927,367 6,105,559 Accounts receivable 2,931,441 3,911,858 Investments 6,298,979 6,874,149 Pledges receivable 2,035,764 3,961,423 other assets 1,867,687 1,171,134 Notes receivable 9,520,000 9,520,000 Land, buildings and equipment 243,211,834 232,755,104 Long-term investments 22,137,565 20,360,209Total assets $ 291,930,637 284,659,436

liabilities & Net assets liabilities: Accounts payable $ 5,379,006 4,339,057 Accrued expenses and other liabilities 821,337 889,841 Deferred revenue 7,732,435 4,534,912 Custodial liability 530,841 532,052 Notes payable and capital lease obligations 19,572,582 19,597,405 Bonds payable 63,474,093 65,748,277Total liabilities 97,510,294 95,641,544

Net assets: unrestricted 135,262,210 137,796,990 Temporarily restricted 44,761,111 37,207,017 Permanently restricted 14,397,022 14,013,885Total net assets 194,420,343 189,017,892 Total liabilities and net assets $ 291,930,637 284,659,436

sTaTemeNT of fINaNcIal posITIoNAs of December 31, 2012

all fuNds 2012 2011

public supportunited Way $ 404,359 593,143 Contributions 22,953,247 17,612,582 Government grants 21,899,291 23,680,463Total support 45,256,897 41,886,188

revenue Membership dues 30,114,099 29,301,488Program service fees 25,704,732 24,708,025 Interest and dividend income 830,684 532,468other revenue 557,696 897,504Total revenues, gains and other support 102,464,108 97,325,673

expenses Program services 89,810,686 91,740,202 Management and general 7,613,476 5,602,790Fund raising 1,047,965 1,206,997Total expenses 98,472,127 98,549,989 Excess of operating revenue over expenses (3,991,981) (1,224,316)

Non-operating activities Gain on sale of fixed assets 212,688 174,806Loss on interest rate swap (208,671) (2,345,147)Net unrealized and realized gains on investments 1,406,453 (1,393,602)Total non-operating activities 1,410,470 (3,563,943)

Change in net assets 5,402,451 (4,788,259)Net assets at beginning of year 189,017,892 193,806,151Net assets at end of year $ 194,420,343 189,017,892

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A copy of the complete audited financial statements, including Ernst & Young’s unqualified independent auditors’ report, is available upon request.

Board memBers

BoArD CHAirMelanie plattAGL Resources

Joe ArnoldSunTrust Bank

Melissa Marek BabbHarbert Management Corporation

Kelly BarrettThe Home Depot

Kathy Betty

Jim Brady IIIDeloitte

Warren G. CarsonKPMG LLP

Kathleen CiaramelloThe Coca-Cola Company

Carol CookerlyCookerly Public Relations

Keith Cowan

J. Hal Daughdrill IIIDiversified Trust Company

Clark DeanStudley, Inc.

Curley M. Dossman Jr. Georgia-Pacific Foundation

tammy Strawder DriggersEquifax

Donya edlerAMeC

Laura Lee Gentry

Richard Gerakitistroutman Sanders

Mark GranthamDLA Piper

Billy B. GreerPrudential Capital Group

Joseph GuerraSequoia Golf Holdings,LLC/Canongate Golf Clubs

execuTIve commITTee

Melanie plattAGL Resourceschair

Joe ArnoldSunTrust Bankpast chair

Kelly BarrettThe Home Depotvice chair

C.B. (Mike) Harreld

Stephen HennessyHennessy Automobile Companies

Jennifer HightowerCox Communications

Bill HolbyKing & Spalding

David e. HomrichAMB Group, LLC

Roland JohnMcKinsey & Company

Charles Johnson Sr. Wililams-Russell & Johnson

Milton H. Jones Jr. CertusBank

Sharon James JordanChartis Aerospace Insurance Services, Inc.

Kerry KohnenKaiser permanente

larry lordMindspring Collaborative

Frank T. MannCushman & Wakefield of Georgia, Inc.

paul p. MattinglySeyfarth Shaw LLP

Linda MatzigkeitChildren’s Healthcare of Atlanta

Phil McGregorState farm insurance

Neil MetzheiserLockton Companies, LLC

Michael parisCouncil for Quality Growth

Richard (Rick) S. PetersPeters Consulting Associates, LLC

William pintoHardin Construction Company, LLC

John ReyhanSkanska

Joy RohadfoxRohadfox Construction Control Services

Carol CookerlyCookerly Public Relationsat-large

Warren G. CarsonKPMG LLCtreasurer

J. Hal Daughdrill IIIDiversified Trust Companyat-large

Frank RomeoupS foundation

H. Jerome Russell Jr. Russell New urban Development

Matthew David SamuelsonIntegralGude Program Management

paul ShailendraShailendra Group

Christine St.ClareSt.Clare Advisors, LLC

Brant StandridgeBB&t north Atlanta region

David P. StockertPost Properties, LLC

R. Scott Taylor Jr. Carter

Glenn ThomsonAlston & Bird

Leonard WalkerWells Fargo Bank NA

Vicki Lundy WilbonThe Integral Group, LLC

Mark WilsoneVerifile

Douglas l. WilliamsAtlantic Capital Bank

Charles R. Yates Jr.

hoNorarY Board memBers

Guy MillnerAssurance America Corporation

W. A. Parker Jr. Comanche investment Co.

James Sibley

Governor Carl Sanderstroutman Sanders

Bill HolbyKing & Spaldingat-large

Milton H. Jones Jr. CertusBankat-large

William pintoHardin Construction Company, LLCat-large

advIsorY Board memBers

Jack Beasley

tom BellSecurAmerica, LLC

J. David ChathamChatham Holdings Corp.

James Cowart

Denis DuncanPricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Jimmy Fluker

Larry Gellerstedt IIICousins Properties Inc.

Richard Guthman

Harald Hansen

thomas D. Hills

Warren Jobe

A. Wayne Luke

John ManningManning & Associates

Allen McDanielCitigroup

Joseph Riedel Jr.

Jerry ShaiferPiedmont Water Company

Richard (Dick) Shirk

John E. Smith II

Dr. Kenneth taratus

John Turman Jr.

robert turner

David P. StockertPost Properties, LLCvice chair

R. Scott Taylor Jr. Carterat-large

Charles R. Yates Jr. secretary

2012 BraNsBY chrIsTIaN leadershIp aWard

Charles R. Yates Jr.

2012 voluNTeers of The Year

lisa Bael AmanCarl e. Sanders family YMCA at Buckhead

ronald Benton iiAndrew and Walter Young family YMCA

Bill Bruton Jr. McCleskey-East Cobb/Northeast Cobb family YMCAs

Carlo S. Davila payaneCDC/YMCA Head Start

tenecia DixelYMCA Academies of South DeKalb

Richard GerakitisYMCA of Metro Atlanta

Kim Ellis GökçeCowart Family/Ashford Dunwoody YMCA

Virginia “Louise” Hagerrobert D. fowler family YMCA

Marnie Hirsch & Michele Seymour Summit family YMCA

Jack Hurleynorthwest family YMCA

Brenda KingArthur M. Blank Family Youth YMCA

Cynthia KuhlmanEast Lake Family YMCA

Vekeisha LackeyJ.M. Tull-Gwinnett Family YMCA

linda faye MayhandSouth DeKalb family YMCA

Lydia ParkerCovington family YMCA

Mark PieroniEd Isakson/Alpharetta Family YMCA

Jim PritchettYMCA Camp High Harbour

Melody richardsonforsyth County family YMCA

Carla Smiththe Villages at Carver family YMCA

Clara Mae Van BrinkG. Cecil Pruett Community Center/Cherokee outdoor YMCAs

Mac WillettDecatur family YMCA

arThur m. BlaNk famIlY YouTh Ymca555 Luckie St.Atlanta, GA 30313404-724-9622

BraNsBY ouTdoor YmcaceNTer aT rock chapel1185 Rock Chapel Rd.Lithonia, GA 30058770-484-9622

cherokee ouTdoor Ymca201 east Bells ferry rd.Woodstock, GA 30189770-345-9622

covINgToN famIlY Ymca2140 Newton Dr.Covington, GA 30014770-787-3908

coWarT famIlY/ ashford duNWoodY Ymca3692 Ashford Dunwoody Rd.Atlanta, GA 30319770-451-9622

decaTur famIlY Ymca1100 Clairemont Ave.Decatur, GA 30030404-377-9622

easT lake famIlY Ymca275 East Lake Blvd.Atlanta, GA 30317404-373-6561

faYeTTe ouTdoor Ymca215 Huiet rd.Fayetteville, GA 30215770-254-9622

forsYTh couNTY famIlY Ymca6050 Y StreetCumming, GA 30040770-888-2788

roBerT d. foWler famIlY Ymca5600 West Jones Bridge Rd.Norcross, GA 30092770-246-9622

ed IsaksoN/alphareTTafamIlY Ymca3655 Preston Ridge Rd.Alpharetta, GA 30005770-664-1220

mccleskeY-easT coBB famIlY Ymca1055 east piedmont rd. neMarietta, GA 30062770-977-5991

NorTheasT coBB famIlY Ymca3010 Johnson Ferry Rd.Marietta, GA 30062678-569-9622

NorThWesT famIlY Ymca1700 Dennis Kemp Ln.Kennesaw, GA 30152770-423-9622

g. cecIl prueTT commuNITY ceNTer famIlY Ymca151 Waleska St.Canton, GA 30114770-345-9622

carl e. saNders famIlY Ymca aT Buckhead1160 Moores Mill Rd.Atlanta, GA 30327404-350-9292

souTh dekalB famIlY Ymca2565 Snapfinger Rd.Decatur, GA 30034770-987-3500

summIT famIlY Ymca1765 East Highway 34Newnan, GA 30265770-254-9622

J.m. Tull-gWINNeTTfamIlY Ymca2985 Sugarloaf Pkwy.Lawrenceville, GA 30045770-963-1313

The vIllages aT carverfamIlY Ymca1600 Pryor Rd.Atlanta, GA 30315404-635-9622

Wade Walker parkfamIlY Ymca5605 Rockbridge Rd.Stone Mountain, GA 30088678-781-9622

Ymca academIes of souTh dekalB2575-A Snapfinger Rd.Decatur, GA 30034770-987-4666

2924 Evans Mill Rd.Lithonia, GA 30038770-484-1625

Ymca camp hIgh harBour685 Camp Harbour Ln.Clayton, GA 30525770-532-2267

40 old SandtownCartersville, GA 30121770-532-2267

Ymca pauldINg earlY chIldhood developmeNT academY55 Hiram DriveHiram, GA 30141678-626-0500

aNdreW aNd WalTer YouNg famIlY Ymca2220 Campbellton Rd.Atlanta, GA 30311404-523-9622

Ymca/earlY chIldhooddevelopmeNT co., llchead sTarT100 edgewood Ave. neSuite 1230Atlanta, GA 30303404-420-5800

bOARD, vOLUNTEERS & LOCATIONS

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Bransby Outdoor YMCACenter at Rock Chapel

YMCA Academiesof South DeKalb

Covington Family YMCA

South DeKalb Family YMCA

YMCA Academiesof South DeKalb

Fayette Outdoor YMCA

Summit Family YMCA

YMCA Camp High Harbourat Lake Allatoona

G. Cecil PruettCommunity Center Family YMCA

Cherokee Outdoor YMCAon Lake Allatoona

Forsyth County Family YMCA

Northeast Cobb Family YMCA

NorthwestFamily YMCA

McCleskey-East Cobb Family YMCA

Robert D. Fowler Family YMCA

YMCA CampHigh Harbour

Ed Isakson/Alpharetta Family YMCA

J.M. Tull-GwinnettFamily YMCA

Cowart Family/Ashford Dunwoody YMCACarl E. Sanders

Family YMCAat Buckhead

YMCA Head Start

YMCA PauldingEarly Childhood Development Academy

Arthur M. BlankFamily Youth YMCA

East Lake Family YMCA

Decatur Family YMCAWade Walker ParkFamily YMCA

Andrew and WalterYoung Family YMCA

The Villages at CarverFamily YMCA

= Child Care only

= Family ymCa

= Programs only

YMCA of Metro Atlanta100 edgewood Ave. neSuite 1100Atlanta, GA 30303www.ymcareport12.com404-588-9622

Ymca mIssIoNYour YMCA, reflecting its Judeo-Christian heritage, is an association of volunteers, members and staff, open to and serving all, providing programs and services which develop spirit, mind, and body. Financial assistance is available based on need. the YMCA actively seeks to identify and involve those in need.

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