Missoula YMCA just $200K short of its $15M campaign goal for new facility

(Missoula Present) With the countdown to the brand new 12 months underway, the Missoula Household YMCA is trying to ring in 2023 having reached the $12 million-mark in its ongoing capital marketing campaign.

The group this week stated it had raised $11.8 million in its objective to gather $15 million in its Right here for Good marketing campaign. That leaves simply $200,000 left excellent.

“The help of our Right here for Good capital marketing campaign has been wonderful,” stated Heather Foster, CEO of the Missoula Y. “We’re simply shy of getting raised 80% of the mission’s full $15 million price. Our objective is to boost one other $200,000 by Dec. 31.”

The YMCA launched its marketing campaign final September with a objective of renovating and revitalizing its dated Russell Avenue campus. The group has served tons of of hundreds of western Montanans because it opened in 1967.

However whereas the quantity of people that make the most of the ability have grown, the Y’s bodily areas have remained unchanged and have turn out to be dated. The present facility on Russell Avenue opened in 1987, and its childcare middle operates from a donated modular trailer, circa Nineteen Seventies.

Along with a brand new childcare middle, the multimillion-dollar mission contains constructing a brand new youth innovation middle, a brand new health studio and an expanded drop-in childcare middle.

The mission already has backing from many native and statewide philanthropic donors, together with the Dennis & Phyllis Washington Basis, which just lately dedicated $2 million towards a brand new baby care constructing.

Groundbreaking is scheduled for spring 2023.

“Our Y has at all times put a whole lot of power into being a great fiscal steward,” Foster added. “We’re a debt-free group and we actually delight ourselves on working with donors to verify we’re utilizing their presents to make the best, most optimistic influence potential.”

All {dollars} raised are tax deductible and help the marketing campaign. Naming alternatives can be found. Extra info on the YMCA Right here for Good marketing campaign will be discovered at ymcahereforgood.com.