Who We Are
Y Service Clubs USA is the U.S. Area of Y Service Clubs International, a worldwide volunteer movement that partners with the YMCA to strengthen communities through service, leadership, and fellowship. (Y Service Clubs USA)
Across our U.S. Regions, local clubs unite people to deliver community projects in the areas of health, environment, and education—while building leaders and friendships through service. (Y Service Clubs USA)
We advance this mission through Area programs such as scholarships and disaster relief that help clubs meet real needs locally and nationally. (Y Service Clubs USA)
To get involved, use “Find a Club” to connect with a nearby club or reach out and we’ll help you get started. (Y Service Clubs USA)
Our Mission
YMI (Y’s Men International) is an inclusive international association of affiliated clubs making positive and enduring difference in the world through fellowship, community projects in the areas of Health, Environment and Education and partnering the YMCA mission worldwide.
To be a recognized, globally oriented, voluntary service organization with a strong and committed membership that strives to enhance human values, with special focus on youth development, while upholding our motto “To Acknowledge the Duty that Accompanies Every Right” and working in active service and close partnership with the YMCA, the United Nations and other worthy organizations to build a better world in which to live.
Our Vision
Our Motto
This motto was adopted by Y’s Men because of the tendency of most people to insist upon full enjoyment of all rights while remaining oblivious to the corresponding duties giving validity to such rights. Just as the green light giving right of way to traffic on one street must have a corresponding red light to warn traffic on the cross-street of its duty to stop, so every right we enjoy is founded upon a corresponding duty. Our motto is a constant challenge to us to pay less heed to our rights, and more to the discovery and discharge of their corresponding duties – to transfer the emphasis from rights to duties.
STRATEGY 2032 provides a 10-year blueprint to build YMI into an organisation eminent in fellowship and community impact, collectively inspired and working collaboratively to help build an equitable and sustainable world. It affirms our desire to thrive collectively and to make an enduring and positive difference in the world as we enter our second century of existence. Learn more about the 2032 Strategy
Our Objectives
Our Founder
Judge Paul William Alexander was a member of the first club and is known as the author of the Constitution. He presented the idea of other YMCA Clubs. Known as the founder of clubs beyond the Toledo YMCA. He was elected as the first International President while assisting with encouraging growth of new clubs. Today, the Judge would be pleased to see that the idea of Y’s Men is open for ALL and provides service in so many clubs and countries.
Our History
Utilizing the Boosters (persons donating $100 to YMCA), a small club of 17 men agreed to start a club in 1920 like the Rotary for the support of the YMCA. In 1922, this club grew in size and support. The idea of clubs for other YMCAs was presented in 1922. They were “men of and for the Y” and the name for the idea was called “Y’s Men’s Club”.
2032 Strategy & YMI Focus 2.4
2032 Strategy
