The Ymca Of Greater Pittsburgh Essay - 927 Words

The YMCA of Greater Pittsburgh received a 1.5 million dollar grant from the Heinz Endowments (December of 2015) to re-purpose the Homewood Brushton YMCA into a Creative Youth Center. Presently, we have a youth program the Lighthouse Project, which is about nine years old and currently housed at Westinghouse High School. The YMCA Lighthouse Project is an afterschool program for teens that teaches leadership and career readiness through the media arts of film, photography, graphic design and music production. The students participate in workshops with a focus on photography, journalist, fashion design, visual arts, music production, dance, graphic design and the Bridge to College workshop. â€Å"With the repurpose of the YMCA the Lighthouse Project will move from its present location at Westinghouse High School. Starting with the 2016-2017 school year, the program will be relocated to the YMCA,† said Williams. The transformation will involve conference rooms, the Family Support Center and the multipurpose room. These rooms will be repurposed into a commercial kitchen and performance stage. When asked if the repurpose of these rooms would be enough to hold the anticipated student enrollment in the 2016-2017 program, Williams replied, â€Å"The program generally serves between 50 and 60 students per school year (October thru June); with the upcoming school year we plan to double that number.† The students will not be lumped into one common area, but move from module to moduleShow MoreRelatedMonsanto: Better Living Through Genetic Engineering96204 Words   |  385 Pagesdifferently. For instance, with deregulation of the airline industry in the United States, older, established airlines had a signiï ¬ cant decrease in proï ¬ tability, while many smaller airlines, such as Southwest Airlines, with lower cost structures and greater ï ¬â€šexibility, were able to aggressively enter new markets. Porter’s ï ¬ ve forces model is a useful tool for analysing the speciï ¬ c industry (see Chapter 2). Careful study of how the ï ¬ ve competitive forces (that i s, supplier power, buyer power, potential