Our Mission

The YMCA of Three Rivers Foundation was established in 2022 as an independent registered charity. Gifts to the Foundation are an investment in the future of the YMCA of Three Rivers (YMCA). Your donation supports our ability to be a centre of community where potential grows, everyone belongs, and health goals are achieved—one individual, one child and one family at a time.

Foundation Gifts ensure that the YMCA provides long-term sustainable funding to meet the ever changing needs of our community, from the new babies who are learning to swim and local kids who need a special place to belong and be active, to our eldest neighbours who need support to overcome the effects of isolation and chronic disease.

Our Vision

Transforming the Guelph-Wellington, Stratford-Perth, and Waterloo Regions into healthier communities is our priority.

About the YMCA of Three Rivers Foundation

We realize the importance of positive activities and experiences that promote healthy choices, personal growth and community engagement. For more than 150 years, we have been offering values-based programs and services that enable people to develop in spirit, mind and body.

Funds are held in perpetuity and the earnings derived from these investments provides income for the YMCA year after year. A portion of the earnings are directed to support the YMCA’s area of greatest need, while the remaining earnings are reinvested in the fund.

Gifts to the Foundation allow the YMCA to establish innovative programs and services, to extend services into new communities and to address community needs in ways that otherwise would not be possible.

We are not able to predict the future needs and the programs that the YMCA will provide, but we do know how critical it is for the YMCA to have the resources to respond to the needs of our community.