Community Outreach

Rochester, NY - Basketball was invented at the YMCA more than 130 years ago with a simple idea: use sport to bring people together through movement, teamwork and healthy competition.

Rochester, NY – The YMCA of Greater Rochester is proud to announce the next chapter of service at The Lewis Street YMCA Neighborh

The YMCA of Greater Rochester has partnered with First Tee – Western New York to provide 20 youth with free golf lessons this summer.

ROCHESTER, NY – At the heart of the YMCA of Greater Rochester is community – the community we serve and create across our locations. Both service and creation of community is on full display at The Lewis Street YMCA Neighborhood Center, especially during our annual Lockdown on Violence event.

SPLASH WEEK The YMCA of Greater Rochester is proud to announce the return of Splash Week April 1-5.

ROCHESTER, NY – The building at 53 Lewis Street has served the Marketview Heights community for decades in various roles, but one thing has never changed: it’s there for its neighbors.

Rochester, NY - In 1963, in Birmingham, AL, four girls were killed in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church after several KKK members planted 19 sticks of dynamite outside of the church's basement.

Painted Post, NY – The YMCA of Greater Rochester is proud to announce the opening of the new Event Center at The Y at Watson Woods.

Rochester, NY – The YMCA of Greater Rochester and University of Rochester Medicine are bringing the mobile mammography van to locations thro