How To Contact Ymca Corporate Office Headquarters
National Council of Young Men’s Christian Associations of the United States of America
101 N. Wacker Dr.
Chicago, IL 60606 USA
Corporate Phone Number: 1-312-977-0031
Fax Number: 1-312-977-9063
Customer Service Number: 1-800-872-9622
The YMCA in Port Royal SC has many issues. It was recently announced that the CEO is going to start a new Y in Okatie but will still draw his salary and the Child Care Director will take over his responsibilities. When conversing with a Board Member, it was apparent they were trying to pull something when he became defensive. Experience tells me they are pulling a fast one. Ever try contacting Corporate? They offer no support. Many of the The Y staff members have not been informed. Very confusing. There are many more issues.
My Name is Randall Ishida I have been a member of the Nuuanu YMCA in Honolulu Hawaii for about 8 years, a small amount of time compared to the average senior member whose memberships can be traced to 50 years plus… I have grown up in gyms and now at the age of 60 find the Nuuanu YMCA lacking in credibility and honesty.. is truth "constructed" of ordained ?
management has recently announced that they will be charging for parking, now on the surface this may seem only fair given the economy in Hawaii and lack of parking space.
but if we look more closely at the motives: over a year ago the Atkinson YMCA was closed, a developer had committed to redeveloping the property with condominiums and then adding a portion of that space for a new YMCA.
So the property was closed and the membership moved to Nuuanu .. fast forward, it is our understanding that the developer was not what he claimed to be and ran off with all the funds that was put in escrow.. the amount is said to be 400 to 500 thousand dollars.
Now the corporate office is faced with a huge loss… and overcrowding at Nuuanu, we are now one ohana (family) and it has been a good "blended family" with the members from 2 seperate YMCA's.. most of the members from Atkinson used to belong to Nuuanu. .. so we deal with the parking, it is what it is.
What we are going to be charged is up to 5 dollars per day if we are at the YMCA over 2.5 hours
so to be blunt the members who have been money in the bank for the YMCA for the better part of their adult lives are are now being told that to workout it will cost them up to 200.00 plus a month in parking.
No other YMCA on Honolulu is being charged this ! Why are we being penalized for poor management ? Management will say this is not true, then why the absurd rate ?
Management can "spin" this anyway they want, (which they are doing), but the bottom line is and has been admitted to a few.. this is a "fund raiser"..
my question is why is the burden being put on the membership for poor decisions made by the powers that be, who could of done a better job stewarding the money that had to of come from profits via membership dues.
The YMCA has been a non profit organization with core values that reflect the morale values that our society has lost in this postmodern era, but sad to say it has become a part of the postmodern trend.
donations are down drastically, (no question why on my part)
I was looking at just 4 members together over 200 years of membership today, where is the membership appreciation.. to single out one YMCA for an absurd parking fee .. exclusively as a fund raiser for capitol improvement .. should of taken better care of the funds that membership created in profit.
In closing, I think this "parking fee" needs a closer look, none of us are opposed to a fair and honest assessment .. but such a rate for parking will force many out and donations will drop even more.. if its more revenue they are after.. raise our dues.. fairly and with transparency.
I hope this will spur our National Headquarters to open dialogue with our members and the admin in Honolulu.
I remain,
Mahalo Pumehanna ..
Randall T Ishida
Stay away from this gym in Downtown Los Angele, CA. I've had my watch and gym bag stolen in less than 2 months. There seems to be an influx of homeless people who are obviously not there to workout. Most recently I witnessed a man threaten another man with a knife on the basketball court. The gym lockers are infected with roaches as a result of the homeless people who often come in with flithy smelly plastic bags. I've spoken to management about this and they do not seem one bit concerned. Management seems to discount the obvious safety concerns and does nothing to prevent any if these issues. Save your money and protect yourself, your belonging and go to safer & cleaner gym!
DISGUSTING. They YMCA is a JOKE.. A money hungry rip off of a joke.
My daughter and I became members of the YMCA in Houston Tx ( cypress station) 2 month ago. Yesterday I had to cancel my membership with them due to a fight that broke out in the basketball court. Luckily my daughter was not injured. I told them the reason for why I was canceling my membership was because I did not feel my daughter would be safe going there anymore. They told me that i need to give a 10 day notice before canceling and since I was a day late that they were going to have to charge me for the following month. Now we hardly ever used the facility and thought that was unfair due to the circumstances of why I had to pull her out. I am definitely telling anyone who wants to join the YMCA not to!!!
My daughter and I became members of the YMCA in Houston Tx ( cypress station) 2 month ago. Yesterday I had to cancel my membership with them due to a fight that broke out in the basketball court. Luckily my daughter was not injured. I told them the reason for why I was canceling my membership was because I did not feel my daughter would be safe going there anymore. They told me that i need to give a 10 day notice before canceling and since I was a day late that they were going to have to charge me for the following month. Now we hardly ever used the facility and thought that was unfair due to the circumstances of why I had to pull her out. I am definitely telling anyone who wants to join the YMCA not to!!!
My name is Tyler Bakker and I had started a membership so I could start working out. I signed the one year contract and everything. About 4 to 6 months later I attempted to cancel my membership as I hated the facility, all of them. I called what I thought was my spartan store ymca, only to find out later it had automatically directed me to the corporate line. Not a single soul told me this until later. I talked to a very nice lady and asked to cancel my membership. She asked me a few questions and then she said I was all cancelled. The next month I notice a payment made to you. So I call the ymca again and this time I finally get through to an actual location. When I asked about this they told me I was locked into it for a year because of my contract. This was completely fine with me except for the fact that I was told I was already canceled. The nice lady at this store today me that this has been happening a lot. I called the corporate number back only to find out that meant I was canceled for when my year is up. I dealt with this. I figured whatever just a mix up. I even confirmed with my ymca that it would be done when my year was up. After just recently checking my bank account I realize I have been charged for 4 months of membership after my year was up. That is over 200 dollars. I called my location again and the man I talked to told me he could only reverse the newest transaction because I have no proof of this happening. I understood this he doesn't have the power. Now I just want to know what the hell is wrong with you guys. You seem to have extreme problems with communicating things to your location from a corporate level. I can promise you I will tell everyone in the world I ever meet about the 150 dollars that the ymca stole from me. I will stop anyone I know from getting memberships there ever. This is absolutely ridiculous for somthing like this to happen twice and make me lose this much money. I don't make a lot of money and I'm currently paying myself through college. That much money can hit someone harder than you'd expect. I used to think you were a good organization now I know your a horrible comoany.
I just want to encourage the ymca membership in Sioux Falls South Dakota to start canceling your memberships with the ymca. They do not do background checks on there employees and you should be concerned about the well fair of your children! Also we lost a 15 yr. veteran employee at there Y,'s Buy thrift store this week from being Bullied and continually harassed by morning callers. We need to put this unchristian business Out of Businesss!
Thats just sick and illegal!
Hey, I just found out they move there corrupt managers who get into trouble from ymca to ymca just like the catholic church does with the priests who get in trouble.
We have a new boss at the ymca in the sioux falls calling center for the y's buy thrift who is having a affair with a caller on day shift. There is no hope for this organization or its ethics.
I just resigned my position as a night shift caller at the YMCA Advancement in Sioux Falls due to the continual bulling and harassment of a morning worker and also the C in YMCA no longer stands for Christian as you'll see in the paragraph above the new boss at the calling center is having an affair with one of the morning callers and I know who this person is and it makes me sick. The ethics are gone.