Youth Support Campaign

Not everyone in our community can afford the programs that our YMCA offers. It is the YMCA’s goal to ensure that no one is turned away from the YMCA due to the inability to pay. Money raised during the Youth Support Campaign helps those members of the YMCA and our community to afford programs by offering financial assistance for membership and program participation.

YMCA receives $200,000 gift

The Billings YMCA recently thanked First Interstate Bank and the Homer A. and Mildred S. Scott Foundation, two organizations that played a key role in restoring the YMCA to better financial footing. “A community is measured by the services that it offers its citizens, and 15,000 people use this facility,” said Lyle Knight, CEO of First Interstate.

First Interstate and the Scott Foundation were early and significant contributors to a $2.5 million capital campaign launched to retire debt and make improvements at the Billings YMCA. To date, $1.9 million has been raised toward the goal, according to YMCA CEO, Paul Manning.

First Interstate launched the campaign in 2004 with a combination of gifts totaling $200,000. Since then, First Interstate, its employees and the Scott Foundation have contributed more than $525,000 to the YMCA. The most recent gift was given by the Homer A. and Mildred S. Scott Foundation as part of the 5:1 Matching Grant that the YMCA triggered after raising an additional $1 Million by the end of last year.