Summary
Two things strike me about the imbroglio in which leaders of the YWCA find themselves. First, board members and administrators completely underestimated the community's depth of feeling toward their scruffy fitness center. Second, this is what comes of running philanthropies like a business.
Last month, the board of directors at Charleston's YWCA agreed that it could no longer afford to offer a fitness center. Nautilus runs the center and pays the YWCA a management fee - $97,000 in one year alone. But that income doesn't cover all the fitness center's expenses, so the Y continues to lose money on the operation, said board vice president Elizabeth Pellegrin.See the full content of this document
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Whose Ywca Is This?
I find people are incredulous at this pronouncement. I suspect that most passing observers just assume that the profit from the YWCA's fitness center helps to support worthy programs, such as help for battered women and childr...
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