Lindsay Young Downtown YMCA

✨️NEW CLASS!✨️

Move better. Feel better. Stretch it out.

Join Kendalyne for Mobility and Stretch every Monday @ 12 PM starting Monday, September 14th at the Downtown Y.

Improve your range of motion, balance, and flexibility.

Our YMCA of East Tennessee Evening of Impact online auction opens at 5 PM today, and ANYONE can bid!

You don’t have to attend Thursday’s Evening of Impact Gala to join in. Browse the auction and bid on some incredible items, including:
🏈 Signed UT Sports Memorabilia
💆 Massage & Spa Experiences
⛳ Rounds of Golf at Local Courses
🎣 Fishing Excursions
🍽️ Local Restaurant Experiences
🎨 Local Art
✨ And SO much more!

This auction is about more than winning something great. Every bid helps support YMCA programs for people in our community who need us most.

Your bid can help:
🏊 A child learn to swim
❤️ A single working parent afford high-quality childcare
🤝 A teen connect with a caring mentor
💙 A senior stay active, connected, and less isolated

You bid. Someone in our community benefits. That’s the power of the Y.
👉 View items and bid now: https://shorturl.at/Mv48T

Not ready to bid but still want to help? You can make a donation, too!
👉 Give to the Y here: https://ymcaetn.org/give

Share this post with someone who loves a good auction, because you don’t have to attend the Gala to make a difference!

YMCA of East Tennessee's Evening of Impact Silent Auction The YMCA of East Tennessee’s Evening of Impact Auction brings our community together to create meaningful opportunities for children, families, and neighbors…

🧘‍♀️Take a break, stretch it out and start you day feeling refreshed.✨️

Join us for a POP UP YOGA CLASS!

🗓 Wednesday, September 9th
⏰️ 7:30 AM
📍Lindsay Young Downtown Y yoga studio

Come move, breath, and start your Wednesday better.

⛳ LAST CALL! There’s still time to enter your team in Monday’s YMCA Golf Tournament at Egwani Farms!

Choose your flight:
🌅 Morning Flight: 8:00 AM
☀️ Afternoon Flight: 1:30 PM

Swing for a cause and help raise scholarship funds that make YMCA programs accessible to more kids, families and individuals right here in our community.

Ready to tee it up for the Y? Email Jared at [email protected] to enter your team.

📚 School is back in session, and we've got the perfect part-time job for college students, young adults, and retirees!

Join our After School Child Care team and get paid to make a difference. Lead arts and crafts, help with homework, organize games on the playground, and help kids find their confidence.

✔ Work 2–5 days per week
✔ No nights or weekends
✔ Free YMCA membership
✔ Valuable job training
✔ Opportunities for advancement
✔ Competitive pay
✔ On-demand pay available (get paid the day you work!)

The YMCA provides After School Child Care in 18 Knox County Schools from Farragut to Halls, so we're likely hiring near you!

Not interested in after-school care? We have opportunities in aquatics, health and wellness, member services, and more.

Find the role that's right for you and apply today at ymcaetn.org/careers.

215,565 meals!

This week, we crossed a milestone we've been working toward all summer: more than 200,000 meals served.

In Week 8 alone, our YMCA of East Tennessee Summer Meal Program provided 24,557 meals, bringing our summer total to an incredible 215,565 meals.

We're not celebrating a number. We're celebrating 215,565 moments of relief.

Moments when a parent didn't have to wonder how they were going to feed their child that day. Moments when kids had a nutritious meal to fuel their play, learning, and growth. Moments when families could gather around the table knowing there was enough.

To every volunteer, staff member, partner, donor, and family who has been part of this journey: thank you. Together, we're making sure that when school is out, food doesn't have to be.

It's not too late to volunteer and be a part of this incredible program in our community! These last few weeks of summer are when volunteers are needed the most. Choose a location, choose a day and time, and show up for local families!

Volunteer: https://shorturl.at/m5rZT

🏆 We need your vote! 🏆

The YMCA is honored to be nominated in this year’s Community Choice Awards, and we’d love your support!

💙 Best Fitness Center
💙 Best After School/Summer Camp Program

If the YMCA has been your place to get stronger, make new friends, reach your goals, or simply feel at home, we’d be honored to have your vote!

Thank you for being part of our Y family and for supporting a place that’s so much more than a gym. Vote today and help us bring home both titles! 🏅

2026 Knox Stars Community's Choice Awards Voting Ballot Check it out now!

We're going to NORWAY! Join us!

Join Our April 2027 Trip to Norway!

Venture to a place where crashing ocean meets craggy mountains, forging the natural majesty of the Norwegian fjords. From Bergen to Oslo, you’ll be awestruck by the grandeur of Norway.

Interested? Come to a no-obligation interest meeting September 15th at 10am at the Pilot Family Y Outdoor Pool building.

Learn more: https://groups.gocollette.com/en-US/link/1433090

Week 7 🍎

This week, the YMCA of East Tennessee served 25,944 meals through our East Tennessee Grab & Go sites, YMCA Summer Day Camps, and community lunches at our outdoor pool.

Every week, families share messages of gratitude with us. This week, one story from a family in Rutledge especially touched our hearts (shared with permission):

"Hello, thank you so much for the food program. It's an enormous help.

Currently our family has undergone tremendous financial strain as on 6/4 they found a tumor, which was scheduled to be removed 7/7. We have not been able to get help with SNAP or TANF in any way, and without your program our girls would be without. As a parent missing many meals just to be sure the girls eat has been hard. Unfortunately Grainger County seems to be strained... We appreciate everything you do and are glad because it's not Knoxville. You don't exclude the children in the least from a program that is dire. The fact you offer it is amazing, and again thank you!"

This is why the YMCA serves communities far beyond our city limits. We work alongside schools, community partners, and local organizations to reach families in rural communities and other areas where the need is greatest.

This week, we're confident we'll surpass 200,000 meals served for the summer.

As we celebrate that milestone, we hope you'll remember that every single meal represents something much bigger than food; it represents hope, dignity, and one less child going hungry.

Thank you for supporting our YMCA and your neighbors across East Tennessee!