Give $90 for Kenosha YMCA 90th Anniversary!

SERVING KENOSHA FOR 90 YEARS!

In the spring of 1928, pioneer automaker Charles W. Nash and his wife, completed a study of youth needs in Kenosha. The results of their study led them to make a $400,000 donation toward a community youth center on the condition that their fellow residents match it dollar-for-dollar. Along with their challenge gift to Kenosha, Mr. and Mrs. Nash made the stipulation that, “The new institution will be for the good of all religious classes of whatever denomination…will treat each and every religious denomination as part of the institution…and that one religious denomination will be as welcome as another.”

Three thousand Kenoshans met that challenge and the million-dollar building, first an affiliate of the YMCA (Young Men’s Christian Association), opened its doors and was dedicated to public service in November of 1930, during the worst economic depression in our nation’s history.