Ymca of northern utah's mission is to provide communities with programs that build strong kids, strong families and strong communities

The Y's inclusiveness extends "to all" in which the ymca strives to provide value to and serve everyone in the community despite socio-economic status, race, religion, age gender and abilities. The ymca takes pride in providing financial assistance for fee-based programs. This ensures that all children and families have access to a safe environment with high quality, enriching programs. The proposed vista project aligns with the education focus area. The vista project will focus on two education objectives (1) school readiness and (2) K-12 success and expects to benefit at least 3,200 low-income youth and families. Ymca is seeking to engage four americorp vistas in building our agency's organizational capacity to deliver programs and services that help bring individuals and communities out of poverty. Three will be placed in our salt lake office and one will be placed in our ogden office. Activities such as surveying programs on current outreach methods, researching best practices for outreach/marketing, designing measurement tools to track and measure activities, research grant opportunities, meet with partners to identifying new ways to braid existing resources, grant writing and writing grant reports to funders, identifying best practices, review data to determine where instruments or data collection methods are effective; research needs assessments, performance measurement and data collection tools; and coordinate the implementation of the agency's training systems to effectively use newly adopted tools and setting up systems for internal replication over the course of 3 years.