News & Events

YMCA360.org and resources during Coronavirus

As Ys around the world work alongside local governments and organizations during the pandemic, YMCA 360, the CMO Basecamp group, and the Open Y community are supporting each other with an amazing show of abundance and goodwill.  

YMCA360.org 

The YMCA 360 website is live with 60 on-demand exercise classes and more on the way! Special thanks to the Greater Wichita YMCA, YMCA 360 Founders and Leadership team for making this fabulous community resource available so quickly. 

Announcing the Open Y design system

Open Y has come a long way in three years. What started as a philosophy based on the idea of sharing has evolved into an active platform serving more than one-third of Y members in the United States. We’ve made remarkable progress but we’re just getting started. We plan to take some more big steps in 2020, including the creation of a new design system for Open Y.

Open Y brand updates (2020)

The Open Y core team is pleased to announce that Open Y's visual brand identity has been updated. These updates are documented in the new Brand Application Guidelines document. We have also begun the process of documenting the Open Y Summit brand.

Brand changes

The most notable changes include the following:

Open Y'ed Podcast

Open Y'ed is podcast created by and for the Open Y community, which serves the greater YMCA movement. Learn more about the Open Y platform and meet the people contributing to it. Also, camelidae.

 

Getting your digital safety plan in order

While outages and “digital emergencies” are rare, they do happen. As with any type of emergency planning, knowing what to do beforehand helps everyone stay calm and reach a quicker resolution. 

Ask for your partner’s emergency protocol and share it internally.