Greater Valley YMCA

About Us

The Greater Valley YMCA is a volunteer-led, nonprofit, community organization. The Y is committed to strengthening community by positively changing lives every day. At each of our branches, we concentrate our efforts in three areas: Healthy Living, Youth Development, and Social Responsibility. And we do so in a way that upholds the Y’s traditional family values of Respect, Responsibility, Caring, and Honesty.

For over 100 years, the Y has made tangible differences in the communities of Allentown, Bethlehem, Catasauqua, Easton, Forks, Nazareth, those comprising the Slate Belt region and the Lehigh Valley as a whole. Founded as individual YMCAs as early as 1897, the following branches of the Greater Valley Y merged together between 2010 and 2015: the Nazareth YMCA, the Suburban North Family YMCA, the Family YMCA of Easton, Phillipsburg & Vicinity and the Bethlehem YMCA. In 2014, the Forks YMCA Education Center was established. The Slate Belt branch was opened in 2015. In January 2017, the Allentown YMCA joined the Greater Valley YMCA.

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BRING JOY, SPREAD CHEER, COMMUNITY
TREE OF GIVING
Please pick an ornament from the tree in our lobby and buy a gift for an individual as if they were your own family member. The gift should be wrapped or unwrapped and ready to be picked up by the week of December 10th, so we can distribute the gifts. Your generosity will be greatly appreciated. Please return the ornament tag when you return the gift on the outside of the package. You do not need to purchase every item on the wish list. Your continued support to those in need is greatly appreciated!