The YMCA does not exclude people who want to participate in programs, but who cannot pay full price.

This campaign is also to educate the community that this is here. People who may not think they can afford to participate (in the YMCA's activities) can because of this campaign.

We patterned our program after Minnesota's. They have 800 to 1,000 kids in it. Last year, Iowa had about 75 participants - about 10 from Waukee.

We'd love to get to a place where we're raising as much as we're giving out.

It's a great college resume builder, too, I'd imagine.

Readers want to see, hear, feel, smell the action of your story, even if that action is just two people having a quiet conversation.