Driving to Achieve

The Walt Gutowski, Sr. YMCA Golf Outing

Thank you to Acrisure Benefits Group for being our 2022 Title Sponsor!
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Driving to Achieve is a golf outing hosted by the Y to raise charitable funds for teen leadership programs of

all types which guide teens toward success in middle school, high school, college, and the workforce by developing the skills that help our future neighborhoods and businesses thrive.

Event Details

2023 event details coming soon!

Your participation in this exciting event includes a breakfast upon arrival, a brief program to help you get your day on the green started promptly, food stations on the course to satisfy your appetite, games, and a great conversation with your team. We look forward to sharing with you all the great things about our teen programming via your inbox and the tee box. 

Our Teen Leadership Programming

Teen Learning Academy

Summer Teen Learning Academy

The Summer Teen Learning Academy program is an exciting and unique experience designed to decrease the effects of summer learning loss and prepare high schoolers for success in school, higher education, and prosperous careers.

Youth participating will cultivate the values, skills and relationships that lead to positive behaviors, better health and educational achievement. Students in our program explore career paths and post-secondary options through workplace tours, guest speakers, and project-based learning. The program is organized into multiple components, each focusing on building different skills.

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Impact Program

Visser Impact Program

Teens explore talents and interests while gaining leadership skills and confidence in a safe, nurturing atmosphere through homework help, physical activity, volunteer activities, community service projects, and mentoring with Visser Family YMCA families.

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Leaders In Training (LIT)

Leaders In Training (LIT)

The LIT program allow teen campers to explore their leadership skills while developing good character qualities, participating in service learning and enjoying camp activities. This two-week program focuses on developing leadership skills during the first week as a group. The second week, the LITs will participate in a South Manitou Island backpacking trip. This program is a must to become a Counselor-in-Training or Junior Counselor.

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Youth in Government

Youth in Government

Students learn YMCA core values, while also navigating the world of politics (local, state, national, and international) with peers.

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Thank you to our 2022 Sponsors!

Platinum Sponsors

Van Andel

Gold Sponsors

Erhardt Construction
Mercantile Bank
Varnum, LLP

Silver Sponsors

Grand Rapids Gold
Life Fitness
Litehouse Foods
Wolverine Building Group

Scorecard Sponsors

Charles & Julie Frayer 

Tee Sponsors

Assist 2 Sell Realty
Advantage Mechanical-Refrigeration

Beverage Cart Sponsors

SpartanNash

Bronze Sponsors

Athletico Physical Therapy
Feyen Zylstra
First United Credit Union
Founders Brewing Company
Huntington Bank
KeyBank
Pure Architects
Rockford Construction
Swift Printing
UFP Industries
University of Michigan Health – West

Foursome

Assist 2 Sell Realty
Blue Cross Blue Shield
Central Michigan Paper
Edify North
EV Construction
First National Bank
H&S Companies
Independent Bank
Key Bank
Lake Michigan Credit Union
Lighthouse, An Alera Group Co.
Maple Hill Golf
Matrix Fitness
Pondera Advisors
Precor/Peloton
Progressive AE
West Michigan Whitecaps

Thank you to our 2022 Planning Committee:

Mike Verhulst
Harold Burrell

Curt Mulder

Nolan Gottschalk

Mike Wooldridge

Chad Morrow

David Kistler