September 18, 2008

Coming From America

YMCA sends managers abroad to learn more about immigrants at home

By Sandy Asirvatham

Richard D. Reigner stood in the gymnasium of Highland Elementary School, in the Chicago suburb of Elgin, Ill., before an audience of only seven people, trying to sell them on the benefits of YMCA services. And they were not impressed.

As president of the Greater Elgin Area YMCA, Mr. Reigner was starting a United Way-sponsored effort to improve parental involvement in this school of 550 students. Elgin had seen its Spanish-speaking population grow from negligible to 40 percent from

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