YMCA is nonprofit, in Childcare, eldercare, and senior living.
What it sells: after-school programmes, summer camps, swim lessons, senior fitness.
In the language of this map it serves 5 solutions — After-school programmes, Summer camps, Swimming lessons, Senior centres and clubs and Scouting and youth organisations — which between them relieve 7 human frictions.
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Human frictions it ultimately relieves
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- School ends hours before work does
- Children need hours that careers also need
- The world outside the home can kill a child
- Purpose and structure disappear with the job
- Friends and spouse begin to die
- Eat well on a fixed income, often alone
- Pass on identity, faith, and belonging before the child chooses its own