Andy Calhoun spent his entire career at the Charlotte YMCA. He started as an assistant youth director in 1972 and retired as CEO in 2016. During that time, he helped manage an era of rapid growth of the Charlotte YMCA, which paralleled the tremendous population growth in the city and county. In addition to opening and expanding YMCA facilities, he had to confront growing inequalities between "have" and "have not" YMCAs as suburbs boomed and center-city communities fell on hard times. He discusses the challenges of promoting equality without adopting a "charity" mentality, and the process of building the Stratford-Richardson branch in a low-income, historically Black neighborhood on West Boulevard.