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Best Buy Teen Tech Center Coming to Herbert Hoover Club
Best Buy Partners with Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis to Open New Best Buy Teen Tech Center in St. Louis New youth support center is first in St. Louis, 17th nationwide Best Buy and Clubhouse Network have chosen the BGCSTL Herbert Hoover Club as it newest Teen Tech center location. Construction is currently underway to provide Club members, ages 12-18 an 1,100 square foot space that will provide a creative, safe, and free out-of-school learning environment where young people work...
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis Breaks Ground on a $12.4 million Teen Center of Excellence in Ferguson, MO
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis broke ground today on a $12.4 M Teen Center of Excellence in Ferguson, Missouri. Today, the community came together to witness the ground breaking which will offer afterschool and summer programs to teens and youth (ages 12-18) in the North County area. Expected completion date is 2019/20 school year. “Building a Boys & Girls Club in the Ferguson area will produce positive outcomes in a community that has been subsumed with difficult...
New Playground at Riverview Gardens Club
200 Community Volunteers Unite to Build a New Playground at BGCSTL Riverview Gardens Club The Pacific Life Foundation, Edward Jones and KaBOOM! Put Kids First by Increasing Opportunities to Play On Saturday, Aug. 18, volunteers from the Pacific Life Foundation, Edward Jones, Riverview Gardens School District, the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis and the community joined KaBOOM! to transform an empty site into a kid-designed, state-of-the-art playground, two shade sheds, picnic...
BGCSTL Honors Alumni, Volunteers, Board & Staff
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis is proud to announce the 2018 Annual Recognition event honorees and Alumni Hall of Honor inductees! Each year the staff, board members, volunteers and supporters are acknowledged and celebrated for their commitment to our Club children. The Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis Alumni Hall of Honor inductees are Rolando Barry, Founding Director at MO High Steppers Drill Team; Brittany Dodson, Assistant Women’s Basketball Coach at Morgan...
BGCSTL Welcomes New Board Members
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST. LOUIS WELCOMES NEW BOARD MEMBERS St. Louis, MO, February 2018 – Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis welcomes new board members Lon Dircks, Crystal Gale, Chonda Nwamu and Leah Reynolds Harris. Lon Dircks, Jr. is the Market Sales Manager/First Vice President for Merrill Lynch/Bank of America. Crystal Gale, Ed.D is the Director of Performance Management for the Saint Louis Public Schools. In her new role she provides ongoing oversight and support to...
Great Futures Moments – 1st Quarter News
View in browser Link to Forward To A Friend BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST. LOUIS GREAT FUTURES MOMENTS 1st Quarter News 2018 Academic Success | Good Character & Citizenship | Healthy Lifestyles Message from our President, Dr. Flint Fowler: As I reflect on 2017, I first want to express our appreciation to the donors, community partners, volunteers and families for your partnership. We aspire to be the most trusted name in youth development and make a greater impact on our regions...
Michaelmonique Mayo Wins Youth of the Year, $5,000 Scholarship & A NEW CAR
YOUTH OF THE YEAR WINNER ANNOUNCED AT BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST. LOUIS GREAT FUTURES GALA Michaelmonique Mayo Wins Youth of the Year, $5,000 Scholarship & A NEW CAR Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis (BGCSTL) is proud to announce the 2018 Youth of the Year winner Michaelmonique Mayo! Being named Youth of the Year is the highest honor a Boys & Girls Club member can receive. The award is Boys & Girls Clubs signature youth recognition program that celebrates the...
2018 Youth of the Year Candidates
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis is proud to announce our 2018 Youth of the Year Candidates Meet our 2018 Youth of the Year (YOY) candidates! Fourteen teens are being recognized for demonstrating outstanding leadership in their schools, communities, and Clubs. But only one will be awarded with the highest honor -- Youth of the Year for Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis. Over the past few months, the journey for these teens has included professional development sessions...
Jayson Tatum Visits BGCSTL Hurricane Relief Project Winners
NBA Star, Boston Celtic, Jayson Tatum Visits Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis to Reward Members for Hurricane Relief Efforts In mid-September, St. Louisan & Boston Celtic Jayson Tatum partnered with members of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis to launch an effort to see which Club could collect the most donations in order to provide hurricane relief to the Boys & Girls Clubs in Houston and Florida who were impacted by recent hurricanes. On Saturday, October 7,...
Jayson Tatum Partners with BGCSTL on Hurricane Relief Project
St. Louisan & Boston Celtic Jayson Tatum is partnering with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis to provide hurricane relief to the Boys & Girls Clubs in Houston and Florida that were affected by recent hurricanes. Members from all ten Clubs have launched a challenge to collect the most supplies that will be directly delivered to the young people who...
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST. LOUIS WELCOMES NEW BOARD MEMBERS
St. Louis, MO, August 2017 – Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis welcomes new board members Michele Sowers – Husch Blackwell and Clive Grannum. Michele Sowers is a partner at Husch Blackwell and concentrates her practice on product liability and general business litigation in the firm’s Technology, Manufacturing & Transportation team. She has extensive experience working with manufacturing companies in the transportation industry — from the car dealerships her family owns in the...
Robert “Bob” Fulstone is 2017 Richard H. Amberg Award
Robert “Bob” Fulstone Receives Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis 2017 Richard H. Amberg Award The Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis is proud to announce Robert “Bob” Fulstone, who has served as a dedicated board member and volunteer for over 25 years, as the 2017 Richard H. Amberg Awardee! The Richard H. Amberg Award is presented to a Board member whose leadership and commitment has a profound impact on the Club’s ability to achieve its mission. During Bob’s award...
2017 Boys & Girls Club Alumni Hall of Honor Inductees
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis is proud to announce its 2017 Alumni Hall of Honor Inductees! During the 2017 Annual Recognition event, where staff, board members, volunteers and other supporters are acknowledged and celebrated for their commitment to our Club children, Jerome Tomlin, Grace Conner, Lorenzo Baylor Sr., Susan Jones, Byron Price & Jordan “Shorty da Prince” Johnson were inducted into the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis Alumni Hall of Honor. The Hall...
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Great Futures Moments – 2nd Quarter News
View in browser Link to Forward To A Friend BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST. LOUIS GREAT FUTURES MOMENTS 2nd Quarter News 2017 Academic Success | Good Character & Citizenship | Healthy Lifestyles Meet Jamar. When Jamar became a member of the Boys & Girls Club three years ago, he was quiet, reserved, shy and uncomfortable – just as any kid would be in a new environment. It has taken him awhile to come out of his shell but once he did, he would...