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Communal IMPACT of Boys & Girls Club of Green Bay
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The Boys & Girls Club of Green Bay places an emphasis on the relationship building that takes place with each child that enters the Club.
Currently, the Boys & Girls Club of Green Bay is focusing on its Project IMPACT (I’m Part of A Community Team). Behind this youth-driven initiative, Club teens address local poverty and homelessness issues in a variety of ways: preparing and serving meals, collecting coats and other apparel to be distributed to Club members and their families who currently live in homeless shelters and organizing fund raisers for disaster relief efforts. In addition to Project IMPACT, the Club offers dozens of other programs for improving the community and its members.
The Keystone Club, a teen leadership and service group, organizes annual clothing drives to distribute needed clothing to over 400 children each year. The Seal-A-Smile campaign was a program, using volunteer dental students, to put sealants on the teeth of dozens of Club members throughout the year. This past year, more than 600 of our community’s youth took the “I Can Achieve Pledge”; a pledge from Club members to do their best at the Lights On After School event that kicked off in 2005.
The need for the Boys & Girls Club, however, is greater than ever as membership continues to grow. From 2001 to 2005, membership increased from 4,094 members to an all-time high of 7,512. During this time, two Green Bay Clubhouses underwent renovations that doubled their capacity to adequately serve the community’s youth. Though costs for the building expansion were paid by a $6 million capital campaign raised through donations from the local community, the Boys & Girls Club must still raise $2 million annually to meet ongoing operating expenses. Even with resources strained to the limit, the Boys & Girls Club has been recognized for national program excellence awards three years running—evidence that the organization is successfully reaching the youth who have the greatest needs.
Behind the Boys & Girls Club of Green Bay, more than 28,000 nutritious meals were served to our community in 2005; the Club’s sports league enrolled more than 1,000 youths last year; and, this past spring, the Club awarded four Winners for Life scholarships of $2,000 to Club seniors who overcame adversity and hardships to attend college. For, as one teacher and Club mentor stated, “The Club teaches children how to work hard, be respectful and responsible, and, most of all, that they belong.” Just ask Tristan
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