The mission of the Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence is to enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.

Description:
The Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence provides before and after school programming to over 1,200 children per day at 10 sites across Lawrence. Our five core areas of programming are character and leadership, health and life skills, education and career exploration, recreation, and the arts.

History:
Bobby E. Lee and Bob Wells had hoped to open a program to keep disadvantaged youth out of trouble and enable them to make the passage to productive adult citizenship. In 1972, with the Lawrence Jaycees, their dream became a reality as the Boys Club of Lawrence was chartered into membership and first opened its doors.

In 1987, the Boys Club of Lawrence became the first in Kansas to allow girls to become members. The Boys Club of Lawrence officially became the Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence.

In 1999, a second Club opened, the Boys & Girls Club of Cordley, located at Cordley Elementary school. In 2000 the Boys & Girls Club opened another 6 satellite Clubs also located within Elementary schools (Kennedy, New York, Woodlawn, Pinckney, Deerfield, and Langston Hughes). At this time, the Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence was operating 8 before and after-school program sites.

Contact people:

Zachary Hall, Volunteer Coordinator, (785) 841-5672, (email) Kenton Holder, Assistant Director Of Operations, (785) 218-8770, (email) Monica Dittmer, Director Of Operations, (785) 550-5229, (email)

Address:

PO Box 748 Lawrence, KS 66044

Web Site: http://www.bgclk.org

Last updated on February 27, 2013