Boys & Girls Clubs Honored at National Conference

Angelina Cacioppo, Michelle Edwards, Elise Bulger, and Jennifer Weiss of Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Sonoma County received the prestigious Merit Award for Overall Program Excellence from Jim Clark, President, Boys & Girls Clubs of America. The award was recently presented during Boys & Girls Clubs of America’s 110th National Conference in New Orleans and is for the organizations programming at their Cali Calmecac Club in Windsor. Merit Awards for Program Excellence, are sponsored by MetLife Foundation and presented annually for outstanding programs developed and implemented to lead youth to great futures at Boys & Girls Clubs across the country. Each honoree also receives a $2,500 award. Each year, hundreds of entries are submitted in the five core program areas: character and leadership development; education and career development; health and life skills; the arts; and sports, fitness and recreation.

“We are humbled and honored to be one of two organizations, out of 4,000 organizations nation-wide, to be selected for the Overall Program Excellence Award, but we are even more proud of the impact that we have on the thousands of Sonoma County young people we serve every day.” – Jennifer Weiss, Chief Executive Officer, Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Sonoma County.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Sonoma County, which serves 6,000 youth each year from Cloverdale to Rohnert Park, has been recognized at the national conference several times in the recent past. In 2015 the organization received and Honor Award for Overall Program Participation and Attendance at its Cloverdale Clubhouse location. In 2014, the organization received a total of three Honor and Merit awards for Overall Program, Innovation in Safety, and Character & Leadership Development.

For more information, please visit bgccsc.org or contact Michael Irvine at mirvine@bgccsc.org or (707) 528-7977.