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American organization

**Boys & Girls Clubs of America**
The Boys and Girls Guild logo was designed by Saul Bass in 1978.
Formation	1860; 162 years ago (1860)
Type	Youth organization
Legal status	Non-profit arrangement
Purpose	"Society programs and services promote and raise the development of boys and girls past instilling a sense of competence, usefulness, belonging and influence."
Headquarters	Atlanta, Georgia
Region served	United states of america
Budget (2016)	$one.85 billion (revenue) $i.73 billion (expenses)^[1]
Website	bgca.org

Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) is a national arrangement of local chapters which provide voluntary after-school programs for young people. The organization, which holds a congressional charter nether Title 36 of the United States Code, has its headquarters in Atlanta, with regional offices in Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, New York City and Los Angeles.^[2] BGCA is tax-exempt and partially funded by the federal authorities.^[3]

History [edit]

The first Boys' Club was founded in 1860 in Hartford, Connecticut, by 3 women, Elizabeth Hamersley and sisters Mary and Alice Goodwin.^[4] In 1906, 53 independent Boys' Clubs came together in Boston to class a national organization, the Federated Boys' Clubs. In 1931, the arrangement renamed itself Boys' Clubs of America, and in 1990, to Boys & Girls Clubs of America. Equally of 2010, there are over iv,000 autonomous local clubs, which are affiliates of the national arrangement. In total these clubs serve more than four million boys and girls. Clubs tin be constitute in all 50 states equally well as locations in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and U.s.a. military machine bases. In total, Boys & Girls Clubs of America apply most 50,000 staff members.^[5]

The Chronicle of Philanthropy ranked Boys & Girls Clubs of America number one amid youth organizations for the 13th consecutive twelvemonth, and number 12 among all nonprofit organizations. The Boys & Girls Clubs of America is the official charity of Major League Baseball.^{[half dozen]} Denzel Washington, a former club member, has been the spokesperson for Boys & Girls Clubs of America since 1993.^{[ citation needed ]}

Lists of founders [edit]

Boys Clubs of America, 1940 [edit]

These people came together in 1940 to create the Boys Clubs of America:^[vii]

Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States
William E. Hall, U.s.a. Medal of Honor recipient
Albert L. Cole, CEO of Reader's Digest
James A. Farley, United states of america Postmaster General
Albert C. Wedemeyer United states Army Chief of Plans and Operations
Matthew Woll, vice president of the AFL-CIO
Jeremiah Milbank Jr., two-time Republican Political party Finance Committee chairman
Stanley Resor, Secretary of the Ground forces
James B. Carey, president of AFL-CIO
J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Lewis L. Strauss, chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Committee
Robert Eastward. Wood, quartermaster general of the army, vice-president of Sears
Fred C. Church Jr., insurance businessman
H. Bruce Palmer, president of the Mutual Do good Life Insurance Company
Edgar A. Guest, TV and radio host
Nicholas H. Noyes, Indianapolis, Indiana; oil mogul
George A. Scott, president, Walker-Scott Company
E. E. Fogelson, Army colonel and cattle and oil baron
Ernest Ingold of San Francisco, California
Jesse Draper of Atlanta, Georgia
Julius J. Epstein
John Albert

Boys & Girls Clubs of America, 1990 [edit]

In 1990, Boys Clubs of America was succeeded by Boys & Girls Clubs of America, which was founded by the following people:

Gerald W. Blakeley, Jr., Boston, Massachusetts
Roscoe Brown, Bronx, New York Urban center, New York
Cees Bruynes, Stamford, Connecticut
Arnold I. Burns, New York, New York
John L. Burns, Greenwich, Connecticut; President of the Boys' Clubs of America (1968–81), Chairman (1981–88)^[8]
Hays Clark, Hobe Sound, Florida
Mrs. Albert Fifty. Cole, Hobe Audio, Florida
Mike Adjourn, Burbank, California
Robert W. Fowler, Atlantic Beach, Florida
Thomas G. Garth, New York, New York
Moore Gates, Jr., Princeton, New Bailiwick of jersey
Ronald J. Gidwitz, Chicago, Illinois
John S. Griswold, Greenwich, Connecticut
Claude H. Grizzard, Atlanta, Georgia
George V. Grune, Pleasantville, New York
Peter L. Haynes, New York, New York
James S. Kemper, Northbrook, Illinois
Plato Malozemoff, New York, New York
Edmund O. Martin, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Donald Eastward. McNicol, New York, New York
Carolyn P. Milbank, Greenwich, Connecticut
Jeremiah Milbank, New York, New York
C. W. Murchison III, Dallas, Texas
Due west. Clement Stone, Lake Woods, Illinois

Notable members [edit]

Some notable members of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America:^[9]

Ashanti
General Wesley Clark
Donnie Copeland
Misty Copeland
Lee Corso
John Paul DeJoria
John Duren
Anthony Ervin
Don Fisher
Edward Furlong
Republic of cuba Gooding Jr.
Natalie Gulbis
Blob Hogan
Evander Holyfield^[x]
Earvin "Magic" Johnson
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Dante Lauretta
Paul "Triple H" Levesque
Jennifer Lopez
Mario Lopez
Vince McMahon
Ne-Yo
Danny Neaverth
Edward James Olmos
Shaquille O'Neal
Sugar Ray Leonard
Joey Reynolds
Smokey Robinson
CC Sabathia
Adam Sandler
Martin Sheen
Usher
Courtney B. Vance
Denzel Washington
Kerry Washington
Shaun White
Katy Perry
Michael Vick

Donations received [edit]

Post-obit the success of the film Black Panther, in 2018 Disney donated $1million to Boys & Girls Clubs of America for the development of Stem programs in the United States.^[11] The donation was to be allocated to help abound the grouping'due south national STEM (Science, Applied science, Engineering and Mathematics) curriculum.^[11]

According to Mimi LeClair, president and CEO of Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago, it is very of import for young people to have a solid background in STEM to compete in the global economy.^[12]

References [edit]

^ "Boys & Girls Clubs of America". Forbes.
^ "Mad._Sq_AR_FINAL_reference.pdf" (PDF). Boys & Girls Clubs- Madison Square. March 17, 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on Oct 29, 2013. Retrieved Apr 29, 2014.
^ "Home - Madison Foursquare Boys & Girls Social club" (PDF). Madison Foursquare Boys & Girls Guild. March 17, 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 6, 2010. Retrieved April 19, 2014.
^ Kofi, Lomotey (2010). Encyclopedia of African-American Education. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 111. ISBN9781412940504.
^ Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Boys & Girls Club Leadership University. "COREv2: History of the Boys & Girls Club."
^ "MLB Community: Programs: Boys and Girls Clubs of America". MLB Advanced Media, L.P. June 19, 2012. Retrieved April nineteen, 2014.
^ "Title 36 -- Patriotic Societies and Observances". US Congress. May 11, 1994. Archived from the original on July 23, 2012. Retrieved April 19, 2014 – via resources.org.
^ "John L. Burns, 87, Former Head of Boys Lodge", The New York Times , retrieved September i, 2015
^ Great Futures First Hither. (n.d.). Retrieved June 3, 2013, from "Archived copy". Archived from the original on November 24, 2011. Retrieved Nov 14, 2011. {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy equally title (link)
^ "Evander Holyfield". Alumni Hall of Fame. Boys & Girls Social club of America. Archived from the original on December 30, 2014. Retrieved March 17, 2015.
^ ^a ^b Gibbs, Alexandra (February 27, 2018). "In honor of 'Black Panther' success, Disney donates $i million to Boys & Girls Clubs of America for development of STEM plan". CNBC. Retrieved February 28, 2018.
^ "Solid Stalk background is important for youth to compete in the global economic system". ABC7 Chicago. February 26, 2018. Retrieved February 28, 2018.

External links [edit]

Official website
Official history (Archived)

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