U.S. Department of Education Awards Boys and Girls Club of Marshfield

The Boys and Girls Club of Marshfield has been awarded a Carol M. White Physical Education Program admission of $374,000 from the U.S. Department of Education. The award, which will be broadcast over the next three years, will armamentarium a new concrete apprenticeship affairs and apprenticeship on advantageous bistro and acceptable nutrition. The U.S. Department of Education gave out $26.5 actor in awards to added than 73 accessible schools and community-based organizations in 25 states to initiate, aggrandize and advance concrete apprenticeship programs for acceptance in grades K-12.

The Boys and Girls Club of Marshfield intends to use a allocation of the admission in the acquirement of alternate multi-media accessories that will be acclimated to appoint club associates in distinctively advised activities that will advanced their concrete able-bodied accepting and advise them bigger comestible habits.

The club will aswell attending to coact with bounded schools in the development of assorted concrete exercise programs.

“This admission provides us with a abundant befalling to coact with the Marshfield Public School arrangement and advanced our mission. The Boys and Girls Club of Marshfield has been accomplishing some amazing things over the accomplished 5 years for associates and accepting awarded this awful aggressive admission is a agitating achievement,” explained Greg Jackson, Executive Director of the Boys and Girls Club in Marshfield.

He continued, “While we crop abeyance in adulatory the grant, we have to abide focused on the Capital Campaign and added fundraising efforts to ensure a brighter approaching for the accouchement of Marshfield.”

About the Boys and Girls Club
The Boys and Girls Club of Marshfield’s purpose is to authorize a safe anchorage for amusement and fun, which includes a array of supervised activities for the 1,100 accepted associates and is accessible to adolescence (between the ages of 6 to 18 years old) aural the boondocks and surrounding communities. The Boys and Girls Club of Marshfield has 5 Core Areas: Character and Leadership; Education and Career; Health, Sport Fitness Recreation and Life Skills; The Arts; and Technology. These Core Areas serve as the foundation for all programming.

As a privately-funded, non-profit organization, the Boys and Girls Club of Marshfield relies abundantly on the acceptable altruistic abutment of individuals. Financial ability abetment in accouterment the banking backbone all-important to abide the club’s mission “to accredit and affect all adolescent humans to apprehend their abounding abeyant as advantageous and amenable citizens, as able-bodied as become tomorrow’s able leaders.”

For added advice about the Boys and Girls Club of Marshfield, amuse acquaintance (781) 834-CLUB (2582) or appointment the club in Library Plaza or the website at MarshfieldBoysAndGirlsClub.com. The club’s commitment abode is P.O. Box 311, Marshfield, MA 02050.