APRIL: SPRING IS HERE

Dear Mid-Peninsula Boys & Girls Club Community, We sincerely hope that all of you are doing well during our “Shelter In Place.” While it is definitely not business as usual at MPBGC, we continue to provide support for our MPBGC kids and families in any way that we can. This month our MPBGC Youth Developers held our monthly All Hands meeting - virtually. We shared updates on our food distribution activities, distant learning, and our virtual club experience.

Like always, we continue modeling the MPBGC character traits: CARING, RESPONSIBLE, AND PRODUCTIVE.

MPBGC Food Distribution: Every Friday, we host food distribution at our San Mateo Dore Clubhouse and Daly City Bayshore School site. This is possible because of key partnerships with Second Harvest Food Bank and Nob Hill Foods Redwood Shores. Since our shelter in place began, we’ve distributed more than 60,000 lbs of food to more than 400 families.

Community Support: Thank you to our community supporters for donating hot meals and pantry staples to our food distribution efforts. This month, a generous donor gave 160 hot meals from La Fonda Cocina Mexicana for the MPBGC Dore Clubhouse families. The National Charity League, Skyline Chapter also contributed to the food distributions. When we take care of our community, we all succeed.

Virtual Learning and Check-Ins:  This month we have already checked in with 254 families. Our Teen Keystone Club met this month to review their Spring leadership programs and to help them with their remote school work.  We are excited to announce that we are launching our Virtual Club experience this upcoming week! We will virtually provide homework hour, STEM programs, social-emotional learning programs, fitness time and of course, FUN FRIDAYS! Stay tuned in the next newsletter for more details:  https://www.midpenbgc.org/virtual-club

2020 Census:  Census Day was April 1, 2020. Just like we mentioned last month, please stand up and be counted! Our staff and members are filling out the census. Will you? Take the census at https://my2020census.gov/

We all want to be together again soon. In the meantime, we are doing everything possible to enable our members to have the Great Futures they deserve.

Let's support our community together:

We have received an outpouring of support from members of our MPBGC community. To those that have donated, WE THANK YOU!  The need within our community remains great. Please consider giving what you can so we can continue to support our students and families during this unprecedented time. Your donation will enable us to:   (1) virtually support our MPBGC members  (2) distribute food to our communities weekly  (3) support the salaries of the dedicated MPBGC staff (4) purchase and deliver critical technology to those of our kids with the greatest need. Thank you for keeping the Mid-Peninsula Boys & Girls Club in mind when thinking of ways to give back to your community in these trying times. We hope you are staying safe, healthy and close to home.

With sincere gratitude,

Evan Jones Executive Director

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