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Boys & Girls Clubs Show Appreciation

A signed photo montage of the members of the Boys & Girls Club of Lansing, Michigan, using their Build Up! kit." width="300" height="227" />

A signed photo montage of the members of the Boys & Girls Club of Lansing, Michigan, using their Build Up! kit.

Members of the Boys & Girls Club of Lansing, Michigan, and the Brentwood Boys & Girls Club of Raleigh, North Carolina recently sent AGC of America handwritten notes, thanking AGC and Shelco, Inc. for sponsoring a Build Up! educational resource for their clubs. According to Director Pepe Caudillo, the Brentwood club serves an average of 70 kids a day and has plans to complete every activity in the toolkit. “All of these kids are going to be benefited by using the Build! Up Kit,” he wrote. Brentwood club members, ranging in age from 9 to 13, also wrote individual letters to AGC. All the young people expressed excitement about using the kit. The Lansing club sent a signed photo montage of members using the kit, which was sponsored by AGC of Michigan. AGC is still receiving requests for Build Up! kits from clubs around the nation. Currently we have more than 300 outstanding requests. AGC of America is asking our chapters and members to sponsor kits for these deserving young people around the country. Please visit our interactive map to see if there’s a club in your area looking for kits. This map is updated weekly with new requests being added and fulfilled requests being deleted. Boys & Girls Clubs serve nearly 5 million youths from more than 4,000, primarily inner-city, clubhouses. Each kit costs $199 plus shipping and would be shipped directly to the requesting club or to your firm if you’d like to deliver the kit in person. Additionally, AGC will send to the club a letter telling the club the name of the sponsoring AGC member or chapter.