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The Boys & Girls Clubs of Lanier’s new Buford Club hosted a family event to celebrate the grand opening of their new club in Buford located at the First Baptist Church of Buford.
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Lanier announced its capital campaign Thursday to improve the club building at Positive Place and build a new gym at the Joseph F. Walters Club off Memorial Park Drive in Gainesville.
The $25K was from proceeds made in the 2022 Pirates of Lanier Charity Poker Run
$750,000 grant could bring gym to Boys and Girls Clubs of Lanier A sketch of the gymnasium the Boys and Girls Clubs of Lanier intend to build. Provided by Hall County A $750,000 community development block grant could help the Boys and Girls Clubs of Lanier build a gymnasium that would serve kids from kindergarten through middle school. The application for the Georgia Department of Community Affairs grant came before the Hall County Board of Commissioners’ work session Monday, Jan. 25. The plan is for a roughly 6,100-square-foot multipurpose gym tha...
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Lanier received a COVID-19 Response and Recovery Grant for over $39,000 to enhance their tutoring program by United Way of Greater Atlanta. "We identified that there was such a learning loss with our kids being out of school during the pandemic, between March and September that we really needed to beef up our tutoring services," said Steven Mickens, CEO for BGCL. The tutoring programs were increased after the pandemic hit because Mickens said they noticed students, elementary aged especially, struggling to keep up with virtual and remote learning. "That grant allow...