About Us Our Programs Community Resources Get Involved Donate PROJECT HOLIDAYS SUPPORT PROJECT HOLIDAYS Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula is thrilled to launch Project Holidays! Families in our community are facing unprecedented challenges. We are serving more students than ever before, and your support now will provide expanded access to our programs, when many of our students need it most: K-12 Holiday Sports Camps Our new winter holiday sports camps will keep students from kindergarten through twelfth grade motivated, healthy, and engaged while providing their families with childcare support when schools are out of session. Expanded Mental Health Programs The holidays can be a particularly difficult time for many of our BGCP families and the pandemic has brought into stark relief the need for additional mental health services for our students. Your support will allow our bilingual therapists to reach our students when they need it most. College Persistence Programs Research shows that nearly a third of college freshmen drop-out before their sophomore year. Many freshmen don’t return after the first semester. We want to do everything we can to help our BGCP college freshman to stay in college and to thrive there. With winter break socials, one-on-one support from our postsecondary advisers, and resume-building and career readiness workshops events, we will keep students engaged in their undergraduate education and prepared for summer internships. Thank you to our Project Holidays Committee: Kelly Bavor (Co-Chair), Chelsea Lynch (Co-Chair), Leila Al-Muhtasib, Bob Burlinson, Kristen Carlson, Kathleen Castaillac, Trina Currier, Patrick Gibbs, Burhan Haile, Christina Hall, Sean Mendy, Chris Mironov, John Pimentel, Linnea Roberts, LuLu Roberts, Sara Smirin, Tenley Stephenson, Victoria Thorp, Hilary Weisfeld, and Suzanne Yonkers. Looking for opportunities for you or your entire family to volunteer in-person during the holiday season? We have a number of volunteer opportunities available and would love for you to join us! $200 can provide a BGCP student two weeks of high-energy sports camp during the winter break to keep our kids engaged and to provide their families with much needed childcare support $500 can support 20 college students with winter break resume-building and career readiness workshops $1,000 can give 30 students therapy sessions with a bilingual BGCP therapist $2,500 can provide 60 hours of 1:1 college advising for BGCP college freshmen $5,000 can sponsor a week of holiday sports camp for 50 students $10,000 can support one of our mental health therapist’s work with 30 students for November and December GETTING MORE INVOLVED AS A #TEAMBGCP VOLUNTEER If your family would like to get more involved this holiday season with Thanksgiving meals at our clubhouses, Second Harvest Grocery Distribution, Project Silver Lining dried food drive, or Breakfast with Santa celebrations, please email Remi Sobomehin, Director of Major Gifts and Volunteerism. We believe the highest impact BGCP can deliver for our students this holiday season is allowing expanded access to our programming. We will be connecting our families with the following community partners to receive gifts for their families: SIGN UP TO STAY IN TOUCH! Sign up to get interesting news and updates delivered to your inbox. Email Address First Name Last Name Sign Up By submitting this form, you are granting: Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula, 401 Pierce Rd., Menlo Park, California, 94025, United States, http://www.bgcp.org permission to email you. You may unsubscribe via the link found at the bottom of every email. (See our Email Privacy Policy for details.) Emails are serviced by Constant Contact. ABOUT US Contact Us Privacy Policy Safety Policies Financials Report to Stakeholders