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LEAP SUMMER CAMP will be in person at Thomas Jeffe

LEAP SUMMER CAMP will be in person at Thomas Jefferson Middle School and Lodi High School. Join us for a zoom information session at 6 PM on 5/13 for details. Use the link in our bio to go to our website and head to the LEAP program page to register for the info session. www.bgclbergen.org/leap

LODI RESIDENTS - Be sure to check out some of the

LODI RESIDENTS - Be sure to check out some of the upcoming activities our outstanding Lodi Police Department has going on in May. Nominate someone for Mother of the Year, Coffee with a Cop, Lodi Walks, and Rolling & Patrolling, their car seat installation and bicycle registration day! @lodi_police_departmentnj

Our kids have been very busy! Here are just a few

Our kids have been very busy! Here are just a few of of the happy faces we captured over the last week! It’s hard to tell, but those are smiles behind those masks!

Thank you to our amazing Board members who partici

Thank you to our amazing Board members who participated in our first virtual retreat on Saturday, March 27. We appreciate all they do for the BGCLBC and our kids. Thank you to BGCA for helping to facilitate the sessions for the meetings!

LEAP at Thomas Jefferson middle school, Lodi has o

LEAP at Thomas Jefferson middle school, Lodi has opening for the next virtual session, beginning on April 12, 2021. If you have a TJMS student who is not registered for LEAP, they are missing out! LEAP has programming and clubs for students who wish to try sewing, baking, design, STEMart and more! All supplies are provided by the program. Visit our website to register at www.bgclbergen.org/leap

Help us shout out the Girl Scouts, Brownie Troop 9

Help us shout out the Girl Scouts, Brownie Troop 97827 from River Edge! As part of their March community service project, this awesome group collected board games, art supplies, and work books to donate for our Club kids! The kids will enjoy these tremendously, and we are grateful! Thanks for all the good you do!

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! In honor of Saint Patri

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! In honor of Saint Patrick’s day, we’ve got leprechauns, four leaf clover‘s and rainbows! Just some of the creative and fun activities our Lodi Club kids have done this week!

Help us celebrate our clubs outstanding 2021 Youth

Help us celebrate our clubs outstanding 2021 Youth of the Year, Amanda Feliciano! Amanda was nominated by her peers, wrote essays, interviewed, and was selected by the judges for this highest Boys & Girls Club honor. Amanda will receive a scholarship and will be going on to the state competition where she will earn an additional scholarship and potentially be selected to go on to the regional and national competitions. Amanda is a senior at Bergen County Technical High School, where she maintains a 3.4 GPA in her advanced placement classes, while holding down a part-time job, volunteering at our club and her church, and serving as our Keystone Club Vice President! Amanda looks forward to studying biology and aspires to be a pediatrician. Congratulations Amanda!! #boysandgirlsclub #whateverittakes #greatfuturesstarthere #youthoftheyear

This week, staff from each of our sites, along wit

This week, staff from each of our sites, along with a partner from BGCA, participated in our annual staff training and teambuilding experience, which for the first time, was done virtually. A SPOT Analysis helped us identify organizational and staff strengths, potential problems, opportunities for growth and improvement, and potential threats. An interactive murder mystery team investigation was great fun and enabled us to use our critical thinking and decision making skills. Any opportunity for staff to share ideas, successes, failures, and grow as a team and as an organization, makes for an even stronger foundation to build great futures on, for the children who need us most! #whateverittakes #greatfutures

She believed she could and so she did! #internatio

She believed she could and so she did! #internationalwomensday #empoweringwomen #whateverittakes #boysandgirlsclub

#womenshistorymonth today and always, let us remem

#womenshistorymonth today and always, let us remember and honor the many influential women in history! #boysandgirlsclub #whateverittakes

Our Hackensack Club Kids are pictured with just on

Our Hackensack Club Kids are pictured with just one of the activities they did in honor of Black History Month. Throughout the month, our kids did activities and had discussions about some of the most influential people in black history. Here, students we’re coloring pictures of our Vice President, Kamala Harris, while discussing how history’s been made with her induction as the first African-American and first female Vice President. #blackhistorymonth #boysandgirlsclub

Our LEAP students are so talented in the kitchen!

Our LEAP students are so talented in the kitchen! Take a look at just some of the amazing treats they’ve made and presented over the last couple of months, as part of the virtual baking club! The best part is they made these things at home in their own kitchens. Most of these treats were made completely from scratch and most of the products used to make them were provided for free by our program! So, who’s hungry?

Valentine wishes from these little sweethearts!

Valentine wishes from these little sweethearts!

In celebration of Black History Month, Nieman Marc

In celebration of Black History Month, Nieman Marcus has extended their holiday fundraiser to benefit Boys & Girls Clubs. All Neiman Marcus stores will continue to fund raise for clubs throughout February! Shop the Paramus Nieman Marcus store to donate to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Lower Bergen County! Thank you Nieman Marcus for helping us provide Great Futures for the kids who need us most.

Congratulations to our 2021 King & Queen of Hearts

Congratulations to our 2021 King & Queen of Hearts, Natalie Gelin and Kurt Merkulov! Shout out to all of the candidates who truly did an outstanding job. We are beyond proud of each and everyone of them!

Kids at our Hackensack Club kicked off Black Histo

Kids at our Hackensack Club kicked off Black History Month by participating in a coloring contest. Check out their colorful works of art! How could you pick just one winner from this awesome bunch!

Thursday, February 11th, join us via Facebook Live

Thursday, February 11th, join us via Facebook Live for the 60th annual crowning of the Boys & Girls Club of Lodi & Thomas Jefferson Middle School’s 2021 King & Queen of Hearts!

What could be better than a STEM ice cream experim

What could be better than a STEM ice cream experiment!! Kids at our Lodi club worked their mind and sense of taste, by predicting how adding different food items to ice cream would affect the taste (salty, sour, bitter, etc.) they then samples each one and discussed their findings, including whether their predictions were correct, if they liked or disliked the taste, and other things they could possibly add which would have a similar affect.

Thank you again State Farm for the #sfneighborhood

Thank you again State Farm for the #sfneighborhoodassist grant to fund Feeding More Than Their Minds, our youth food distribution program! Special thanks to congressman Josh Gottheimer, Bergen County Sheriff Anthony Cureton, County Commissioner Tracy S. Zur, County Commissioner Mary J. Amoroso, County Commissioner Ramon M. Hache, Sr., County Commissioner Germaine M. Ortiz, mayor of Hackensack, John P. Lacrosse, and members of our Board of Directors, Mike Williams, President, Annekee Brahver-Keely, and Maritza Aleman, all of whom braved the cold-weather to help us accept this generous check!

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Club Spotlight

Amanda Feliciano
2021 Youth of the Year

About Amanda:
Keystone Financial Officer
Maintains a 3.4 GPA in AP Classes
Volunteers at the Club & Church
Aspires to be a Pediatrician