Author: Sarah Durham

  • Washington Moves Campaign Benefiting Local Charities Going on Now!

    Washington Moves Campaign Benefiting Local Charities Going on Now!

     

    Being active every day is one of the best things you can do for your health, and now it’s a great way for Washington residents to make a positive impact. For every Active Day you earn on EveryMove, our sponsors Premera Blue Cross, LifeWise Health Plan of Washington and Vivacity will donate up to $1 to charity during the Washington Moves challenge. The challenge runs from September 30th – October 27th. Washington residents can choose one of five charities including Puget Sound American Heart Association, Washington American Diabetes Association, Boys & Girls Clubs of Washington, YMCA of Spokane County, and United Way of Spokane County.

  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Whatcom County Hires New CEO

    Boys & Girls Clubs of Whatcom County Hires New CEO

     

    The Boys & Girls Clubs of Whatcom County has hired a new CEO – more than a year after the former CEO left for a job in California.  Heather Powell’s first day on the job in Whatcom County will be Nov. 5.  She is now the CEO of Boys & Girls Club of Door County in Sturgeon Bay, Wis., which she has led for nearly three years.

  • Pioneering Greenwood Club Reclaims its Early Creative Spark

    Pioneering Greenwood Club Reclaims its Early Creative Spark

    The North Seattle Boys & Girls Club celebrates its 70th anniversary with the spirit that led to its creation as the first such club in King County. The club in Greenwood where the King County Boys & Girls Clubs began is making a comeback owing to the kind of creative thinking that got it going during World War II.

  • BGCA & Charles Schwab Foundation Name Austin McHenry of Seattle the 2013 National Money Matters Ambassador

    Boys & Girls Club teen Austin McHenry of Seattle has been named the sixth annual National Ambassador for the Money Matters: Make it Count(SM) program, sponsored by Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) and Charles Schwab Foundation. The National Ambassador serves as spokesperson for the program and is charged with promoting financial education as the basis for lifelong financial health and well-being to teens across the country.

  • ‘I don’t know how I got through … without Christopher’

    ‘I don’t know how I got through … without Christopher’

     

    Karlee Cossette has twice taken the lectern with a speech that includes an “aha!” moment that seized her audience and required no exaggeration . . . “All five of the speeches were impressive, but hers was memorable because she was calm, confident and extremely articulate,” said Sam Bovard, a Key Bank vice president in Olympia. “Her story was compelling, and it was one I hadn’t heard before from a Youth of the Year candidate.1

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    2012 Youth of the Year