Oceanside, CA (July 2021)-Boys & Girls Clubs of Oceanside (BGCO) has received a $15,000 grant from the Oceanside Community Foundation to provide programming to youth on racial and social justice topics. Funding from the Oceanside Community Foundation will support the Club in implementing their Youth for Unity program, which also includes hosting Racial and Social Justice Youth Symposiums in the upcoming year.
BGCO’s Youth for Unity program provides youth with the groundwork that will help them better understand and appreciate diversity and combat prejudice, bigotry and discrimination. This amazing program provides a comprehensive, broad-based set of activities to help members appreciate themselves as unique individuals; understand the community’s diversity; recognize bias; and take personal leadership in confronting bias. Racial and Social Justice Youth Symposiums will tackle current issues and tough topics like “How to Be an Ally and Why It Matters,” and “Understanding the Black Lives Matter Movement.”
“We are tremendously grateful for Oceanside Community Foundation’s support,” said Jodi Diamond, CEO. “Our youth have witnessed shocking and traumatic events over the past year, including the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and others. We are at a pivotal moment in this country’s history and want our youth to have the tools they need to navigate these complicated issues. The goal of Youth for Unity is to help them process these events and empower them to use their voices to confront bias and discrimination in their community,” said Jodi Diamond, CEO.
For more information about the Boys & Girls Clubs of Oceanside please contact Rhonda Guaderrama at rguaderrama@bgcoceanside.org, call (760) 433-8920, and visit our website BGCOceanside.org or Facebook page at: www.facebook.com/BGCOside.
About Boys & Girls Clubs of Oceanside
Boys & Girls Clubs of Oceanside (BGCO) is a youth development organization that is dedicated to providing a safe, fun and enriching environment for youth to spend time during non-school hours.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Oceanside is a local, independent organization affiliated with Boys & Girls Clubs of America. BGCO raises 100% of the funds that support our life changing programs through individual giving, events and grants. 100% of those funds stay right here in North County to serve youth in our local communities.
We continue to uphold our mission: To inspire, develop and enrich young people to reach their fullest potential as confident, responsible, caring members of society.
About the Oceanside Community Foundation
We’ve partnered with The San Diego Foundation to create and sustain a local foundation to serve the community of Oceanside.
Our purpose is to meet emerging needs by encouraging and increasing responsible and effective philanthropy for all who live, work and play in Oceanside; build an Oceanside community endowment to provide funding annually to Oceanside organizations and causes; and give Oceanside community members a vehicle for legacy planning and gifts that will benefit Oceanside, now and forever.
