BGCSM Summer Sports League Meals Program
2021

Overview
The Vera and Joseph Dresner Foundation has awarded Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern Michigan with a $225,000 grant to provide healthy snacks and meals for summer sports league youth participants and program staff.

Details
Since March 2020 there has been a sharp increase in the number of youth who have experienced food insecurity. Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern Michigan will provide a healthy breakfast, lunch, dinner, and two snacks for its most vulnerable youth in its summer sports league and program staff. Additionally, Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern Michigan is working with neighborhood-based catering companies, owned and staffed by women and people of color, to bolster local, small businesses.

Learn more about Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern Michigan.