by Dominic Bills | Feb 24, 2015 | News |
How do you stack up where financial literacy is concerned? How do your children? The FINRA Foundation’s 2012 State-by-State Financial Capability Survey revealed that: 41% of Americans surveyed reported spending less than their income. 26% reported having unpaid...
by Dominic Bills | Feb 3, 2015 | News |
“What did [they] lack though? … They lacked something that could have been given to them if we’d only know they needed it: a community around them that prepared them properly for the world.” – Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers. How many young people around us lack proper...
by Dominic Bills | Jan 29, 2015 | News |
On Tuesday, I had chance to visit the Franklin Elementary site. Students there were engaged in several different activities and classes. This is a fun program that offers a variety of options to keep students engaged after school. At this site students sign up for...
by Dominic Bills | Jan 27, 2015 | News |
According to a report done by the Afterschool Alliance each year’s class of high school dropouts will cost the country more than $200 billion in lost earnings and unrealized tax revenue over the course of their lives. These high school dropouts earn 24 percent less...
by Dominic Bills | Dec 30, 2014 | News |
I state it in almost every blog post I write here, because our mission is central to everything we do. The mission of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Utah County is to inspire and enable all young people to realize their full potential as productive and responsible...