by Dominic Bills | Mar 10, 2015 | News |
At this time last year, I’d never heard of AmeriCorps. I was a BYU student studying sociology and happily working on campus. Honestly, at this time last year I didn’t know there were Boys & Girls Clubs in Utah, let alone here in Provo. In May, I was still on the...
by Dominic Bills | Feb 26, 2015 | News |
From indoor soccer, to volunteering, to looking at dinosaur fossils, the members of our South Franklin Teen Club have had some exciting opportunities lately! This is one of our growing sites, thanks, in part, to some of the great activities Club members have the...
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...
