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Mentor Gave Me Confidence to Succeed

By Denzel Washington Special to CNN

 

(CNN) -- I remember when I was 10 or 11 years old, our Boys and Girls Club director, Billy Thomas, displayed school pennants sent to him by former club members who had gone off to college. I looked up at all those...

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Denzel
Denzel Washington shares a moment with Boys & Girls Clubs members

  
OCT 2010
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Ranking among all youth organizations in the Chronicle of Philanthropy's "Philanthropy 400" report.
  
57
percentage of Club alumni who say the Club
"saved my life."

86
cents out of of every dollar goes directly to the kids.
 
250
 cost (in dollars) to keep a kid out of trouble and in the Boys & Girls Club
for one year.
 
70,014
Cost (in dollars) to keep a young adult in prison
for one year.
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My Somebody - by Darrell Royal
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"I've often wondered what might have become of me if Coach Wild hadn't taken the time to write a homesick boy and point him back home." -Darrell Royal  

 

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Read Boys & Girls Clubs of America's position paper about the high school dropout crisis, Our Nation's Dropout Crisis is Everyone's Problem.
 
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