Philanthropist Mackenzie Scott has made a $6.8 million donation to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Northeast Ohio (BGCNEO), a gift representatives of the club say will kickstart the organization’s plan to double the number of children it serves in the area.
BGCNEO said the gift was unexpected and unsolicited. It’s a welcomed donation that will help the organization add more clubs and serve 20,000 kids by 2025.
He said the need to expand the Boys & Girls Club footprint is critical as the clubs provide after school programming to thousands of children in Northeast Ohio, a region with one of the nation’s highest rates of child poverty. “We are so thankful,” Jeff Scott said, who was asked follow-up questions by her team before the organization was awarded the gift.
Mackenzie Scott’s gift to the BGCNEO is part of a larger $281 million donation to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, according to Forbes.
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