2018 Annual Report
Boys & Girls Clubs of Skagit County
Boys & Girls Clubs of Skagit County
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Brian Gustafson (East Area Director, BGCSC) poses in front of the Concrete Boys & Girls Club with Kassandra Harrison (Academic Coach, BGCSC),<br />
and Cheryl Weston (Assistant Site Coordinator, BGCSC)<br />
NEW CLUBS IN CONCRETE<br />
SEE STRONG ATTENDANCE<br />
In January 2017, Club leadership responded to a phone<br />
request from staff at United General District #304 and<br />
the Concrete School District to meet with them about the<br />
potential for expanding<br />
services to youth and teens<br />
in eastern Skagit County. The<br />
Boys & Girls Clubs of Skagit<br />
County works at the pleasure<br />
of the community, and so it<br />
was easy to make the time<br />
and sit down to discuss any<br />
and all possibilities for reaching<br />
new families who would<br />
benefit from Club programs<br />
and activities.<br />
Already each year, difficult<br />
decisions must be made in regards to budgeting and sustaining<br />
Club operations in current communities. That is<br />
where the organizational focus is held, but the culture of<br />
the Boys & Girls Clubs of Skagit County also embraces new<br />
Most great projects and accomplishments<br />
have commonalities: A champion or<br />
champions from a local community who<br />
personally understands both the challenges<br />
and possibilities, a focused desired outcome,<br />
and a full willingness to leave ego and pride<br />
outside of discussions and negotiations.<br />
challenges with an eye for innovative strategies for execution.<br />
In this first meeting, it was clear that a need existed for<br />
Club services, perhaps more so than any other community<br />
currently engaged, but also<br />
that the limited resources<br />
of the eastern Skagit County<br />
made a traditional operating<br />
model outside the realm of<br />
likely success.<br />
Most great projects and<br />
accomplishments have<br />
commonalities: A champion<br />
or champions from a local<br />
community who personally<br />
understands both the challenges<br />
and possibilities, a<br />
focused desired outcome,<br />
and a full willingness to leave ego and pride outside of discussions<br />
and negotiations. Throughout the evolution of what<br />
would become realized as the Concrete Boys & Girls Club,<br />
opened on Monday, October 1, <strong>2018</strong>, this was fully present.<br />
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