San Marcos, Calif. – Boys & Girls Club of San Marcos has received a $10,000 Neighborhood Grant from Rite Aid Healthy Futures to continue advancing its important mission focused on promoting the wellness, health, and success of school-aged youth in the San Marcos community.

Part of its overall Empowering Children signature initiative for Rite Aid Healthy Futures, the Neighborhood Grants help nonprofits address the toughest health and wellness challenges facing kids today.

Boys & Girls Club of San Marcos joins 370 other grassroots organizations who have each received a $10,000 grant for general operations. The funds will help them continue to deliver critical services as inflation, food insecurity, troubling mental health trends and other converging factors impact children.

Boys & Girls Club of San Marcos will use these funds to support the continued operation of after-school programming across its 14 sites and full day camps during school breaks and holidays. Programs connect youth with high-impact, educational learning programs, recreational activities that encourage healthy lifestyles, and social-emotional wellness services to youth who attend school in the San Marcos Unified School District and live in the surrounding communities.

“We are proud to have been selected as one of the many worthy recipients of a Rite Aid Healthy Futures Neighborhood grant,” said Cathy Baur, President & CEO of Boys & Girls Club of San Marcos. “These funds will help us promote equity in our community by giving each child and teen we serve the tools to lead successful lives.”

The grants are funded through the KidCents customer fundraising program, which allows Rite Aid customers to round up their purchases in-store and online to support children’s health and wellness.

By rounding up their nickels, dimes and quarters, millions of Rite Aid customers contribute to local charities restoring hope, resiliency and self-esteem in children.

“Children today face acute and converging crises across a range of fields that adversely impact their quality of life,” said Matt DeCamara, executive director of Rite Aid Healthy Futures. “Thanks to the generosity of Rite Aid customers, these hyperlocal organizations can continue to provide much needed programs and services steadying the course for children today and guiding them toward promising tomorrows.”

For a full list of recipient organizations, please click here.

About Rite Aid Healthy Futures
Rite Aid Healthy Futures is a public charity that improves the lives and futures of kids in Rite Aid communities through partnerships that help build healthier, more equitable neighborhoods. Launched by Rite Aid in 2001, Healthy Futures supports causes, initiatives and organizations that help kids live long, happy and healthy lives. Grants are made possible through the generous donations of customers who round-up their purchases at Rite Aid through the KidCents program. Visit RiteAidHealthyFutures.org to learn more.

About Boys & Girls Club of San Marcos

Boys & Girls Club of San Marcos (BGCSM) is a nonprofit youth development organization whose mission is to inspire and enable all young people to become productive, responsible and caring citizens. As part of a nationwide movement of Boys & Girls Clubs of America, BGCSM offers youth programs, developed and run by trained youth development professionals, that emphasize three priority outcome areas: academic success, good character and citizenship and healthy lifestyles. The organization, which first opened its doors in 1979 at Woodland Park, now serves more than 2,500 members, ages 6 to 18, annually at two standalone Clubhouses, ten school-based sites and two affordable housing communities throughout San Marcos. To learn more, please visit www.boysgirlsclubsm.org.

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Boys & Girls Club of San Marcos Media Contacts

Marisol Ortega

Communications & Marketing Coordinator

Boys & Girls Club of San Marcos

marisol@boysgirlsclubsm.org

(760) 534-0503

Lauren Garrido

Communications & Marketing Director

Boys & Girls Club of San Marcos

lauren@boysgirlsclubsm.org

(760) 539-3310

 Healthy Futures Media Contacts

Emelia Gabbert-Payne
Communications Specialist
Rite Aid Healthy Futures
Emelia.Gabbert-Payne@RiteAid.com
267-576-2460 (Text messages OK)

Andrew Staub
Communications Manager
Rite Aid Healthy Futures
Andrew.Staub@riteaid.com
717-649-2437 (Text messages OK)[EGP1] 

 [EGP1]Please feel free to include one or both of our contacts alongside your organization’s own media contact.