The proceeds from 2009 Santa Speedo Run will be donated to Crossroads for Kids and Bottom Line. Learn more about them below and on their respective websites.
Our Mission: Crossroads for Kids is dedicated to creating a safe and caring community where young people from at-risk environments discover a sense of belonging and a passion for life. With our summer camp programs as the starting point, we provide life-changing experiences and year-round support that builds trust and healthy relationships kids can count on throughout their childhood, teenage years and beyond. Our intentional programs and community partnerships open doors to new resources and opportunities that inspire and empower young people to fulfill their unique potential.
About Us: Crossroads for Kids has been unlocking opportunities for at-risk Boston area youth to transform their lives for 75 years. Our experienced and dedicated staff counsels, nurtures, and builds critical relationships through immersive year-round and summer camp programs giving youth valuable life skills and a consistently safe place to turn regardless of their individual situation. Serving over 1000 Boston area youth each year, Crossroads for Kids immerses children ages 7-17 in a safe, supportive community, preparing them to meet life’s challenges as they learn, grow, and discover their own unique potential. Participants in our programs are less likely to succumb to the pressure of negative influences in their environments. They are more likely to overcome challenges, discover self confidence, graduate from high school, seek higher education, and fill positive roles in our society as adults, parents, and professionals. Go to www.crossroads4kids.org to learn more.
Our Mission: Bottom Line was founded in 1997 to improve our community by helping disadvantaged youth get in to college, graduate from college, and go far in life. Since then, we have helped thousands of students improve their lives and build stronger communities as role models, leaders, parents and friends.
About Us: Bottom Line was started by Dave Borgal, a former high school guidance counselor. As a counselor for primarily low income students, Dave met students who wanted to go to college, but didn't know where to start. They came from families that knew very little about college or saw it as something they could never afford. They went to schools where teachers and guidance counselors were overwhelmed. And they lived in communities where college was the exception, not the rule. He helped students get in to college, but even the students who made it there were dropping out and not graduating. Dave realized that getting in to college was important, but graduating was the Bottom Line.
With an idea to create a community-based organization that could help students at the beginning of the college application process and continue to support them until they earned a degree, he came to Boston. In 1997, he worked with his first class of 25 high school seniors. In a time when very few urban students were going to college and as few as 1 in 7 low-income students who started college would ever finish, he helped all 25 students get accepted to at least one college and 80% graduated in six years or less. We have maintained that level of success ever since. Go to www.bottomline.org to learn more.