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Yahoo
28-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Keeping kids fed through the summer
Rapid City, S.D. (KELO) -The Summer Meal Program at the Club for Boys kicked off today in Rapid City. Over the summer, it will provide free breakfast and lunch to kids 18 and under. Thanks to a grant from the Black Hills Area Community Foundation, parents who come with their kids also receive a free meal this summer for the first time. 'If a parent doesn't want to bring their kids down for lunch, then sometimes those kids aren't going to eat. Hopefully, having that free meal is an incentive for parents to bring their kids to the site. So by providing that to have their kids eat and the parents eat so we're fulfilling a family need, not just the child's needs,' Assistant Executive Director Mark Kline said. A few boys also work in the kitchen over the summer to learn new job skills, and many other boys sign up to volunteer and help in the cafeteria. 'I will be washing dishes, making sure it's all clean for the kids to use and then every once in a while I'll help serve dishes for them. I have fun while working here, and it makes me happy to see the kids are happy with the food they get to eat,' 2024 Boy of the Year Marrik Foster said. These free meals can help with the food insecurity some families are experiencing. 'Having a place like the Club for Boys that are feeding anyone in the community, free lunch or breakfast, helps to make sure those kids get proper nutrition as well as get them through the day. We can't feed all meals during the day, but hopefully by feeding breakfast and lunch, then the parents after they get off work can feed their kids at night,' Kline said. 'The Club for Boys is a great place for everyone, because everyone is included. Everyone has fun and enjoys it, I know I do,' Foster said. The Summer Meal Program will offer breakfast and lunch, Monday through Friday, until August 8th. Club memberships are also available for only $12, where boys ages 6-17 get to partake in all the club has to offer for a whole year. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Rapid City-based foundations partner to support nonprofits that have lost federal funding
A May 2023 aerial view of Rapid City, looking north from downtown. (Seth Tupper/South Dakota Searchlight) Two foundations in South Dakota's Black Hills have announced a partnership to support local nonprofits 'facing disruptions due to shifts in federal priorities.' The Rapid City-based Black Hills Area Community Foundation and the John T. Vucurevich Foundation have launched a joint fund, the Sustaining Black Hills Nonprofits Fund, to offer short-term bridge funding. The partnership, also supported by the Bush Foundation in Minnesota, is designed to provide flexible support for nonprofits as they work through changes in their federal support, while encouraging additional community support for nonprofits. Read South Dakota Searchlight's coverage of Trump administration firings, funding freezes, spending cuts, grant cancellations, tariffs and immigration enforcement. Many nonprofits are experiencing funding reductions or eliminations since the Trump administration began making widespread cuts in government programs. Jacqui Dietrich, John T. Vucurevich Foundation president and CEO, said in a news release that 'nonprofits are under intense pressure, facing rising costs, increasing demand for their services, and declining federal support.' 'While philanthropy can't fill every gap, our community can stand together to help sustain critical services through this transition,' Dietrich said. Chris Huber, Black Hills Area Community Foundation president and CEO, said that without nonprofit services, 'our community's needs don't go away, they go unmet.' The partnership has already provided bridge funding to Seventh Circuit Court Appointed Special Advocates, which recently lost $15,000 after the federal government terminated grant awards to the National Court Appointed Special Advocates Association. The program advocates for children in the court system. Funding has also been provided to Feeding South Dakota and to Working Against Violence Inc., which assists survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX
