P.U. Grad Students Award $10,000 to Boys & Girls Club

Graduate students from Princeton University have awarded the Boys & Girls Club of Trenton and Mercer County a $10,000 grant towards the implementation of social entrepreneurship with the Club’s new barber shop apprentice program.

Students of Princeton University’s Masters of Public Affairs program at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs received the opportunity to award a grant to a local non-profit of their choosing while enrolled in the course “Policy Issus and Analysis of Nonprofits, NGO’s and Philanthropy”, taught by Professor Stanley N. Katz.

The graduate class had high praise for the Boys & Girls Club’s newest social entrepreneurial venture. To be considered for the grant, a non-profit organization needed to demonstrate financial sustainability, solid track record, and innovativeness in delivering educational activities for at-risk youth in Mercer County.

The Boys & Girls Club of Trenton was one of four organizations to receive a large donation from the Princeton University graduate program. 

The newly constructed barber shop located within the main Club house at 212 Centre Street Trenton is scheduled to open in June.

It will run hand-in-hand with the Job Ready program which provides Club members, ages 16 to 18, with the skills and knowledge necessary to enter and compete in today’s workforce.

Following the eight-week Job Ready course, teens will graduate to the apprenticeship program at the Club’s barber shop where they will learn skill sets for becoming a barber.

The Boys & Girls Club of Trenton provides programs and services to 2,300 (1,200 daily) children and young adults each year at 12 program sites in the city of Trenton. To learn more about the Boys & Girls Club, visit www.bgctrenton.org