Best Buy grant will aid Club Tech Center
A $10,000 grant from Best Buy will go toward the installation of a new Technology Center at the Boys & Girls Club in Waynesboro.
The grant, through Best Buy’s At 15 program, which is focused on community programs aimed at teens and adolescents, is the second in as many years to go to the Club from Best Buy, said Chris Ashby, the director of logistics at Best Buy in Staunton.
“We feel very, very fortunate that we’re able to work with the Boys & Girls Club again this year and provide them with funding,” Ashby said.
Joe Pittman headed up the review committee at the local Best Buy distribution center. He said the committee was focused this year on working with programs “that directly help the youth and try to tie the youth to technology.”
“Technology is a bigger part of children’s lives today. To have this program available for local area youth is hopefully going to have a big impact,” Pittman said.
Club Executive Director Ty McElroy said the money will go toward the purchase of new computers and related equipment for the Technology Center at the Club.
“Hopefully the products that we purchase will last several years into the future,” McElroy said.
More on the Boys & Girls Club at www.AugustaBGClub.org.
Best Buy Foundation benefits Big Brothers
The Best Buy Foundation announced on Monday a donation of $7,500 to assist Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Central Blue Ridge in its efforts to match area kids with positive adult mentors.
“We are absolutely delighted to be receiving this generous donation from our friends at Best Buy,” said Dave Norris, the executive director of the local Big Brothers Big Sisters, which is based in Waynesboro. “We rely heavily on the financial support of the business community, and it’s always heartening when corporate citizens like Best Buy step up in support of the work we are doing to benefit children throughout the Staunton, Augusta, and Waynesboro area and beyond.”
Best Buy’s grant will help boost the “100 Mentors for 100 Kids” campaign that Big Brothers Big Sisters launched earlier this year. Currently that campaign is at 84 percent of its goal of active matches and volunteers in process.
For more information on Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Central Blue Ridge and how you can become involved by mentoring a young person, please visit www.bbbsocbr.org. or call the Waynesboro office at 540.241.7626.
Edited by Chris Graham. Chris can be reached at freepress2@ntelos.net.
