Panda Cares Foundation
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Dear Community Partners
We are so excited about this grant award - thank you, Panda Cares Foundation/Panda Express!
Bakersfield, CA (December 12, 2024) – The Boys & Girls Clubs of Kern County have been selected to receive a $160,000 Panda Cares Project Learn (Academic Success) Grant to drive academic success for youth at 12 local Boys & Girls Clubs. This opportunity is made possible through the Panda Cares Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Panda Express.
Panda Cares
BGCKC Stockdale Club Expansion
Panda Cares
BGCKC Armstrong Youth Center
Club Expansion
Project Learn reinforces the academic enrichment and school engagement of young people
during the time they spend at the Club.
Students do much better in school when they spend their non-school hours engaged in fun, but academically beneficial, activities. Through Project Learn, Club staff use all the areas and programs in the Club to create opportunities for these high-yield learning activities, including leisure reading, writing activities, discussions with knowledgeable adults, helping others, homework help, tutoring and games that develop young people’s cognitive skills. Project Learn also emphasizes parent involvement as well as collaboration between Club and school professionals.
