After struggling with adjusting to the pandemic, a division of Boys and Girls Clubs of America that focuses on Native youth was pleasantly surprised to learn in December that they can fall back on $30 million from a South Dakota foundation.
Issues like food insecurity, mental health, academic success and technology barriers were of concern, said Carla Knapp, national vice president of the club’s Native Services division and citizen of the Penobscot Indian Nation.
“The strength that those clubs h