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2015-16StateBudgetPriorities
AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS
One of the goals of the Boys & Girls Clubs is to ensure
that all youth have a safe place to go after school. All of
the Boys & Girls Clubs offer programs that help children
do well in school, graduate from high school on time, and
prepare them for a post-secondary education and a 21st-
century career. After-school programs are essential to the
Boys & Girls Clubs and additional funding is necessary.
Advantage After School
$17.2 million was included in the Governor’s budget. The
Alliance recommends an additional $500,000 for this
program to bring the program up to the 2014-15 level.
Extended Day
Alliance supports this program and funding.
YOUTH DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
Youth development programs are important funding
streams for the Boys & Girls Clubs and enable Clubs to
provide important services to at-risk youth. Nearly 70% of
Clubs across the State receive this funding through their
county youth bureaus.
Youth Development Program
The majority of Clubs from around the State receive
funding for this program. $14.1 million was included in the
Governor’s budget. The Alliance recommends that:
• Add $2.4 million to the Youth Development Program,
which would include the restoration of last year’s legislative
add of $1.285 million. This will allow for the funding to be
level with 2014 funding and increasing by $2.4 million for
additional program and services.
Community Optional Preventive Services
(COPS)
Runaway and Homeless Youth
Add a total of $2.4 million for the Runaway and Home-
less Youth Act (RHYA) programs, which would include a
restoration of $254,456.00 for a total of $4.7 million.
EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMS
Helping our youth to find and maintain jobs is another
priority for our Clubs. This is especially important given the
high unemployment rate (40%) among New York’s youth.
Summer Youth Employment
The Governor’s budget increases funding for this program
from $27.5 million to $30 million. The Alliance strongly
supports this program and this increase in funding.
Urban Youth Jobs Program Tax Credit
(Formerly NY Youth Works Program)
The Governor’s budget renames and rebrands the NY
Youth Works Program. Under the new Urban Youth Jobs
Program, the Governor builds off the intitial structure of
the NY Youth Works Program but includes criteria to target
the program to youth in areas of high unemployment and
poverty. In addition the budget allocates an additional $10
million of tax credits per year for 2015-17 for employers.
To ensure success of this new program, the Alliance
recommends that funding be provided in the budget for job
training, as was provided in initial program implementation
in 2011. This component made a huge impact on the
success of the NY Youth Works Program and should be
continued under the rebranded program.
FY 2015-16 State Budget Priorities
For more information, please contact:
Jackie Negri, Director, NewYork StateAlliance of Boys & Girls Clubs, Inc. • 518. 436.8712 • jackie@nycap.rr.com
Terri Crowley, Hinman Straub • 518.436.0751 •TCrowley@hinmanstraub.com

FY 2015-16 State Budget Priorities (cont’d)
New York State Alliance of Boys & Girls Clubs
CAPITAL
Nonprofit Infrastructure Capital Investment
Program
The Governor’s budget includes $50 million for grants to
eligible nonprofit human services organizations for a new
Nonprofit Infrastructure Capital Investment Program. This
program will provide funding through a competitive process
for capital projects to improve the quality, efficiency, and
accessibility of nonprofit human services organizations that
serve New Yorkers. Investments include improvements to
technology related to improving electronic records, data
analysis or confidentially, renovations or expansions
of space used for direct program services, and/or
modifications to provide for sustainable energy efficiencies
and cost savings.
The Alliance supports this one-time funding that would
allow nonprofits in the state to make critical investments
into infrastructure and necessary improvements.
JUVENILE JUSTICE
Raise the Age
The Governor’s budget includes language to raise the
age of juvenile jurisdiction from 16 to 18 years of age as
recommended by the Governor’s Commission on Youth,
Public Safety and Justice.
TheAlliance supports raising the age of juvenile jurisdiction
and thinks such detailed phase-in is a smart way to ensure
that such instrumental change to our juvenile justice
system is implemented correctly.
ANTI-GUN PROGRAMS
Ensuring the safety of children is fundamental to the
mission of Boys & Girls Clubs.
S.N.U.G.
The Governor’s budget provides $1 million for the
establishment or continued operation of regional S.N.U.G.
programs in the Bronx, Queens, Rockland and Onondaga
and $2 million for the establishment or continued operation
of regional S.N.U.G. programs in other parts of the state.
The Alliance supports this program and funding.
Our Mission
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential
as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
Core Beliefs
A Boys & Girls Club Provides:
A safe place to learn and grow...Ongoing relationships with caring, adult professionals...
Life-enhancing programs and character development experiences...
Hope and opportunity.

AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS
One of the goals of the Boys & Girls Clubs is to ensure
that all youth have a safe place to go after school. All of the
Boys & Girls Clubs offer programs that help children do well
in school, graduate from high school on time, and prepare
them for a post-secondary education and a 21st-century
career. After-school programs are essential to the Boys &
Girls Clubs and additional funding is necessary.
Advantage After School
Alliance recommends an additional $500,000 for this
program to bring the program up to the 2014-15 level.
Extended Day
YOUTH DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
Youth development programs are important funding
streams for the Boys & Girls Clubs and enable Clubs to
provide important services to at-risk youth. Nearly 70% of
Clubs across the State receive this funding through their
county youth bureaus.
Youth Development Program
The majority of Clubs from around the State receive
funding for this program. $14.1 million was included in the
Governor’s budget. The Alliance recommends that:
• An additional $1.3 million, as was done in FY 2014-15,
be added to bring the funding to the actual 2014 calendar
year level and to prevent programmatic reductions.
Community Optional Preventive Services
(COPS)
Runaway and Homeless Youth
Alliance supports an additional $254,000, as was done in
FY2014-15, tobringthefundingtotheactual2014calendar
year level and to prevent service reductions.
EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMS
Helping our youth to find and maintain jobs is another
priority for our Clubs. This is especially important given the
high unemployment rate (40%) among New York’s youth.
Summer Youth Employment
The Governor’s budget increases funding for this program
from $27.5 million to $30 million. The Alliance strongly
supports this program and this increase in funding.
Urban Youth Jobs Program Tax Credit
(Formerly NY Youth Works Program)
The Governor’s budget renames and rebrands the NY
Youth Works Program. Under the new Urban Youth Jobs
Program, the Governor builds off the intitial structure of
the NY Youth Works Program but includes criteria to target
the program to youth in areas of high unemployment and
poverty. In addition the budget allocates an additional $10
million of tax credits per year for 2015-17 for employers.
To ensure success of this new program, the Alliance
recommends that funding be provided in the budget for job
training, as was provided in initial program implementation
in 2011. This component made a huge impact on the
success of the NY Youth Works Program and should be
continued under the rebranded program.
CAPITAL
Nonprofit Infrastructure Capital Investment
Program
The Governor’s budget includes $50 million for grants to
eligible nonprofit human services organizations for a new
FY 2015-16 State Budget Priorities
The following are additional FY 2015-16 budget priorities for the New York State Alliance of Boys & Girls Clubs
TalkingPointsforLegislativeVisits

FY 2015-16 State Budget Priorities (cont’d)
New York State Alliance of Boys & Girls Clubs
Nonprofit Infrastructure Capital Investment Program. This
program will provide funding through a competitive process
for capital projects to improve the quality, efficiency, and
accessibility of nonprofit human services organizations that
serve New Yorkers. Investments include improvements to
technology related to improving electronic records, data
analysis or confidentially, renovations or expansions
of space used for direct program services, and/or
modifications to provide for sustainable energy efficiencies
and cost savings.
The Alliance supports this one-time funding that would
allow nonprofits in the state to make critical investments
into infrastructure and necessary improvements.
JUVENILE JUSTICE
Raise the Age
The Governor’s budget includes language to raise the
age of juvenile jurisdiction from 16 to 18 years of age as
recommended by the Governor’s Commission on Youth,
Public Safety and Justice.
TheAlliance supports raising the age of juvenile jurisdiction
and thinks such detailed phase-in is a smart way to ensure
that such instrumental change to our juvenile justice
system is implemented correctly.
ANTI-GUN PROGRAMS
Ensuring the safety of children is fundamental to the
mission of Boys & Girls Clubs.
S.N.U.G.
The Governor’s budget provides $1 million for the
establishment or continued operation of regional S.N.U.G.
programs in the Bronx, Queens, Rockland and Onondaga
and $2 million for the establishment or continued operation
of regional S.N.U.G. programs in other parts of the state.
The Alliance supports this program and funding.
Our Mission
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as
productive, caring, responsible citizens.
Core Beliefs
A Boys & Girls Club Provides:
A safe place to learn and grow...
Ongoing relationships with caring, adult professionals...
Life-enhancing programs and character development experiences...
Hope and opportunity.

Helping to Stop Childhood Hunger
On behalf of the 179,000 youth they serve, the New York State Alliance of Boys and Girls Clubs came to you for help. Childhood
poverty in New York was at the highest level it’s been since 2004 with almost 901,000 children under the age of 18 living below the
federal poverty level.1
In New York, 1 in 6 children were living in homes without enough food on the table.2
Childhood hunger was,
and continues to be, a serious and growing problem and significantly impacts the network of Boys & Girls Clubs across the State.
What Clubs continue to experience is that many of the youth they serve are likely to go without dinner unless they receive it while
at the Club.
THE SOLUTION: With your help, the Alliance was able to secure $750,000 in the FY 2014-15 budget for a third year of funding
for our nutrition initiative which allowed us to continue to address this serious problem. The Alliance made tremendous strides in
2014 to address childhood hunger among the youth we serve.
GOAL 1
In 2013, assist the Boys & Girls Clubs
to provide additional food to the youth
they serve.
• This funding helped Clubs impact
and serve almost an additional
10,000 youth through the provision of
new snacks and meals.
• An additional 1,000 youth and their
families were provided backpacks
filled with food for the weekend.
GOAL 2
In 2013, assist the Boys & Girls Clubs
to help the youth they serve to make
healthy choices that result in lifelong
changes.
• An additional 2,100 youth had the
opportunity to participate in classes
designed to teach them how to eat
better and to make positive lifelong
changes.
GOAL 3
In 2013, assist the Alliance to build
capacity among Clubs to achieve,
maintain, and sustain food availability
and choice.
• Additional Clubs partnered with
their local food banks and community
organizations to build sustainable
partnerships and networks.
*Outcomes
The Outlook for FY 2015-16
However, the problem still exists and necessitates the need for additional funding. Feeding America recently reported
that 16.3% of the population in New York, and more specifically 22% of children in New York, have food insecurity. That
is approximately 2.9 million people and 920,000 children.3
*Food insecurity refers to USDAs measure of lack of access, at times, to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members and limited
or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate foods. Food insecure children are those children living in households experiencing food insecurity.
The Solution for FY 2015-16
To continue this progress, the NYS Alliance of Boys & Girls Clubs is seeking
$1 million in the FY 2015-16 budget to continue and build on previous year’s efforts and
continue to feed youths’ bodies and minds.

1 The Annie E. Casey Foundation, KIDS COUNT Data Center, datacenter.kidscount.org, 2010 data
2 Governor Cuomo’s 2012 State of the State Address
3 http://feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/hunger-studies/map-the-meal-gap.aspx
*While the 2014 numbers are still being collected, it is the anticipated that at least an equal number of youth were served, demonstrating the the significant
and critically important impact these funds have had on our youth.

(Name of Club) extends sincere thanks for your assistance
in securing $750,000 in last year’s 2014-15 New York State
budget for food and nutritious meals for children and families
served by Boys & Girls Clubs across the State. Statistics
demonstrate that 1 in 6 children live in homes without enough
food–thisfundingwillhelpustolowerthesestartlingnumbers.
Across the State, Clubs have increasingly found many of the
youth they serve are likely to go without dinner unless they
receive it while at the Club. In (name the districts you provide
services in), we find that to be true as well. (Name of Club)
struggles to meet this most basic yet serious need of providing
the youth they serve with food to fuel their brains and their
bodies.
(Name of Club) serves ( # ) of children every day. We are
pleased to inform you that due to your personal support and
the generosity of the Legislature, we will be able to serve (state
what your club will be doing with the funding – e.g. Serving
dinner to an additional 100 youth weekly; send home ( # ) of
backpacks with food on the weekend to over ( # ) of families
and youth, etc.) We believe this funding will benefit many of
your constituents (give examples of what you will be doing
–focus on numbers of youth/families, any partnerships (food
banks, etc.) and any initiatives that they may be familiar with).
Since our initiative started, we have been able to:
• Provide meals and snacks to an additional 10,000 youth;
• Provide weekend backpacks for an additional 1,000 youth
and their families; and
• Provide educational programming on healthy living to an
additional 2,100 youth.
In addition, more Clubs than ever before are now partnering
with the local food banks and other community resources.
Recommendation
• We hope we can count on your assistance during the 2015-16 State Budget session. We are asking for
$1 million in the 2015-16 budget to continue this very important and successful initiative.
• This funding is critical to meet the hunger needs of (number of children in district that you will serve) and is needed on
an ongoing basis.
• Any cuts to this funding will result in children and families not being able to continue to receive dinner and/or healthy
foods. This would be a step in the wrong direction for those we serve.
• We appreciate your continued support of (Name of Club) and more importantly, the commitment you have to the children
and families we serve in your district. Let’s work together to provide nutritious meals and snacks for a healthy lifestyle to
the children and families in (name of district).
• Please feel free to contact me (give your business card) if you need further data and/or supports to continue this most
important funding initiative.
• We welcome you to stop by to take a picture of you and the youth during their (snack time, dinner time, backpack
giveaway, etc.). We will follow up with your staff to coordinate a date and time so you can see firstshand the tremendous
impact your efforts had on the children and families we serve.
THANK YOU!!
The New York StateAlliance of Boys & Girls Clubs serves over 179,000 youth annually, and have on any given day approximately 22,000 youth
at their Clubs during the school year and 14,000 youth at their Clubs during the summer.
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