Whether you bowl a strike or wind up in the gutter, everyone’s a winner at Boca Helping Hands’ Bowling for Bread. The 13th annual event is coming up on Aug. 25 from 2-5 p.m. at Strikes @ Boca Raton. Join in the fun for an afternoon of food, bowling, trophies and a silent auction.
The community event will benefit many area children’s charities, including 4KIDS of South Florida Inc., Adopt a Family, American Association of Caregiving Youth, Boys and Girls Club of Boca Raton, Family Promise of South Palm Beach County, Florence Fuller Child Development Centers, HomeSafe, Jim & Jan Moran Boys & Girls Club, Place of Hope, PROPEL, Salvation Army, SOS Children’s Villages, Unicorn Children’s Foundation and Peter Blum Family YMCA of Boca Raton.
The event is part of Boca Chamber Festival Days, a series of events held at different locations throughout the month of August, and is facilitated by the Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce. First Citizens Bank is Bowling for Bread’s for-profit partner; the event sponsor is the Lee Pearlson Steinberg Foundation.
Sponsorships and lanes are available. Corporate sponsorships are $600. A $200 contribution will reserve a lane. The cost to sponsor a child from one of the nonprofits so the child can bowl is $50.
Boca Helping Hands (BHH) is a community-based nonprofit that provides food, medical and financial assistance to meet basic human needs as well as education, job training and guidance to create self-sufficiency.
BHH distributes more than 70,000 pantry bags each year at three Palm Beach County locations and serves more than 55,000 hot meals annually, six days per week. The organization expands access to affordable medical, dental and behavioral care through its partnership with Genesis Community Health, serving uninsured clients at clinics in Boca Raton and Boynton Beach. BHH sends weekend meals home with local elementary school students via the BHH Backpacks Program and assists working families with the rising cost of childcare through the Children’s Assistance Program (CAP).
With an increased focus on client self-sufficiency, BHH offers free English as a Second Language (ESOL) classes and courses in nutrition and other life skills. Staff and volunteers also counsel the unemployed and underemployed in basic workplace skills, and BHH awards scholarships for qualified candidates to attend accredited vocational training classes for hospitality, home health aide, commercial truck driving, customer service representative, IT help desk technician, certified nursing assistant, and medical billing and coding.
For more information, visit bocahelpinghands.org/bowlingforbread.