Our 2023 winter Community Involvement opportunity marks the 22nd consecutive year that BLOC has committed to adopt local families for the holidays and the 19th year that this effort has been anchored by our bowling event! This year we will also be raising money for a local non-profit, Living Libraries, whose mission is to utilize educational, emotional, and social capital to creatively and collaboratively unlock the unlimited potential of self-empowered, heart-centered, resilient and coherent 21st century Superhumans. Because of generous donations like yours, you will be helping a child to care deeply about reading and learning so they can positively impact the world around them. | In 2022, we raised over $42,000 and over the years, we have been able |
You can support this effort numerous ways. The good news is that you don't have to
choose just one! You can participate in any and all activities!
TEAM REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN - SPACE IS LIMITED!
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EVENT INFO: Saturday, December 2nd 2023 Bowlero 10 Park Lanes | 1700 Montford Dr. Charlotte Registration starts at 2pm | Bowling starts at 3pm | 2 hours to complete 2 games | Awards & prizes 5pm After Party Details TBA |
WAYS TO GET INVOLVED IN BLOC-N-BOWL:
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BLOC-N-BOWL BOWLING EVENTFor six weeks leading up to BLOC 'n bowl, teams of four will solicit pledges from friends, family and colleagues that will give to those less fortunate so that we can adopt & help local families. The signature event is a bowling tournament at 10 Park lanes on a Saturday in December, where all teams bring their donations, bowl and enjoy food and prizes. |
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$150 per player Includes T-Shirt, appetizers, 2 drink tickets, and two games of Bowling. Payment and collected donations are due | TEAM FEE DISCOUNT $1,000 - $1,499 $1,500+ |
| SHOPPING & WRAP PARTYThe shopping team will be given family profiles, names, ages, sizes, wish lists and needs lists so we can fulfill as much as possible with our donated funds. We will assemble volunteers at a specified location with all of the necessary supplies (wrapping paper, tape, ribbons, tags, food and spirits....and of course some tunes)! This is always a ton of fun and the more the help the better! Stay tuned for more details. |
GIFT DELIVERYStay tuned for more details. We will assemble at the member’s location on Saturday morning to pickup and deliver holiday cheer into homes that have experienced little. This is one of the most rewarding and fulfilling experiences for a lot of our families. Bring your children! Witness true gratitude and genuine smiles. |
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2023 BENEFICIARY |
LIVING LIBRARIESThe mission of Living Libraries is to utilize educational, emotional and social capital to creatively and collaboratively unlock the unlimited potential of heart-centered, resilient and coherent 21st century, Superhuman learners and leaders with an emphasis on social justice and upward mobility for children in need. Living Libraries primarily serves at-risk children from the Charlotte area who wish to become real “Living Libraries.” Living Libraries are 21st Century Superhuman readers and leaders who are on a real-life collective mission to use their LiLi (pronounced Lee-Lee) Keys to unlock books, as so to fill their inner living libraries so they can become the best possible versions of themselves and grow up to positively impact the world. This innovative literacy-based program also instills positive self-esteem, empathy, EQ, goal setting, community and belonging, physical fitness, and more all infused with a unique dose of family and hope from the author and Creator of the Living Libraries program. |
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LiYo - Literacy Yoga Fusion
Because Living Libraries report reading 50% more than before on average, the company created a revolutionary, proprietary reading yoga fusion product called LiYo, which stands for Literacy Yoga Fusion. LiYo, pronounced “Lee-Yo,” helps children read for longer, more comfortably. It aligns the back, neck and spine so children can read in heathy postures that lengthen and strengthen, not in the slumped over the way we see too often today. This bad posture, or “text neck” is a cascading health issue for modern day.
LiYo helps undo bad habits of traditional reading and texting, so children (or adults) can reap a lifetime of better health associated with good strong posture. Additionally, the LiYo poses and breathing techniques entrain the brain hemispheres, and slow the brain waves so the participant reads/learns from the parasympathetic nervous system so that children (or adults) are reading and learning at a deeper level of mind. This 21st Century power reading has more than 40 known benefits to participants who can benefit from long-term effect of LiYo in as little as 15 minutes a day - www.living-libraries.com/liyo.
The goal is to raise funds to scale the LiYo in-person classroom teacher training model so Living Libraries can scale to train teachers in 10 or more area school in the spring of 2024. These licensed classroom teachers who will now be LiYo Literacy Yoga Fusion certified will then have the skills and support needed to integrate this curriculum into their classrooms and student’s life-long skill sets. Each training and support package costs approximately $2,000 to $3,000 per school depending on the size and needs of the school. Once they are able to scale 10-fold in this way, this will create enough impact, track-record and “buzz” to fully launch their (now in beta) online certification platform to teachers, parents and students nation-wide that can become earned income and support the work in area Title I schools.
Click here to visit our special BLOC n Bowl focused web page.
CONTACT US
Scott Donaghy, President | sdonaghy@bestintech.com
Faith Penney, Membership Committee Co-Chair | faith@wegrowvalue.com
Lauren Borchert, BLOC Administrator | admin@businessleadersofcharlotte.com