AMPAL Group Goes Above and Beyond to Support Local Boys & Girls Club

This year has proven to be a busy year for AMPAL Group and its partnership with its local Boys & Girls Club, and the group’s generosity with the Boys & Girls Club extended to their 2018 Youth of the Year Award.

“The Youth of the Year is the Boys & Girls Clubs of America’s annual signature event where each club highlights their best and brightest club members ages 14-18,” said Jordan McMeen, marketing coordinator with AMPAL Group, which is owned by Amit and Bipin Patel. The award, which includes an academic scholarship, is presented to the finalist who best exemplifies superior leadership skills, academic achievement and outstanding service to the club and the community. AMPAL-Peixe

For this year’s Youth of the Year, AMPAL Group’s president and CEO, Bipin Patel, was asked to be a judge on the panel that decided the 2018 Youth of the Year award winner. After interviewing the candidates, Patel was blown away by these outstanding young people, their drive to succeed and their plans for the future. Of the participants, Peixe Williams made a lasting impression on the judges and won the award.  

Patel took it upon himself to donate an additional $3,000 scholarship from AMPAL Group to the 2018 Youth of the Year winner to ensure they had a solid head start on college. With the help of Patel and AMPAL Group, Williams began her first year of college at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey, and has a bright future ahead of her. 

In addition to teaming up with the Boys & Girls Club Youth of the Year Award, AMPAL Group also helped the Boys & Girls Club of Union County with their club renovation. “AMPAL Group provided the manpower to help with everything from taping and painting rooms to hanging shelves and TVs for the club,” said McMeen.

And, as if that wasn’t enough, McMeen volunteered to be a chaperone for the Boys & Girls Clubs’ Keystone Conference held in Atlanta. She traveled with the group of teens and Boys & Girls Club staff to and from Atlanta and attended all conference events with her designated group of four teen girls, which included the Youth of the Year award winner, Peixe. “It was an amazing experience that reminded me how great of a partner Buffalo Wild Wings® chose when they teamed up with the Boys & Girls Clubs of America,” said McMeen.