“Too Legit To Split – Back to the 90’s” Bowl – A –Thon to benefit Cray’s Mentoring Programs held April 29 th . The 29 th Annual Bowl-A-thon t benefit 1-to-1 Mentoring Lawrence County and Compeer Youth Lawrence County, both mentoring programs from Cray, was a “Legit” success! The event raised approximately $20,000, which is [...]
Volunteer Mentoring Opportunity for Lawrence County High School Students HS Mentor volunteer application and reference forms 2023 Are you a high school student looking to make a difference? Are you interested in a career working with children such as education or social work? This volunteer opportunity will give you [...]
13 years ago, Bill Nesbitt and some other members of Clen-Moore church were looking for a way to get involved with Cray. They developed a unique partnership with our mentoring program that allowed church members to be matched with a child in the mentoring program, but instead of meeting one [...]
I want to apologize that we did not get a Fall newsletter out to all you folks, but time just got away from us. Winter was brutal in many ways this year with almost all of us personally touched by the devastating effects of this continuing pandemic! Certainly the bright spot for Cray was [...]
Thank You For Your Generous Support! After two years of modifying out Bowl-A-Thon, it was such a relief to get back to “normal” this year. We had 30 teams comprised of co-workers, family, and friends who collected donations to benefit our mentoring programs and came out to bowl with us! In addition, we [...]
Kaufman Visitation House On June 23, 2021 the Cray Visitation House was officially dedicated the “Kaufman Visitation House” in honor of the late, great Crayon, Jill Kaufman. Cray was lucky to have 25 years of Jill Kaufman. She held many titles under the Cray umbrella. Jill made her mark as a houseparent, a property manager, [...]
High School Mentoring Programs Are Back! High School Mentoring Programs will be back in the fall! Students ages 15-17 are encouraged to apply. They will need an application, two references, and an interview with our staff. High School Mentors will meet as a group with their elementary aged mentees in evening programming that is supervised [...]
Bowl-A-Thon 2021 When we were trying to decide what Bowl A Thon 2021 was going to look like, we knew it wouldn’t be “typical”. Our annual Bowl-A-Thon usually raises around $22,000 to support our mentoring programs. Both 1-to-1 Mentoring and Compeer Youth are funded completely by grants and donations, so Bowl A Thon is extremely [...]
Well, hopefully we are getting on the other side of this horrible pandemic. Late spring and early summer have been beautiful! Not sure that the weather has been that different than previous years, but being able to see people’s whole faces and interacting in person with others has been wonderful!! Being able to shake hands [...]
Bowl-A-Thon registration and sponsor information can be found here. We are so excited to announce that we will be holding our annual Bowl-a-thon to benefit Cray’s Mentoring Programs in person at Colonial Lanes on May 22, 2021! The theme this year will be “Bowl-a-thon in the Twilight Zone”, which feels like a very accurate representation of the [...]
