{"id":75765,"date":"2022-03-07T09:48:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T14:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/?p=75765"},"modified":"2026-04-01T16:38:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:38:55","slug":"celebrating-bgc-black-leaders-meet-bgc-preston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/celebrating-bgc-black-leaders-meet-bgc-preston\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating BGC Black Leaders &#8211; Meet BGC Preston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/blackexcellencepreston.jpeg\" align=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">BGC Clubs across the country took part in Black History Month, creating their own activations and engaging their communities. With the theme <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Black Excellence<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">, BGC Preston used the month as an opportunity to celebrate their Club alumni\u2014and through a celebration of BGC Black leaders, they demonstrated to their Club youth that anyone can overcome their barriers and thrive.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Like other Clubs, BGC Preston recognizes the importance of having their current youth, volunteers, and staff see the success and wellness <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">of members who used to walk through the same Club doors as them.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Plus, all the BGC Preston alumni they celebrated have given back to the Club and community in some way, either through volunteering, becoming board members, or donating!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"vimeo-player\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/685652068?h=7c7d9e3cd7\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BGC Clubs across the country took part in Black History Month, creating their own activations and engaging their communities. With the theme Black Excellence, BGC Preston used the month as an opportunity to celebrate their Club alumni\u2014and through a celebration of BGC Black leaders, they demonstrated to their Club youth that anyone can overcome their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[89,852,853,848,854,75,145],"class_list":["post-75765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bgc-news","tag-bgc-clubs","tag-bgc-preston","tag-black-exellence","tag-celebrating-bgc-black-leaders","tag-leaders","tag-opportunity-changes-everything","tag-youth"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}