Local businessman and philanthropist Scott Ramsdell has been selected to lead the Boys & Girls Club of the Northern Plains for the next two years. Ramsdell was elected to serve as the Club’s Corporate Board President at the organization’s Annual Meeting this past month.
For those unfamiliar with the reach of the Northern Plains region, it includes the Brookings, Moody County, Vermillion, and Yankton Clubs. Clubs in each community are experiencing incredible growth — not only in numbers, but in programming and overall facility expansions as well. In Moody County alone, the expansion planned for later this year will offer the more than 400 member children better areas to study, gather, learn and play.
Ramsdell, who told the Enterprise that there are few better ways to support children in the area than through the B&GC of Moody County, also received the Gary Isenberg Advocacy Award. The award, in honor of Gary Isenberg, a long-serving and influential Boys & Girls Club board member who passed away in November 2021, was the first Advocacy Award to be presented since his passing. Club officials say that it is meant to recognize a current board member who displays a similar passion and involvement in the promotion and advocacy for their Club.

Also recognized at the Annual Meeting were Dan Sutton and Kathy Doyle. Sutton received the Boys & Girls Club Rising Rockstar Award. Club officials say the award is given to someone serving their first term on the board and who goes above and beyond in their start with the organization and makes a visible impact within their Club.
Kathy Doyle was named a 2022 Champion of Youth. The Champion of Youth award is bestowed to individuals for exhibiting above-and-beyond service to their Boys & Girls Club. This is one of the highest honors they award to exemplary board members who have dedicated years of service to the Club, youth, and mission.
The recognitions come as the Boys & Girls Club of Moody County launches its 2023 Champion of Youth Annual Campaign and prepares for that expansion project mentioned above.
The Club is seeking to raise $53,000 to support the daily operations of the Club. An annual membership to the Boys & Girls Club of Moody County is $25 per child, while the actual cost to support one child attending the Club is about $2,500. Each day, Junior Kindergarten through 12th grade youth receive a free healthy snack and evening meal and are led by adult mentors through a variety of outcome-based programs in the priority areas of Academic Success, Healthy Lifestyles, and Character and Leadership.
To learn more about the programs available or how you might get involved, log onto www.greatfututressd.org or call 605-692-3333.