2025 Boys to Men

A Marquee Fundraiser to Help Support Programming for Boys

We are so excited to announce the 2025 BOYS to MEN featured speaker:

Curt Cignetti, Indiana University Football Coach & the 2025 BOYS to MEN moderator: Don Fischer, "Voice of The Hoosiers"

The event will be held at the Steve & Connie Ferguson Crestmont Club from 6:00pm to 8:30pm. 

Doors Open at 5:00pm.

For more information on sponsorships and tickets, contact Darcie Casey, VP of Resource Development at dcasey@bgcbloomington.org or Rebekah Thomas, Donor Relations Director, at rthomas@bgcbloomington.org.

BOYS to MEN is an annual event where funds to support world-class programming opportunities (like BOYS to MEN) are raised through various avenues including ticket sales, sponsorships, a live auction component and a concluding fund-a-need. This specific event, typically held during the fall, has been a long-standing tradition for the Club since 2012, and is traditionally a sold-out spectacle with nearly 300 people in attendance at the historic Lincoln Street Club – the original home of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Bloomington.

Originally billed “Man Up to Make a Difference,” this unique event was initially launched back on May 23, 2012, with guest speakers Steve Zeller and then-Indiana University Director of Athletics, Fred Glass. Since that time, more than 25 others have passionately supported this important fundraiser for the Club. In 2019, the event was re-branded to reflect the updated programmatic messaging of BOYS to MEN’s mentoring program. The Club first initiated BOYS to MEN programming in the Fall of 2019 with carefully chosen teens from the Richland-Bean Blossom Community School Corporation – some of which were already Club members – and influential male mentors from the community.