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SHAVAR JEFFRIES '99 IS CHANGING KIDS' LIVES IN NEWARK

IN THE NEWS: SHAVAR JEFFRIES '99 IS CHANGING KIDS' LIVES IN NEWARK

Newark native leaves six-figure salary behind for job at Newark Boys & Girls Club

Last year, Shavar Jeffries '99 left behind a six-figure salary to work with the Newark Boys & Girls Club. In a story that ran on Christmas Day in the Newark Star-Ledger, Jeffries says "I want the kids who come through the club during this era to say it changed their lives." When Jeffries Joined the Newark Boys & Girls Club, it was on the verge of financial ruin and faced massive layoffs, program cuts and the closure of at least one of its three Newark centers. That's when Newark natives Felix Rouse, 32, and Shavar Jeffries, 30, decide to leave behind six-figure salaries to use their Ivy League degrees and corporate savvy to save the club that saved them. Having righted the ship, they came up with a five-year plan to double membership, open three satellite centers and build up the club's almost non-existent endowment.