Dinner with Friends
Together, we raised more than $520,000 for local youth at our 2025 event!
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our 2025 Dinner with Friends! Together, we raised more than $520,000 for youth in our community! It was an inspiring and fun-filled evening as we heard about the power of the Boys & Girls Club from our keynote speaker: former Seattle Seahawks wide receiver and Club alum Jermaine Kearse!
To everyone who supported this event, thank you! Your investment in Clubs helps us empower local kids and teens to reach their full potential every day.
About Dinner with Friends
Dinner with Friends is the premier corporate fundraising event for Boys & Girls Clubs of Benton and Franklin Counties.
Each year, we welcome a well-known Club Alumni, celebrity, or supporter as our special keynote speaker. Past year’s guests include Shaun White, K.J. Wright, Evander Holyfield, Gary Payton, Mario Lopez, Brandi Chastain, Michael Collins, and more! In 2025, we welcomed Seattle Seahawks Super Bowl champion Jermaine Kearse as our celebrity guest!
In addition to hearing from a different celebrity guest each year, we also hold an exciting live auction for all guests to participate in. Proceeds from this event are dedicated to supporting the 4,000+ youth served annually at our local Boys & Girls Clubs.
See photos from our 2025 event!
Join us in 2026!
Interested in attending our 2026 Dinner with Friends? Email Meggan Tjarks, Special Events & Corporate Engagement Director, at meggan.tjarks@greatclubs.org to learn more about our 2026 event and our sponsorship opportunities. We can’t wait to see you!
Relive the best moments of the night!
Want to relive our 2025 event, or want to see what happened? Watch a full video recording of our 2025 Dinner with Friends.
