The Boys & Girls Club of Cape Cod to Hold Ground Breaking Ceremony for New Teen Center
2026-05-14 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York)
WHAT: Local dignitaries and donors will join the Boys & Girls Club of Cape Cod for a groundbreaking ceremony for a new Teen Center. The nearly 10,000 square-foot Center will be built adjacent to the Boys & Girls Club’s Kraft Family Clubhouse in Mashpee, Massachusetts.

The Teen Center will fulfil a critical need for local youth, providing them with mental health counseling, homework support and assistance with college applications and career readiness, as well as recreational activities. The Center will be equipped with an education room, a music room with a recording studio, an art room, a full kitchen and snack bar, game room, health and fitness room and an indoor basketball court. More than $6 million has been raised for the project thus far. The new Teen Center is expected to open in February 2027. The building was designed by architect Henry Arnaudo, HPA design. In kind donations, including a library of signed first edition books by national best-selling authors such as Cape Cod native Casey Sherman (The Finest Hours), and William Martin (Cape Cod), Hank Phillippi Ryan (All This Could Be Yours), Joseph Finder (The Oligarch’s Daughter) & Dave Wedge (Blood & Hate: The Untold Story of Marvelous Marvin Hagler’s Rise to Glory), and donations from the Boston Celtics have been secured for the new Teen Center. NWN is working with Boys & Girls Club of Cape Cod to develop a custom-built AI educational program while also consulting about their new facility’s technology investments.

WHEN: Thursday, May 14, 2026 at 11 AM

WHERE: Boys & Girls Club of Cape Cod, 31 Frank E. Hicks Drive, Mashpee, MA 02649.

WHO:

Jim Kiley, Board President, Boys and Girls Club of Cape Cod
Ruth Provost, Executive Director, Boys and Girls Club of Cape Cod
Major donors, including Dick Galbraith. The new Teen Center will be named in honor of Galbraith’s grandfather, J.C. Galbraith.
Andrew Gilman, Chief Marketing Officer, NWN
State Representative Kip Diggs
State Representative David Vieira
State Representative Steven Xiarhos
Mashpee Town Dignitaries
Teen members of the Boys & Girls Club of Cape Cod

The town of Mashpee has granted the Boys & Girls Club of Cape Cod a 99-year lease for the property.

3D animation of new Teen Center: Stream

For more information about the “Raise the Roof” capital campaign, please visit boysgirlsclubcapecod.org
