{"id":18416,"date":"2018-01-12T15:14:38","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T20:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/?p=18416"},"modified":"2018-01-12T15:14:38","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T20:14:38","slug":"a-passion-for-service-kim-gray-evans-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/a-passion-for-service-kim-gray-evans-98\/","title":{"rendered":"A Passion for Service: Kim Gray Evans \u201998"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nKim Evans\u2019 involvement with the Boys and Girls Clubs of the Central Savannah River Area in Augusta, Ga., began with volunteering five hours a week.
\nEvans, an accounting major at Clemson, had worked in management accounting in the manufacturing and health care sectors. With the birth of two sons, Jacob and Jared, she wanted to be home more and started a small accounting firm. It was one of her clients, a Boys and Girls Club board member, who recruited her to work with the organization.
\n\u201cI\u2019ve always been someone who just never sits down \u2014 within six months to a year I was probably working for them 30 hours a week,\u201d she says. [pullquote]Within 2\u00bd years, she was part of helping the organization grow from three to eight area clubs serving more than 3,000 youth. By 2011, she was the chief financial officer, managing a $3.5 million budget and overseeing grants and federal funding.[\/pullquote]
\nThen the CEO was promoted to the national level, and Evans became interim CEO. It didn\u2019t take the board long to remove \u201cinterim\u201d from her title.
\nIt was the Boys and Girls Clubs\u2019 mission to \u201cinspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens\u201d that ignited Evans\u2019 passion. \u201cI didn\u2019t have a Boys and Girls Club growing up, so I had no idea about the mission when I started,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019ve always wanted to be involved in the community and giving back. All the things I wanted to do with my life\u2019s work aligned very quickly with what was happening here.\u201d
\nThis past spring Evans was invited as one of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America CEOs to attend a year-long Harvard
\nBusiness School executive education program, studying companies and organizations and the ways CEOs make decisions, and translating that to the nonprofit sector.
\n\u201cSometimes in the nonprofit arena we don\u2019t have a product that we sell,\u201d she says. \u201cWe have to go out and make the case to individuals and corporations and foundations that we\u2019re worth the investment.\u201d
\nBack home, Evans\u2019 priority is convincing folks that the mission of helping kids reach their potential is worth an investment. \u201cI focus on building a better community. These kids are the future. This is your future workforce, your kids\u2019 future neighbors. This is worth the investment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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