GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Dallas (BGCD) along with the Dallas Cowboys and Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) have officially opened the football field at the Grand Prairie Boys & Girls Club on Monday.

The football field was constructed with grant funds provided by LISC and the Dallas Cowboys Foundation. This field offers a safe environment for team football practice, BGCD inner Club football games and other physical education opportunities. The Grand Prairie Boys & Girls Club serves more than 600 youth annually.

The Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) is dedicated to helping community residents transform distressed neighborhoods into healthy and sustainable communities of choice and opportunity - good places to work, do business and raise children. LISC mobilizes corporate, government and philanthropic support to provide local community development organizations with: loans, grants and equity investments, local, statewide and national policy support and technical and management assistance. LISC is a national organization with a community focus. Our program staff are based in every city and many of the rural areas where LISC-supported community development takes shape. In collaboration with local community development groups, LISC staff help identify priorities and challenges, delivering the most appropriate support to meet local needs.

Gene and Jerry Jones Family Dallas Cowboys Charities have served the Dallas area community for the past 18 years. The dominant theme which underscores the Cowboys role in the community is to maximize the visibility, energy and celebrity of the world's most recognizable sports franchise and use those dynamic forces as a powerful means to help others. Jones enlists the talents, skills and resources of his entire family, all of the Cowboys players, and every member of the organization to provide a cutting edge approach to community outreach. Jerry Jones has a lifetime association with Boys & Girls Clubs of America. In 2001, the Joneses were awarded the Chairman's Award by Boys & Girls Clubs of America. This award is given to recognize individuals who made a positive difference in people's lives - particularly in the lives of children. The Chairman's Dinner, chaired by daughter, Charlotte Anderson, raised $1.9 million for Boys & Girls Clubs. Jerry currently serves as a national trustee for the Southwest region of the organization and was previously named the Man of the Year by Boys & Girls Clubs of Little Rock, Arkansas.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Dallas offers programming in five core areas to meet the diverse needs and interest of our members. The five core areas are: Character & Leadership Development, Education & Career Development, Health & Life Skills, The Arts and Sports, Fitness & Recreation. The programs offered provide strong moral guidance, positive role models and life-changing educational programs designed to save kids from lives of crime and failure. Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Dallas is an organization that stands for traditional values, while providing progressive programs that address the problems faced by the youth of today, including substance abuse, teen pregnancy, gangs and violence. Today, thousands of boys and girls from low-income neighborhoods benefit from the building centered programs and services designed specifically for them at fourteen local Clubs.