Our Founder

Antone E. Raymus, a longtime home builder and developer, had a vision for a safe and productive place for struggling children who were in danger of being lost to society. Those children were struggling in school and often ended up in our judicial system. Therefore, in October of 1997, with the help of his good friend Bob Camden, Mr. Raymus held several meetings with community leaders that led to the formation of what we now call Give Every Child A Chance.

“A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of care I drove… But the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.”

– Antone E. Raymus