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On Oct. 4, 2024, the Boy Scouts of America Chester County Council hosted their eleventh annual Sporting Clays fundraiser at the Lehigh Valley Sporting Clays facility in Coplay, Pa. Bowen Asset sponsored a team for the event. Information: https://www.cccbsa.org/2024-events/annual-sporting-clays-invitational/
Bowen Asset Management has received the Legacy Donor Golden Clay award in recognition of our 10 years as supporters of the event. The Sporting Clays Invitational welcomes teams of four to test their skills on a course which features the fun of shooting at targets over water, through trees, in open fields, and between old quarry buildings. Bowen Asset sponsors a team including clients, colleagues, and portfolio managers. This program helps support the Chester County Council’s outreach program for economically disadvantaged youth and the general scouting program. Sporting clays, sometimes called “golf with a shotgun,” is an exciting and challenging shooting game in which clay targets are presented to the gunner in ways that mirror the behavior of game birds or rabbits in their natural habitats. The course is laid out in stations with each representing a type of bird or a combination of a bird and a rabbit. For more information: http://www.cccbsa.org/
Bowen Asset Management co-principal Zack R. Bowen has received the Silver Beaver Award from the Boy Scouts of America at a dinner at the Oscar Lasko PARC in Exton. The 2020 award (delayed by the pandemic) recognizes Zack’s years of volunteer service to youth with the Chester County Council. The Silver Beaver is the highest award given by the Boy Scouts at the council level, and Zack joins a distinguished group of recipients including former Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, baseball star Brooks Robinson, and football coach Dick Vermeil. Zack previously received a 15-year award certificate and pin as well as the Special Needs Scouting Service Award, in recognition of his 10-year involvement with the annual Special Needs Camporee. Zack has served as the committee chair of Troop 22, an executive committee member, a member of the Investment Committee for the Chester County Council, and on the Special Needs Committee for the Baltimore Area Council.
Bowen Asset Management Supports the Community
The Chester County Council's 33rd Annual Special Needs Camporee was held July 12, 2025, at Camp Ware on the Horseshoe Scout Reservation straddling the Mason-Dixon Line between Peach Bottom, Pennsylvania, and Rising Sun, Maryland. About 100 special-needs scout troops from Pennsylvania, Maryland, and as far away as upstate New York and Virginia attend. Camp activities included archery training, BB gun practice, swimming, handicrafts, cooking over an open fire, and other adventures. One parent said that the Camporee "made me proud to be a Special Needs Scouter. My son ... was treated by all the youth at the event as a Scout and not as a Scout with disabilities. The youth and staff at Camp Ware were absolutely awesome."
For information on the Camporee, go to: https://www.cccbsa.org/programs/camping/special-needs-camporee/
Watch a video about the Camporee.
The Bournelyf Special Camp in Chester County is a haven for individuals with mild to moderate intellectual and developmental disabilities. Founded in 1980, Bournelyf operates as a summer day camp with programs involving outdoor recreational activities, lifetime wellness and community outreach. For more information: 610-692-9027 or https://www.bscwc.org/
The Emerald Foundation, with the motto "Engage Enrich Empower Everyone," focuses on supporting education, empowering youth, and promoting health and safety awareness as well as acting as a collaborative hub for local and national nonprofits, with a targeted focus on scholastic esports (electronic sports) in the Lancaster and Philadelphia regions. In addition to providing support for esports clubs, the foundation also connects video game skills with career development and backs research into the benefits of esports for those on the autism spectrum. The foundation also operates a food pantry, runs the Rise 'N Shine Program providing work and life-skills training for students and adults with intellectual disabilities, and hosts Emerging Artists, a gallery for students to display their work. For more information: 717-560-7572 or https://emeralde.org/.
Bowen Asset Management Supports the Arts
Bowen Asset Management is a supporter of Delaware Shakespeare, presenting “professional, live, raucous, classical theatre” as the Bard intended, and seeking to make it affordable, accessible, and fun for all. The company's next production will be Shakespeare, Poe, & Fiends, featuring Del Shakes artists performing selections of scenes, prose, and poetry from Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, and their Gothic contemporaries, plus musical selections. The show goes on at various locations Oct. 25-26 and 30. Tickets are $45. For more information on Delaware Shakespeare: https://delshakes.org/
Bowen Asset Management is a supporter of the Delaware-based New Light Theatre, which focuses on providing opportunities for theater artists while also teaming up with charitable causes connected to the theme of each production. The company's next production will be The White Chip, a dark yet hopeful comedy about addiction and sobriety by Sean Daniels. The show is presented in partnership with Attack Addiction, whose mission is to raise awareness of and remove the stigma around the disease of substance use disorder through educating communities, assisting families in their quest for information, and supporting those in recovery. The show goes on at OperaDelaware Theater Company, 4 South Poplar Street, in Wilmington, from March 6 through 15. Tickets are $15 to $35. For more information: https://www.newlighttheatre.com/
Bowen Asset Management’s esteemed Chicago-based copy editor Savy Leiser is also a published author and clothing designer. Her clothing designs can be found at Hipster Unicorn. Her latest book is Savy's other books include Max the Vampire Kitty in her Furever Home Friends series; '90s Kids, a story of two time-traveling 21st-century teens who find themselves transported back to 1989, on the cusp of a decade of grunge, online video games, and a new era of sexual-identity acceptance; Sculpt Yourself, which addresses body issues in a tale about a fictional fat-cell-shifting form-shaping drug and the way it impacts three women; and One Final Vinyl, which follows a moody, record-loving teen girl’s picaresque adventure with a nonagenarian escapee from a retirement home. Reviews: GoodReads, Halftime Magazine, GoodReads, breakevenbooks.com, GoodReads and Joey Paul Online. Interviews: Sci-Fi Scary, Holly Bradshaw. Video review: Kayla Danielle.