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Chop's Teen Club membership is open to Santa Rosa teens in 7th - 12th grades. Annual membership is just $1.00 per year. Programs include art, sports and fitness, technology, music & recording and culinary and catering. We also have work-ready programs, leadership training and volunteer opportunities.

In 1995 Charles “Chop” DeMeo left the bulk of his estate to the Sonoma County Community Foundation to create a safe and productive place for teens in our community. Through a series of public meetings and teen surveys, the plans for a teen club took shape. Once a site was identified and approved, the question of what to call the teen club arose – and the answer was obvious: it would be named after the man who made it all possible, the man who was known to his friends and family as “Chop.” Chop’s Teen Club is the realization of the dream of Charles “Chop” DeMeo, who saw teens as assets to the community, and wished to bui ...