Boys & Girls Clubs of Southcentral Alaska’s Mission
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
Through targeted and meaningful programs Clubs are working to provide a world-class Club experience that ensures success is within reach of every young person. Striving to ensure all members are on track to achieve our priority outcomes:
- Academic Success – Graduating from high school ready for college, trade school, military, or employment
- Character & Leadership – Being an engaged citizen who is involved in the community, registering to vote, and modeling strong character
- Healthy Lifestyles – Adopting a healthy diet, practicing healthy lifestyle choices, and making a lifelong commitment to fitness
Our Vision
Provide a world-class Club Experience that assures success is within reach of every young person who enters our doors, with all members on track to graduate from high school with a plan for the future, demonstrating good character and citizenship, and living a healthy lifestyle.
Our Native Services Vision
For all American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and American Samoan communities that seek to embrace Boys & Girls Clubs to be provided the opportunity to work in partnership with the entire Boys & Girls Club Movement in achieving our ambitious vision of great futures for all young people, while sustaining and respecting each community’s unique cultural values, traditions and ways.
Native Services
As a part of Boys & Girls Clubs of America Native Services, we offer opportunities to provide Native youth with ongoing relationships with caring adult professionals, a safe place to learn and grow, life-enhancing programs, character development experiences and, most of all, hope and opportunity. Native Clubs strengthen their youth’s cultural identity through programming that explicitly promotes positive youth growth and development along critical cultural, social, emotional, intellectual, and physical dimensions through viable and sustainable organizations.
Our Commitment to Inclusion
We believe every kid has what it takes. The mission and core beliefs of Boys & Girls Clubs fuel our commitment to promoting safe, positive and inclusive environments for all. Boys & Girls Clubs of America supports all youth and teens – of every race, ethnicity, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, ability, socioeconomic status, and religion – in reaching their full potential.
Our History
Decades of Youth Development
Incorporated in November of 1966 in Anchorage, Boys & Girls Clubs of Southcentral Alaska began as the “Boys Club of Alaska.” The very first programs included Babe Ruth Baseball, intramural basketball, and an afterschool program.
In 1974, The Girls Club joined the fun! Programming included sports for girls in the Anchorage area. The 1970s also saw the expansion of the organization with its first stand alone Clubhouse in Spenard.
Today, Boys & Girls Clubs of Southcentral Alaska serves school-aged children and youth in 20 Clubhouse locations across the state. Our Child Development Center in Anchorage serves families with children ages 6 weeks through 6-years-old and is a licensed childcare facility. Our Athletics program offers multiple sessions with rotating sports programs throughout the year, including: basketball, dodgeball, cheerleading, flag football, indoor and outdoor soccer, volleyball, karate, and creative movement.
An Alaskan Nonprofit Organization
Boys & Girls Clubs of Southcentral Alaska is an IRS-approved 501(c)(3) charitable non-profit organization, EIN 92-0036082. Your contributions to Boys & Girls Clubs of Southcentral Alaska are tax deductible.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Southcentral Alaska completes an audit of its financial statements every year and is required to complete an A-133 single federal audit and single state audit given both federal and state revenues through grants and other income.