Community Service

Community Service

In 2010, BGCA’s Board of Governors convened a Commission on Impact, made up of Club leaders and other youth experts, to determine how to increase the positive impact of Boys & Girls Clubs on America’s young people. Based on the commission’s recommendations, youth development research and more than a century of Clubs’ own experience, BGCA: refined its program focus to ensure that Club youth achieve outcomes in three priority areas: Academic Success, Good Character and Citizenship, and Healthy Lifestyles; and developed a research-informed theory of change, called Formula for Impact, to guide Boys & Girls Clubs in helping young people achieve these outcomes.
The commission also challenged BGCA to become a leader in outcomes measurement, building the capability of Club organizations to collect and use data to gauge their positive effect on their young members.


 BGCA responded to this challenge by launching the National Youth Outcomes Initiative (NYOI), a system built to measure the impact of Boys & Girls Clubs in a consistent manner using a common set of research-informed indicators of our priority outcomes. NYOI’s key tool for gathering outcomes data is the National Outcomes Survey, administered to Club members each spring.

BGCA continues to provide resources and intensive training and technical assistance to enable local Club organizations to use NYOI effectively. For me to work with younger people not as gifted as me and to give back helped me. Volunteering for the boys and girls club has helped me become a better person.

I worked for the Boys & Girls Club on shonnard. They serve the community by keeping  the kids off the street staying active.