Boys & Girls Clubs of the Valley

Boys & Girls Clubs of the Valley empowers young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible members of the community. The organization's vision is to be the premier out-of-school-time provider and a leading voice for youth development in Arizona, ensuring youth and teens have the skills and resilience to successfully navigate childhood and prepare for adulthood. BGCAZ provides after-school and summer programs in some of the Valley's most deserving neighborhoods. Our programs focus on four key areas: Academic Success, Healthy Lifestyles, Good Character & Leadership, and Career Pathways & Workforce Readiness. Great Futures Starts Here.

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Goal One: Align the RD Department fundraising strategy around four outcome areas of the Clubs, creating value propositions in each core area.

Goal Two: Create value propositions for each outcome area, develop a menu of opportunities for donor investment in each outcome and targeted program area.

Goal Three: Create revenue opportunities for new areas of Club programming not yet realized, according to funder interests and program intent.

Boys & Girls Clubs of the Valley invests in the organizational development of both board and staff leadership through tools such as board training tools provided by Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Emergentics, and self-development programs, along with the organization’s redesign as we look to grow in the future. This investment in balancing our work, focusing our teams, and preparing our departments for growth will have long term benefits for our staff and our members

Upon merging in January 2020, Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Phoenix and Boys & Girls Clubs of the East Valley embarked upon an integration plan to bring into alignment a comprehensive way of doing resource development. The goal was to establish the correct positions, tasks, processes, and systems that would allow for a team to meet the needs of a $16 million organization with 27 site locations. Two and a half months into the process of integration, the challenges of a nationwide pandemic shook the foundation of the team/organization. As we turn toward a new reality, the effects on fundraising and its future endeavors are unclear. By all accounts, our ability to fundraise through “events” has been severely mitigated. No longer, we assume, will people want to gather in large groups for the purposes of charity and philanthropy. At least, such an activity is unlikely in the near future and perhaps as far as 18 -24 months away. The blessing implicit in the pandemic was that it afforded us the opportunity to reinvent fundraising. It gives us the opportunity to look at things differently and grow into a more mature model of philanthropy, befitting an organization our size. To that end, conversation and brainstorming has ensued throughout the current RD team to find a new way – a better way, even – of finding the resources needed for the ongoing work our Clubs do with kids and teens. To that end, we present this living document. This is the beginning of the plan, intended for continuous development, improvement, and execution. Its intention is to shape and form direction - sometimes in minute detail, but most often in overarching themes and ways of doing business that will allow for success in the future. Organizing Principle We believe that everything in our organization should flow from an “organizing principle” that forms the dialogue, planning, and execution in any area. Our belief is that the organizing principle of our organization is the Formula For Impact.