About Boys & Girls Clubs

A place where Promise lives.

Our Promise:

To provide a quality developmental program that empowers metro Atlanta youth, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances, to become productive adults.

Our Rich History of Providing Promise:

For more than 70 years, Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta (BGCMA) has been in the forefront of youth development, working with young people from disadvantaged economic, social and family circumstances. BGCMA enriches the lives of girls and boys that other youth agencies fail to reach. BGCMA is dedicated to ensuring that our community’s young people, who are most in need of our help, have greater access to quality programs and services that provide promise, hope and opportunities to ensure that they may become productive adults.

Since 1938, we have provided children with a positive place to go, results-oriented programming and a professional staff to guide them. Last year, BGCMA served more than 17,000 young people through its Clubs, summer sites and outreach programs. We operate 24 full-time Clubs in 12 metro counties in addition to Camp Kiwanis and Youth Art Connection, an art gallery and workspace for young people in downtown Atlanta.

Clubs are located in communities with the greatest need where similar services are limited or nonexistent. The cost of providing services to a member for a year is $1000, but in order to effectively serve those who need us most, BGCMA asks families to pay annual membership dues of only $35 per child and no child is turned away due to inability to pay.

A private, nonprofit organization, Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta improves young lives as well as the communities that surround and support us. The organization relies upon private, corporate, individual and United Way funding to fill the gap between membership dues and operational expenses.