OUR MISSION
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
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.
Core Values
To ensure our young people, Clubs and colleagues are always our highest priorities, we commit to these core values:
Integrity: We are authentic, honest and transparent; we strive to do the right thing every day, every time.
Collaboration: We work effectively within and across teams, with engaged and empowered people to accomplish our goals; we celebrate success together.
Accountability: We do what we say and hold each other to the highest standards; we are impeccable stewards of all our resources; and we foster an environment of safety.
Respect: We honor diversity and inclusion, treat others with respect, and express gratitude; we embrace alternative ways of thinking.
Excellence: We excel in service delivery, rigorously measure impact, and work to continuously improve ourselves and our organization; we are innovative.
THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB CODE
I believe in God and the Right to Worship According to My own Faith & Religion.
I believe in America and the American way of Life, In the Constitution, and The Bill of Rights.
I believe in fair play, Honesty, and Sportsmanship.
I believe in My Boys & Girls Club Which Stands for all these things.
OUR HISTORY
The first Boys & Girls Club, founded in April of 1966, The Laurence F. Lee Boys’ Club of Jacksonville.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Northeast Florida has been building pillars in the Jacksonville community and across Northeast Florida for over 50 years. Our organization was chartered on July 23, 1962, as the Boys’ Club of Jacksonville and in April 1966, we opened the doors to our first Club, the Laurence F. Lee Club, in Springfield.
On March 21, 1988, as more girls began to join our Clubs, Boys’ Club of Greater Jacksonville changed its legal name to Boys & Girls Clubs of Northeast Florida. Today, we provide daily youth development and educational programing to more than 5,200 young people through 56 Clubs in Alachua, Clay, Duval and St. Johns counties after school and during the summer.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Northeast Florida is a proud affiliate of Boys & Girls Clubs of America, the nation’s most effective youth development organization in the United States.