With nearly 4,000 local affiliates as it celebrates its centennial, Boys and Girls Clubs of America still is learning how to keep everyone funded, happy and on the same page.

By Nicole Rollender

“As you increase face-to-face solicitation, you exponentially increase success and dollars,” he says. “Face-to-face meetings with donors are a primary ask strategy on the national and local level for BGCA.

“We’re hoping all of our clubs will implement this program in 2007,” he adds. “A primary focus in the centennial year is institutionalizing individual fundraising drives at the club level.”