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

E-mail fundraising, he says, will be upgraded once BGCA gets through its centennial year.

BGCA also receives a good bit of funding from corporations. There currently are 735 of them supporting BGCA, with corporate giving in 2005 amounting to $19 million. Corporate partners benefit by receiving the opportunity to make a positive impact on kids; encouraging volunteer involvement; and creating greater public awareness through publications, BGCA’s intranet, conferences, advertising and consumer promotions.