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

“At the national level, we’re a little bit better on our corporate fundraising than our local clubs because we have the capacity to provide national reach to a corporation,” Aschermann says.

“We created an in-house corporate fundraising operation, the Corporate Opportunities Group, and adopted some very for-profit principles of account management,” he adds.