About Us
For almost 100 years, our mission has been focused on inspiring, developing and helping youth and teens reach their full potential. We believe that every young person deserves a great future. Our Vision is to provide a world-class Club Experience that assures success is within reach of everyone 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.
With the generous support of our community and investors, our youth get to engage with mentors and the right support system to help build academic and social emotional skills, express and demonstrate their creativity through the arts, develop leadership skills and participate in enriching experiences.
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Our Mission
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
Becoming a member is great, but what is better is staying a member. The Club showed me hard work and dedication, making me the young man that you see. It steered me the right way so I can be successful.
- Jerard M. Current Member
Our History
1930
The Boys Club of Dayton was founded and began delivering high quality, after-school and summer programming for youth K-12.
1968
The Boys Club of Dayton began operating out of the West Stewart Street building.
1990
The club’s name was changed to the Boys & Girls Club of Dayton after the national organization’s name changed to Boys & Girls Clubs of America. This name change was done to recognize that girls are a part of the cause.
2022
Membership fees were eliminated to make our life-changing programs accessible to all youth, caregivers, and families. Within days, the average daily attendance increased from 27 to 140 members—an increase of over 400%!
2022-2023
97% of our club members advanced to the next grade on schedule and 4,720 hours of service-learning activities were completed by club members.
Summer 2024
Fundraising began for the construction of the new Boys & Girls Club of Dayton.
2025
The Boys & Girls Club of Dayton currently has 460 registered members, and serves an additional 500 youth annually through community outreach events in our five feeder schools.
