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Mission & Vision

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:

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

Boys & Girls Clubs of Northeast Florida has been building pillars in the Jacksonville community and across Northeast Florida for over 60 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 programming to more than 5,500 young people through 59 Clubs in Alachua, Clay, Duval, Nassau 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.