Boys and Girls Clubs of the Peninsula

A core belief of Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula (BGCP) is that all youth have talents and it’s BGCP’s job to identify and nurture those talents so they blossom because all youth deserve to have optimism about their future.

Just like the rest of America, our San Francisco Peninsula community has become more segregated based on income and race over the past decades. We now have many disparate neighborhoods with extreme differences in wealth, education, and opportunity here. Serving over 5,600 TK-college-aged young people annually at 29 sites, BGCP has expanded its presence and program quality year after year – and Sand Hill Foundation has been there almost every step of the way.

Even before the foundation’s inception in 1995, Susan Ford Dorsey partnered with Condoleezza Rice to create the Center for a New Generation – an enterprise that would become BGCP’s robust middle school enrichment program in the mid-90s. Since then, Sand Hill Foundation has provided consistent support for middle school and college-bound high school youth, along with capital support as new sites were developed.

From 2010-2016, BGCP was a key member of the Silicon Valley Out-of-School-Time Collaborative, an initiative for executive directors led by Sand Hill Foundation in partnership with Sobrato Philanthropies, Packard Foundation, and SV2. Through this collaborative, BGCP embedded social-emotional learning curriculum and program quality measures into daily practices alongside eight other local youth-serving organizations.

Most recently, as BGCP undertook another expansion merger in 2023, Sand Hill Foundation provided multi-year support for new programs in South San Francisco and Daly City – helping to enable a 71% increase in students who are accessing academic programs, mental health services, and extracurricular enrichment activities free of cost. BGCP is now the largest expanded-learning provider in San Mateo County.