Soccer and Community Impact

We will once again be hosting our annual fundraiser — joining together friends of the Foundation at the Golden Gardens Bathhouse this year on December 19th at 6pm.

Hear directly from Foundation and Club leadership on our impact in 2024 as well as exciting plans for the New Year - including a special announcement!

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Mission

The Ballard FC Foundation is the social impact arm of Ballard FC, North Seattle’s USL League Two soccer club. The Foundation serves as the strategic umbrella for all community work undertaken by the club both during the season and throughout the year, focused on free soccer camps and clinics in Western Washington as well as an innovative multi-sport academy model focused on holistic youth wellness.

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What we do

Soccer is a powerful tool for social impact, and a soccer club provides a big platform.

Free & Focused: All programming and equipment provided through the Foundation will be focused on marginalized communities and be provided at no cost to participating youth. We estimate we will reach 1,000 youth in 2023.

Quality Training: Foundation programs will feature age- and skill-appropriate, high quality sport training and other programming. Our programs will be developed by experts and implemented by trained, community-aligned staff.

Leverage Ballard FC Club, Players & Coaches: Ballard FC has assembled a group of players and coaches representing our community’s past, present and future professional soccer heroes. We will leverage the status of these heroes to reach and impact youth in Seattle.

The Ballard FC Foundation uses soccer as a bridge, providing both access and connection in our community in addition to offering support to key partners. We will build an innovative, high-impact program strategy in close partnership with the communities we intend to serve.

Our Impact Pillars

Access

Free soccer training and equipment provided at 1-day clinics, multi-day camps, multi-week impact academy (with multiple sports, nutrition, literacy and mental health elements)

Connection

We will lead a program to bring non-local players with powerful impact stories to Ballard FC and build community by involving Ballard FC fans in social impact projects (such as beach clean-ups or Foundation partner volunteer outings)

Proud to be expanding our soccer ball donation to two new program partners: Jane Addams Middle School Girl’s teams and Jamhuri United. It’s an honor to work with you all and help provide the best resources possible to our youth - from Meadowbrook to Federal Way — soccer is for all 💛

And that’s a wrap on CLR 2024! 🙌 Our weekly sports and leadership camp in partnership with @clracademy_ has finished up a second successful summer! ❤️🧡💛 We are proud to have offered sessions every Saturday this summer to youth participants to expose them to sports, leadership, mentorship, and good nutrition every step of the way. 📷: @blakedahlin

Our fall programming is in full swing! We’ll be leading ⚽️ clinics with our player coaches at two @clubinsider locations this fall - Rainier Vista and Ballard! As always our clinics are accessible for all skill levels and are completely free. We can’t wait to see you this fall! 🙌 Have a need in your neighborhood? Email freeclinics@goballardfc.com to start the conversation!

Shots from our CLR Academy this past summer 🙌 This camp is a weekly program we host in White Center every Saturday and teaches youth about leadership in their community through sport. We’re proud to partner with @clracademy_ to provide this free programming for kids in our greater community 💛 📷: @blakedahlin

🙏 for the ❤️ A sampling of thank you notes we’ve received this summer from youth impacted at clinics led by coaches Charlie, Alex, and Cameron ❤️🧡💛

Highlights from our school ambassador program this past season 😍 Player ambassadors from our first team met with numerous schools across the region to inspire change, talk about life as a footballer, and of course have a good kick around ☺️ In total we met with over 350 youth across middle and elementary schools in King County this past summer 🙌 Thank you to our generous donors whose support goes directly to programming, such as this, and allows our players to represent the club so well 🤝🧡

Join us September 15th for the @kcplayequity Play Day! Registration and more info is available on their bio ☺️

Our CLR Academy is in full swing this summer 🙌 Led by @coach_mario_valderrama and Coach @carlking74, we are once again providing free programming every Saturday 10am - 12pm in White Center for youth. In partnership with @clracademy_ our youth receive sports training, learn leadership skills, and have access to healthy snacks and drinks throughout the program - all summer long. All are welcome and we hope to see you soon! 💛🙏

Shots from last week’s Foundation youth camp at Georgetown Playfields 🧡⚽️ We proudly served 78 campers from a wide range of neighborhoods and backgrounds across King County — all at no cost to them — as all of our Foundation programming is free for youth, and always will be. Thank you to our @goballardfc coaches, players, and staff for making this an amazing experience for all our youth participants - and of course a massive thank you to all those who donate to help make this work possible! 🙌

Thrilled to be bringing back our marquee program in partnership with @clracademy_ and @culturesunitedfc this summer! Learn more and sign up if you’re at either of these schools for a summer full of enriching programming!