About Us/Our Mission – Eagle Rock Yacht Club

The Yacht Club believes that every individual has the responsibility to be involved in their community. Through dodgeball, civic service, relationships with rec centers and our youth, The Yacht Club hopes to inspire you to pursue the common good.

What we do, on the daily…

It starts with dodgeball.

We’re an adult dodgeball league, a circle of friends, an army of do-gooders. We establish and run adult dodgeball leagues while partnering with the local rec center to develop original programs for children in under-resourced communities in Los Angeles and San Diego. Our programs—Yacht Grub (kids cooking), Yacht Plot (community gardening), Yacht Pix (kids photography) and our flagship program, Yacht Crew (kids dodgeball)—have been created to provide youth with fun, safe and creative experiences that go beyond what they might have access to at school. And we are able to do this by drawing from the single greatest resource at our disposal—our players!

Why we do this

The Yacht Club believes civic engagement—feelings of responsibility toward the common good—is inherent in all of us.

The Yacht Club provides an outlet and vehicle for connectedness through dodgeball, weekly meetups, and social gatherings. But we’d like to think we do much more than that. We also provide the initial opportunities for our players to become active citizens and volunteers. Over time, our players become more invested in the neighborhoods where they play and want to do more good for them; it’s our flywheel toward the common good.

The Yacht Club isn’t just another dodgeball league.

Where does the money go?

Believe it or not, hosting community dodgeball games isn’t exactly a lucrative venture, which is why we’re set up as a non-profit organization.

Sure we have your typical expenses: rent, league supplies, insurance, etc. However, we aim to stretch our dollars to support our public parks as much as possible. As such, a majority of membership dues go directly into our city parks via gym permit fees and mini-grants to recreation centers for various summer camp activities for local youth.

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