Building bridges in our community through the beautiful game

Free soccer camp returns this summer at Georgetown Playfield! Click the banner above or link below to create a Playmetrics account and read more about this free community program.

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Mission

The Bridges United Foundation is the social impact arm of Ballard FC and Salmon Bay FC, North Seattle’s USL League Two and USL W League soccer clubs. The Foundation serves as the strategic umbrella for all community work undertaken by the clubs 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 of our programming is free for youth participants and focuses in traditionally underserved and marginalized areas of King County. Last year we served thousands of youth in communities from White Center, to Georgetown, to Renton, to at home in Ballard.

Quality Training: Foundation programs feature age- and skill-appropriate, high quality sport training and other programming. Our programs are developed by experts and implemented by trained, community-aligned staff, including members of our first teams.

Leverage Ballard FC/Salmon Bay FC Players & Coaches: Ballard FC and Salmon Bay FC have assembled a group of players and coaches representing our community’s past, present, and future professional soccer heroes. We leverage the status of these heroes to reach and impact youth across Seattle and greater King County.

The Bridges United Foundation uses soccer as a bridge, providing both access and connection in our community in addition to offering support to key partners. We build an innovative, high-impact program strategy in close partnership with the communities we 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 bring non-local players with powerful impact stories to Ballard FC/Salmon Bay FC and build community by involving fans in social impact projects (such as beach clean-ups or Foundation partner volunteer outings)

Free Foundation Camp ⛺️ ⚽️ Our annual FREE Summer Youth Camp is back for another summer! This year, we will have five days of free soccer programming at Georgetown Playfield from June 29th to July 3rd. Campers can sign up for full or half day camps. Learn more about the foundation, and register for camp at bridgesunitedfoundation.org #BridgeTheGap | #UpTheBridges

We’ve been providing a free weekly soccer clinic in partnership with @famfirstrenton for two and a half years. And now we’re excited to grow this program with clinics specifically for girls and led by @salmonbayfc coaching staff this spring! See you on the pitch! ⚽️🏟️

2025: What a year 💫 This year, we provided free soccer camps and clinics to over 1,500 youth across King County - because every kid deserves the chance to play outside freely.

What a night!!! Thank you to all our amazing supporters for making this the biggest and best Goala yet. Congrats to all of our auction winners and thank you all for the support. The future is bright in our community ⭐️

At the clubs and Foundation, we take pride in working with our local business partners to help advance play equity. Thank you to our amazing Goala sponsors and all of our partners who are supporting us this year! 🎟️ will sell out soon for Thursday - we’ll see you there! @wombi.us @theballardcut @orgulloajenotequila @vinofc_ @thekitecafeseattle @ballardblossom @mainstayprovisions @stoupbrewing @frsclipper @roughandtumblepub @crystalmountain @nordicmuseum @sarah_robbins @pecadobueno @soccerpostnorthwest @seattlekraken @bakers.seattle @slimgoodybar @othercoastcafe

Get your 🎟️ now before they’re gone! And we’ll see you next week!

We’re close to the big day - and that means our auction is almost set! Thank you to our amazing friends of the Foundation for these incredible prizes to help power our programming into 2026! Grab your ticket to the Goala today for the chance to win an amazing experience and we’ll see you on the 11th!

In 2025 we built bridges. Thank you to all who have supported our non-profit work. On this #givingtuesday please consider supporting our work to help it continue in 2026 💛 givebutter.com/goala2025

Coach Cam Cruz was Mic’d Up this summer at our Foundation Camp ⚽️ 🎙️ Listen in as he narrates one of the scrimmages We also want to wish Coach Cam and his @uw_msoccer teammates good luck as they head into the Sweet Sixteen this weekend! #UpTheBridges

That’s right! We’ll have multiple sets of World Cup tickets for Seattle matches this summer at the Goala. You could even win tickets to the @usmnt match via raffle at the event! Join us Dec 11 and get your Goala 🎟️ today