Success4Kids was formed in 2001 by a group of Phoenix business people who recognized a need for disadvantaged youth to participate in a physical, goal-oriented activity after school. Few of these youth participated in inter-scholastic sports and were at risk to make poor choices with their free time. School organized sports programs are competitive and expensive; by their very nature, they exclude the less gifted athletes. That population is the one Success4Kids targets: the ones left behind. Today, Success4Kids’s after school handball program has grown so much in popularity that students are now choosing the S4K program over other after-school sports such as football.

Success4Kids is currently run by Executive Director, Rachel Fleming.  Rachel graduated from Dickinson College with a degree in English, and came aboard S4K in November of 2008. She brought with her years of experience in program management and working with children in athletic settings.