Development and Special Events
Marketing: We’re going to
need another trophy shelf in
the board room! We’ll be
bringing home FIVE national
Marketing &
Communications Awards
from the Boys & Girls Clubs
of America national
conference in May. We won
the Silver Award for
Comprehensive Marketing
Strategy and Gold Awards for
Publications, Special Events,
best use of the “Great Futures
Start Here” branding
statement, and best use of the
Blue Door. We will receive
$4,000 for our efforts.
This has been a very busy
month for the marketing/
publications side of things as
we prepare to promote our
summer programs. We’ve
developed the summer
program book, summer
contracts, summer program
flyers, a bus safety brochure
and more. Our spring
newsletter is also in progress.
We sent press releases for
spring break, new violin
classes, golf tournament, and
Twilight. The OC Register is
interviewing Tanya and two
children who have received
scholarships for their arts
skills and we hope to see an
article in the paper in the next
few weeks.
BGCA Activities: We
finished up our participation
in the National Youth
Outcomes Initiative. We
should get the results of our
surveys in the fall. We also
finished up coordinating the
Pacific Region’s Digital Arts
festival. Throughout that
project, we recruited expert
judges for six artistic
categories, monitored entries
for appropriateness and
copyright infringement, made
sure judges completed their
scoring on time, helped
judges with technical
problems, and submitted
nominations for winners
based on judge’s scores. We
are proud that one of our
Huntington Beach Branch
members was a regional
winner for graphic design!
Grants: We received
$25,000 from the LA Times
Family Fund for our Oak
View summer reading
program. This a $10,000
increase over last year due to
the program’s great success
last summer. 2nd Harvest
approved our requests for
summer food programs at
both Twilight and Oak View.
We sent requests to Wells
Fargo Foundation (Twilight),
the OC Community
Foundation’s Marshall Fund
(summer arts programs at
Twilight and Oak View), the
Orange County Register
Campership program (Oak
View summer program),
Deacon Charitable Fund
(Twilight), and Rite Aid
Foundation (Sports). We
also submitted reports/
invoices for OCTA, OJP, City
of Fountain Valley, Golden
West College and Children’s
Bureau grants.
Building Dreams
Campaign: We talked with
our program officer at the
Weingart Foundation. We
will be unable to submit two
separate requests for each
phase of the campaign. So,
we can either make a request
for the school age club only,
or we can make a request for
both phases together. We
must have 50-75% of the total
cost of the phase(s) for which
we are requesting support
already donated at the time
we make our request. We
sent a letter of inquiry to the
Schlinger Foundation.
Our next capital campaign
fundraiser, the Pins for Kids
Bowling Tournament, is
coming up on August 2nd.
Registration is $250 per team
of four. If you’d like to
register a team to bowl,
please email Art at
[email protected] or give him
a call at 714-531-2582.
Events: Our golf
tournament is coming up
quickly on May 14th. If you
have not already registered,
send in your registration form
or talk to Art or Tanya to
reserve your spot.
If you’d like to volunteer on
the day of the event, please
let Art know. Over these
next few weeks, we’ll be
getting together all the
materials you see at the event,
from the little things like
mulligans, to signage
honoring our sponsors, to
raffle and auctions.
We are also working
steadily toward our October
4th “Great Futures Start Here”
event. We have sent out
sponsor solicitation letters.
This is the perfect time to get
in touch with your personal
contacts and ask them to
make a commitment to
support the Club through this
event. Sponsors and guests
can register online at
bgchv.com/greatfutures
GREAT
FUTURES
START
HERE.
BGCHV Hits Gold!
Next week, BGCHV Club
staff and board members will
be heading to San Francisco
for the Boys & Girls Clubs of
America Annual Conference.
I am pleased to be joined by a
great group of staff and board
members that are eager to learn
and grow by the experience. In
total, 9 staff and 5 board
members will be attending.
What a great representation for
our Club!
While we are at the
Conference, we will be
recognized for winning 5
(MAC) Marketing and
Communications Awards.
The Club will take home 4
GOLD awards in the
categories of:
Blue Door
Great Futures Start Here
Publications
BGCA Initiatives &
Special Events
AND 1 SILVER award for:
Comprehensive Marketing
Strategy (Big MAC)
We are especially proud of
this achievement because all of
our graphics-related work is
done in-house by our
Development Department.
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April was a month full of
activities and celebrations!
Curriculum has included
spring and the letters “V” and
“W” for the older children.
The kids dressed up wacky
for Wacky Wednesday and
had a special watermelon
treat! Seeds were planted
and the kids took care of
them and watched them
grow. Staff has been getting
very creative in their ways of
teaching the alphabet. Our
oldest age group of 4-5 year
olds have embraced and
welcomed a new participant
in our program, Gaige.
Gaige is a special needs child
who is bussed over to us by
the Ocean View school
district bus and requires a one
on one aid to work with her.
The YMCA Y Inclusion
project pays for this one on
one aid so Gaige can attend
our center and work on her
social skills along with
building relationships with
her peers. So far it has been
a great learning experience
for all involved!
On April 22nd some of the
classrooms will be
celebrating Earth day by
cleaning up our schools
environment. The children
will be walking around the
center picking up trash and
will be discussing keeping
our earth clean by recycling.
Robert Mayer Child
Development Preschool, HB April 7th – 11th we will
celebrated Week of The Young
Child; this year’s quote again
was “Early Years Are Learning
Years!” According to the
National Association for the
Education of Young Children
(NAEYC), the purpose for the
week of the young child is…
“To focus public attention on
the needs of young children
and their families and to
recognize the early childhood
programs and services that
meet those needs.” We
celebrated all week long with a
variety of activities done in the
classroom like creating
banners, making bookmarkers
and kites, and also reading
quotes parents wrote about why
they think their child is special.
We also offered a special
mother figure and child
breakfast, “Muffins with Mom”
and a separate day for “Donuts
with Dad.” The week
ended with a phenomenal
carnival where we did
crafts, played carnival
games and had clowns do
face painting.
April 24th and 25th we
will be ending the month
by taking our annual
school portraits.
ClubHouse Academy, HB The month of April has
been a productive month for
the Athletic Department as
we kick-off our 2014 Spring
Leagues for Basketball and
Arena Soccer.
Our basketball league has
been very busy and
entertaining with games that
run from Monday through
Thursday. We have a full
league with 341 players in 43
teams spread across 5
divisions. Our Arena Soccer
league games are played on
Friday nights and Saturday
mornings; and we have 226
players on 27 teams in 5
divisions. They play their
games in the Kingston
Branch and Huntington
Beach gymnasiums, as well
as the Huntington Beach
Branch outdoor soccer arena.
All of this is made possible
by all our volunteer coaches.
We truly appreciate all their
hard work and dedication for
all our members.
At the ClubHouse
Academy, we plan to open a
brand new violin class that
will begin on May 1st, 2014.
The class will be offered every
Thursday and Saturday. The
instructor for this class
specializes in teaching young
and beginning students as well
as in preparing more
experienced students for further
advancement and achievement.
The ClubHouse Theater
program is hard at work
preparing for its upcoming
production, The Nifty Fifties.
We have 4 cast lists with a total
of 95 members. The Nifty
Fifties will be performed in late
June /early July.
Our ClubHouse Dance
program is also preparing for
their upcoming dance recital at
the Saigon Performing Arts
Center. Ms. Karina’s classes
will perform A Whole New
World on Wednesday, June 25,
2014, and Ms. Allison’s classes
will perform From the Page to
the Stage on Thursday, June
26, 2014. It will be an exciting
event and our members and
families are looking forward to
participate in the shows. For
more info, contact CHA.
Kingston Branch, Fountain Valley Page 3
We have been very busy
this March and April here at
the Boys & Girls Clubs of
Huntington Valley, Kingston
Branch! We hosted Boys &
Girls Clubs Week, had a St.
Patrick’s Day Carnival, had a
Kindergartener’s St.
Patrick’s Day scavenger
hunt, and we participated in
the Image Makers national
program contest.
Every day we had a new
theme for our members to
participate in. For example,
World-Wide Wednesday was
dedicated to celebrating
every member’s heritage.
Members were encouraged to
wear clothing to represent
their own unique culture. We
also had our very popular
Rocket Challenge. The entire
week we had the members
collaborate on creating and
designing a rocket out of a
two liter soda bottle. On
Friday, we launched all the
rockets! The members loved
seeing how far and high
some of them could go.
Our annual St. Patrick’s
Day Carnival was also a
great success! With tons of
new carnival games, face
painting, and relay races, the
kids enjoyed a sunny day
outside. We also created a
staff challenge for this
carnival. The teens and staff
participated in a relay race to
challenge both parties. The
teens came out victorious this
time.
Our St. Patrick’s Day
scavenger hunt was a
wonderful surprise for our
Spring is in the air and our
club is growing wild with
activities. In March we had a
Spring Music Recital. Our
children preformed nine
songs from past and present
artist’s to the delight of their
families and friends. Our
music program is a huge hit
with our members and
continues to grow. Our next
recital will be in the summer.
Throughout the course of the
year we receive a lot of
volunteer service. The last
volunteer event was with
Experian Consumer Services.
Experian’s Digital Marketing
Team, consisting of 20 of its
team members, arrived
ready, willing and able for
any tasks. For two solid
hours the Experian team deep
cleaned every room in our
club. Wahoo! After they
finished the deep clean the
Experian team ran fun games
and activities for our
members for the next hour.
What a great experience for
all parties. This will a great
prototype for volunteer
experiences to come.
Thank you Experian.
Keeping with the breadth
of volunteerism and
community service, our
Torch Club did a beach
clean-up. Ten club members
descended upon Beach
Boulevard and Pacific Coast
Highway to make our
community better place to
live. With gloves on and
bags in hand our members
went to town picking up all
the trash they could. For two
hours they cleaned up our
local beach to make it nice
for the next beach visitors.
Huntington Beach Branch
surprised when they
entered their room that
day. A leprechaun
made a mess in their
room and left clues to
encourage them to
search for him! They
solved each clue, which
took them all around
the club and finally
ended back into their
Kinder room where
there was a pot of gold
waiting for them! Even
though our kinders
didn't catch the sneaky
leprechaun, they had a great time
trying to find him.
Oak View Branch, Huntington Beach Page 4
Spring Break is approaching,
which means Twilight
members have been busy
with presentations and
activities. Twilight parents
received an informative
presentation on stress
management, which helped
them understand the
importance of balancing their
lives and limiting their
amount of stress. Parents
enjoyed the presentation and
were grateful for the new life
skills they learned. With
Easter being around the
corner, preschool teachers
were getting activities and
lessons ready for the spring
season. This month the
teachers focused on the oval
shape. They incorporated
eggs to familiarize the
children with the oval shape.
The children at Twilight have
continued to learn more and
more and we will continue to
provide an educational
environment for our
members. In the past month,
Twilight has continued to
work with Surf City Rotary
Club who provides the food
program for the families. The
food program continues to
serve an average of 80 – 90
snacks bags a week. They
recently surprised the
families with peanut butter
and jelly jars. It was great to
see a smile on the parents’
faces when they received
their food. Rotary Club
continues to be a great
service to the families.
Twilight
Education,
Golden West
College Campus
members. It was great to
witness the children excited
to accomplish such
prestigious feat together and
with a great attitude. Lastly,
two weeks ago, we had our
basketball championships; it
was a great opportunity to
teach the students the
importance of good
sportsmanship. For many
kids, it was the first time
they had won on a team and
for others it was their first
time being upset over a loss,
so there were many
conversations over the
course of the week with
students on the meaning
behind wins and losses.
Oak View held many events
through this last month,
many which brought a lot of
excitement for the kids.
Boys and Girls Club Week
proved to be very memorable
for the kids as they were
honored for academics, art,
and community service. This
week allowed them to reflect
on what they were doing to
fulfill the mission of Boys
and Girls Club, many
realizing that they needed to
find an avenue to excel in.
During this week, we also
participated in the Wanna
Play World Record
Challenge, which proved to
be an exciting event for the
Learning Center Child Development
Preschool, FV
Enrollment has been steady
for the last couple of months;
in the last few weeks we have
conducted many tours for all
our age groups and our
waiting list is starting to grow
in many of the classrooms.
This month the children,
teachers, and administrators
have been busy planning and
celebrating the Week of the
Young Child. The children
did different activities during
the week; on Tuesday we had
“Muffins for Mom” and on
Thursday we had “Doughnuts
for Dads”, we had a great
turnout and parents left
happy and very thankful. To
end the celebration, we had
our “Week of the Young
Child” carnival on Friday,
April 11. Parent Committee
members prepared the crafts
for us at home and on the day
of the event we had 32 parent
volunteers, three clowns from
the Volunteer Clowns of
Orange County, and our very
own Mr. John Pham and Sem
Ibrahim came to help with
the carnival. There were
many activities, including
face painting, glitter art
tattoos, arts and crafts, and a
very special “Petting Zoo”
with pony rides. The
younger children had their
very own Week of the Young
Child carnival with arts and
crafts and a Bounce House.
It was a very crazy and fun
filled week for the staff,
parents, and children at the
Learning Center.