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Development & Special Events - A busy month!
Grants: We sent requests to Draper Family Fund (Oak View summer program), BGCA (FV Triple Play Leadership Club) and we will be submitting a request to Wells Fargo by the end of the month. We also submitted reports/invoices for OCTA and OJP, including an invoice for the deposit we put down for the five new school buses we have ordered. We received $15,000 for the Oak View summer program from LA Times Family Fund and we are talking with the OC Register Campership Fund about getting additional support for the program. We have also learned from OCTA that we will be eligible for funding in the 2013-2014 grant year and we are working on developing a plan to request additional support for transportation. We continue to work with the Orange County Children & Families Commission on our new grant for an Americorps VISTA member to join our team for volunteer recruitment and management focused on programs for children ages 0-5. We are interviewing now and hope to have a candidate selected by the end of the month. The VISTA member will start in August. We are now in our final quarter of our $1 million service payback for the $750,000 grant that we received a few years ago from the Children & Families Commission in support of the Robert Mayer Child Development Preschool. We are looking forward to the completion of reporting for this grant and the end of the need for a letter of credit from Independence Bank to secure the grant pending our final invoice for the April-June 2013 quarter.
Building Dreams Campaign: We received a contribution of $32,000 from Surf City Rotary
from the proceeds of Surf City Splash, bringing their grand total donated to the capital campaign to more than $200,000! Our next capital campaign fundraiser, the Pins for Kids Bowling Tournament, sponsored by FV Kiwanis, is coming up on August 3rd. This is an affordable fundraiser, with registration at $250 per team of four, so it’s less than $75 per person. If you’d like to register a team to bowl, please email Art at art@bgchv.com or give him a call at 714-531-2582. If you have items to donate for the raffle or auction, please drop them by or let Jamie know they will be coming.
Events: Our big focus this month was the JMG Security Systems Annual Benefit Golf Tournament. We had 269 golfers, nearly selling out both courses and the event was a big success. Thank you to all who golfed or helped out with the tournament. We are still waiting for final numbers, but we think it was a great success! October and our Annual Benefit Dinner and Auction are coming up sooner than you think – October 12th will be here before we know it! Please continue to reach out to your contacts to get them to commit to a table sponsorship or an auction item donation. Sponsors and guests can register at www.bgchv.com/greatfutures.
Marketing: This was a busy month for summer program materials. New contracts, program books, and promotional flyers and postcards were created and distributed. Our materials go home with thousands of kids in 30 local schools and get mailed to more than 3,000 homes. We sent out a press release regarding Surf City Splash which resulted in a nice article with an online photo
gallery in the OC Register. We sent out a press release regarding the marketing awards as well and FV Living Magazine will do a piece in their next issue. We will send a release by the end of the month JMG golf tournament once a final amount raised has been determined. We also wrote a column for the Huntington Beach Wave that served as a companion piece to an article about childhood obesity in Orange County. Our column promoted the Club’s programs that help combat childhood obesity by keeping kids active and healthy.
BGCHV.com
The Club Brings
Home the Gold!Plus two Silver and
one Bronze Awards
at the coveted MAC (Marketing & Communications)
Awards Luncheon!
At the Boys & Girls Clubs of
America national conference, our
Club accepted four major
awards for our efforts in Marketing
and Communications:
Gold for Comprehensive Marketing
Strategy, Silver for Special Events,
Silver for Great Futures Start Here,
and Bronze for Interactive and
Online Marketing.
Kingston Branch, Fountain Valley May 2013 Page 2
Robert Mayer Child Development Preschool, HB
It has been a fun and busy
month at the Kingston Branch.
Our Kinders have been learning
about Dinosaurs this month,
starting the Dinosaur unit with a
lesson about “amber.” During
that activity, the Kinders were
hard at work sanding down and
exploring the amber to find out if
it contained million year old bugs
or other artifacts! The Kinders
then worked together during
their Archaeology Dig to
excavate old dinosaur bones.
The Wind Power Club at the
Kingston Branch has been a
total success. Our younger
Kingston members have been
learning about renewable
energy, and have been working
together to assemble a wind
turbine complete with electric
generator, adjustable rotors, and
wind speed indicators. Our
members have been meeting
every Friday afternoon and have
conducted over 20 experiments
with their own wind turbine.
During each experiment, our
members have the opportunity
to learn about the physics of
force and motion as it applies to
wind power technology. Way to
go to our young scientists!
Lastly, our teens are taking an
initiative and making a pledge to
c o n t i n u e l e a r n i n g a n d
completing school and making
goals for college. “Diplomas 2
Degrees” is a teen program
that meets once a week where
our members are learning
about the importance of staying
in school and making a
difference in their community.
This month they were learning
about our nation’s statistics on
high school dropouts and the
effects it has not just in the
i nd i v idua l s bu t i n t he
communities when there is a
high dropout rate. Our teens
took these lessons seriously and
all took a pledge to stay in
May was a month full of
t r a in ing , ac t i v i t i e s and
celebrations! Curriculum has
included spring and the letters
“V” and “W” for the pre-k
children dressing up wacky for
Wacky Wednesday and the kids
making and eating worms in dirt
which consists of pudding,
crushed cookies and gummy
worms! Staff has been getting
very creative in their ways of
teaching the alphabet. This
month some of the classrooms
will be making Earth’s out of
blue paper mache balloons and
they will add green handprints to
the balloons. The children will
be walking around the center
picking up trash and will be
discussing keeping our earth
clean by recycling.
Recently we took our annual
school portraits! Our “Parent
Committee” and staff were part
of the backdrop selection
process. We enjoyed two days
filled with children dressed in
their best outfits and wearing big
smiles.
Every year we celebrate the
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 handprint flowers and
birdhouses, 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 held for
the first time at our center where
Learning Center staff, children
and parents joined us.
May 6-10, 2013 we celebrated
Teacher Appreciation Week!
Staff were showered with words
of kindness for their hard work
and thoughtful homemade gifts
from the children.
The week ended with a delicious
pot luck put on by the families. The
month of May the pre-k staff
incorporated “Community Helpers”
into our curriculum. The children
decided they wanted to write thank
you cards to the firefighters that
help keep us safe. On May 10th the
pre-k children walked to the Murdy
Fire Station and delivered the thank
you cards, toured the fire house
and got to see the exciting features
of a fire truck! Our second set of
parent/teacher conferences took
place May 6th–17th. Staff completed
the Desired Results Assessment on
all the children and we met with
parents to review areas the children
grew in this past school year.
Portfolios that tracked the children’s
growth were put together and also
given to the parents.
Page 3 Twilight Education Project, HB
We had an informative month of
April for the parents, children and
staff of BGCHV-Twilight. In April
parents received valuable
information and were able to take
part in the presentation, “How to
Raise a Financially Smart Child.”
This presentation provided
parents with tools that could help
them and their children, better
manage their finances. The
presentation was a success to the
extent that parents were excited
about using the information
received and also requested more
presentations from the same
speaker.
On the children's side, six
graders through eighth graders
were able to participate in a
“Media Literacy” presentation that
taught them how to think about
information received through the
media. It was exciting to observe
the children interact throughout
the presentation and gain a better
understanding of the role media
plays in their life.
Our Twilight staff teachers
have been diligent about
developing fun filled and learning
activities for the preschoolers.
For example, during the last
week of April the teachers
focused on creating an activity
for the children that would help
make this year memorable for
their moms. Activities included
making hand-prints, shape cut-
outs and incorporating what they
learned about flower petals. The
month of April came to a finish by
acknowledging our wonderful
and hardworking teachers during
Teacher Appreciation Week.
ClubHouse Academy, FV This month at the ClubHouse
Academy has been a busy one!
First, we are preparing for our
upcoming Spring Recital. We
currently have over 150 children
signed up to perform tap, jazz,
hip hop, ballet, and preschool
dance numbers. There are so
many participants this time that
we have had to add a third act to
a c c o m m o d a t e a l l t h e
performers!
In other ClubHouse Academy
class news, the gymnastics
program is gearing up for their
semi-annual showcase event. At
least fifty of our skilled gymnasts
will perform floor, balance beam,
and uneven bar routines to a
crowd of their peers and
families. Our cheerleading
squad had the opportunity to
perform at some of the
basketball games, which was a
great way for them to show off
their team spirit and dance
moves during the basketball
game halftime.
The Spring sports season is
also just wrapping up. At the
beginning of the month, our
sports leagues participated in
photo day, and we had an
excellent turn out of kids! More
than sixty basketball and soccer
teams are just wrapping up a
successful season and finishing
up their playoff games.
In other sports news, our
athletic league at Oak View has
just completed its first season,
which was a complete success!
We had a great turn out of kids,
with six total teams that had the
opportunity to compete against
each other while learning basic
basketball skills, the importance
of sportsmanship, and how to be
a team player. It was a great
opportunity to provide a new
experience for many of these
kids, with the league being
extremely low cost and located
right in the center of their
neighborhood.
Another busy month for the
children and staff, we started
the month by celebrating
Teacher’s Appreciation Week
from May 7-11. The teachers
were very happy for all the
recognition that they received
from the parents. On Friday
May 11, the parents provided
lunch for all the staff and we had
food leftover for the rest of the
week. Children were busy
preparing gifts and cards for
Mother’s Day. On Friday, May
18, the Family Support Network,
for the sixth year, provided free
screening for the children at the
Learning Center and the
community. They
screened for seven
different areas, such
as speech, hearing,
vision, dental, mental
health, occupational
therapy, and physical
development. The
teachers have also
been working hard
filling out the DRDP-r
evaluation tool for the parent
conference that will take place
during the week of May 21-25.
Our enrollment continues to be
the same and we are looking
forward to summer.
Learning Center Child
Development Preschool, FV
Page 4 Huntington Beach Branch
Well first and foremost I would
like to thank the club for our
recent trip to the National
Conference in Orlando. It is
great to go and rub elbows with
like people to get new ideas and
a better understanding on club
life. I felt the sessions this year
were great and speakers like
Colin Powell, the Youths of the
Year, and the Hall of Fame
inductees were very
inspirational.
On April 19th we held a Family
Fun Night. This was a fantastic
night, over 50 families came to
the club to take
part in our
recreational
activities with their
children. We were
amazed by how
invested these
parents were in our
club and how much
fun they had
playing with their
children.
Our Torch club children planned a
park clean-up for Earth day.
Every member who was in
attendance that day helped to
give McCallen Park a face lift.
This activity really built a sense of
camaraderie and went a long way
to develop community spirit.
Every spring we run a carnival
but this year was something
special. We ran
our regular
activities and
games but this
year we added an
egg relay
competition. Our
kids went
absolutely crazy
for this event.
There was so
much cheering
and fun at the egg relay that we
ran races during the whole
carnival. Our kids were all in. It
looks like we will be adding this
event to every carnival in the
future.
Oak View Branch, HB
The enthusiasm and positive
energy continues to stay
consistent at Oak View. Our
members had a blast participating
in all the events offered at the
Club; National Boys & Girls Club
Week, Earth Day, and a special
puppet show presented by the
Red Cross. Oak View held its first
annual Boys and Girls Club of
America Week in April that
included a wide variety of special
events and activities for our
members to participate in. It
al lowed our members to
understand, embrace and
appreciate the mission of the
Boys and Girls Club. Our staff
planned daily challenges such as
a water balloon toss and Minute
to Win it challenges that resulted
in all members joining together to
p r o m o te g o o d
s p o r t s m a n s h i p .
Boys and Girls Club
week was extremely
successful, fun and
educational and
meaningful for both
our members and
staff. Also in April,
the Red Cross
hosted a puppet
show for our members. Our
members got the chance to learn
about Safety Drills, by using
Sesame Street puppets. Songs
were taught to
help members
know what to do
during a fire, an
earthquake and
how to safely get
out of a burning
b u i l d i n g .
Continuing with
o u r A p r i l
activities, Oak
View celebrated
Earth Day on
April 22nd. The
members learned the importance
of recycling. Club members
participated in decorating our
new recycle bin and created a
Promise Mural to the Earth.