EVENTS The JMG Security Systems Golf

Tournament was on May 16th.

It was a sell-out of BOTH

courses at MileSquare Golf

Course and we are excited to

have one of the most successful

tournaments we’ve had in a few

years!

Next up is Chili at the Beach

on June 16, 11am to 6pm, Main

Street, HB. The Business

Improvement District (BID) is

hosting their annual event and

has chosen BGVHC as their

charity. We need volunteers to

man tables selling chili tasting

tickets. There will be three

tables, 2 volunteers each, from

10:30am to 3:30pm. Other

volunteers will be needed during

the event which may include

pouring beer at the Beer Garden

and general runners/helpers.

Please let me know if you can

volunteer.

After that we will be preparing

for the Pins for Kids Bowling

Tournament, which will be held

onAugust 4th. Proceeds will

benefit the capital campaign.

Start rounding up a group of

your friends forthis fun night! To

sign up, call Jamie at 714-593-

0753, ext. 109.

As always, we continue to

work toward our Annual Benefit

Dinner & Auction. The 2012

theme is “Great Futures Start

Here.” We are pleased to

announce that CJ Wilson,

Angels newly recruited lefty

pitcher will be honored at our

event. He is truly a testament of

our Great Futures theme. To

date nearly $143,000 is

committed for table sales and

cash donations, working towards

our goal of $228,000. Thanks

for all you’ve done to get these

commitments and we appreciate

your continued hard work! We

have a good start on auction

items, but a long way to go over

the next five months. We have

items valued at about $25,000

now. Typically, by auction night,

the total value of all auction

items is $140,000-$150,000.

So, please keep working your

contacts and getting those

auction items donated.

The ImageMakers regional

competition was held in our

Kingston Branch gym on

Monday, April 30th, with an

open house on the afternoon of

Sunday, April 29th. We were

thrilled to discover that three

kids from our Kingston Branch

were among the 20 winners who

will advance to the national

competition. The judges got to

meet them right away and

enjoyed talking photography

with the kids. The winners will

be featured in an upcoming

article in Fountain Valley Living

Magazine. (Winning Kingston

Branch photos and essay are

featured on the back of this

report.)

GRANTS

Last month we submitted

proposals to the Angels

Baseball Foundation (Twilight),

the Klein Family Foundation

(Twilight), Marshall Fund

(ClubHouse Theatre) and

Hyundai (computers),. Reports

were submitted for our OJP

grant, our OCTA grant and the

Marshall Fund. We received

payments from OJP, OCTA and

the City of Fountain Valley

totaling about $12,000.

MARKETING We sent our first electronic

version of our print newsletter to

more than 5,000 parents and

donors. This will become

standard practice for each

quarterly newsletter. Fountain

Valley Living Magazine helped

promote the golf tournament and

the Image Makers contest.

Orange County Register printed

an article about the Image

Makers contest

OTHER ACTIVITIES Laura came in from Iowa for a

visit to the Club and to

participate in the Boys &Girls

Clubs of America national

conference in San Diego. All

three development staff

members were able to attend

the conference. It was a good

experience for the team to

spend some time together and

to get some fresh ideas and

inspiration at the conference.

We were accepted into the

Combined Federal Campaign

(government version of United

Way) turned in our staff’s United

Way campaign pledges. The

staff committed more than

$5,000 to United Way this year.

This is the most raised in the

last few years and many of

those pledges are designated

for BGCHV. The Club will have

a team in United Way’s“Walk

United” event at Angels Stadium

on June 9th. If can support the

team or join as a walker, visit

tinyurl.com/teambgchv

Development & Special Events - How we raise the money! JMG Golf Tournament

Kingston Branch, Fountain Valley May 2012 Page 2

We started out the month of

April by celebrating Boys & Girls

Clubs of America Week. We had

different theme days –True Blue

Monday, Pajama Day, Crazy

Sock Day, and we ended the

week with a Bang! Our club kids

worked very hard making rockets

all week long, and on Friday we

helped the kids launch their

rockets outside. Our members

also participated in a Team

Dodgeball Tournament, built a

BGC city out of Legos, created

membership cards, and helped

create a BGCHV Mascot out of

clay!

Go Green with the Kingston

Branch! We had a fun filled week

last month celebrating Earth Day.

Our club kids learned about the

importance of recycling and

reusing. They had fun learning

how take trash and transform it

into something new they could

reuse. Our Club Members helped

out by planting new flowers out

on the playground and helped

create a bigger club garden! Our

teens even collected cardboard

boxes, old newspapers, and

plastic bottles, creating a new

clothing line called “Teens Go

Green.” They showed off their

new look with an Earth Day

Fashion Show for all of club kids

to see!

Learning Center Child Development Preschool, FV Another busy month for the

children and staff, we started the

month by celebrat ing the

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

evaluation tool for the parent

conference that will take place

during the week of May 21-25.

Our enrollment is staying strong

as we look forward to our first

summer in our new home.

Page 3 CJ Wilson AGREES to be Honorary Chair The Club is very pleased to

announce that the new Angels’

pitcher, CJ Wilson and Club

Alumnus has agreed to be named

as the Honorary Chair of our

2012 Annual Dinner and Auction.

The event theme, “Great Futures

Start Here” says it all when you

think of the journey CJ has taken

from a Club kid that loved sports

to where he is today.

Attending the event is up in the

air because the Angels may be in

post season. Of course, the Club

hopes that will happen, but if it

does, CJ has promised to provide

the Club with a video we can play

that evening. If CJ is in town,

then he will personally deliver the

words to the crowd.

The Club is proud to be

associated with CJ and has

plans to continue the relationship

with a special event to be

announced in 2013 designed to

support our Building Dreams

capital campaign.

A special thank you to Mike

Haynes for connecting the Club

to CJ and for his continued efforts

to build the relationship. Way to

go Mike!

ClubHouse Academy, Huntington Beach The month of May has been

great fun for the ClubHouse

Academy. It started with the

audition workshop held the first

Saturday of the month. This

time around we had 25 young

actors come in and work with

our instructors to learn the tricks

of the trade when it comes to

auditioning. They were able to

work on dance numbers,

choosing the right song to sing,

and learning how to read lines

with little preparation.

The following week, the

auditions were held for “The

Lady Pirates of Captain Bree,”

and the ClubHouse Theatre

reached a new milestone in the

acting program: with 136 total

kids, there are now six casts, the

most that the club has had yet!

The dance program has also

been very active this month.

Over 160 of our dancers had

been practicing for the past 2

months preparing for our spring

dance recital, working up to this

past Sunday’s recital. The stage

was set and the Kingston gym

hosted 750 friends and family to

watch the two shows. It was

great to see the gym filled to

capacity with folks happy to

watch the spectacle of six

genres of dance and over 30

unique performances. After the

show, the families gathered on

our playground to take pictures

and congratulate the dancers.

The sports leagues are rapidly

approaching the end of the

season. The end of the May will

begin the first round of playoffs

and will conclude the first week

of June and we will quickly turn

around to get ready for the

summer season.

School Age Programs

1. Fountain Valley Kingston Branch

16582 Brookhurst Street, Fountain Valley, 92708 (714) 531-2582

2. Huntington Beach Branch

2309 Delaware Street, Huntington Beach, 92648 (714) 374-2600

Sports Leagues & Performing Arts Instruction

3. ClubHouse Academy

10200 Slater Avenue, Fountain Valley, 92708 (714) 593-0753 (between FV City Hall & Library)

Licensed Childcare for ages 6 weeks to 5 years

4. Learning Center Cild Development

Preschool 17565 Los Alamos Street, Fountain Valley, 92708 (714) 593-0753

5. Robert Mayer Child Development

Preschool 15744 Golden West Street, Huntington Beach, 92647 (714) 899-5900 (located near the intersection of Gothard St. & Center Ave.)

Building Dreams Capital Campaign

6. Partnering with Golden West

College to build California’s 1st Boys & Girls Club on a college campus! For information (714) 593-0753

Page 4 Robert Mayer

Child Development Preschool, HB April ended with a terrific

carnival to celebrate Week of

the Young Child. Our center

received a lovely plaque from

the county of Orange in

recognition of our efforts in

celebrating Week of the Young

Child and for teachers and

others who make a difference in

the lives of young children.

The month of May bloomed

w i t h a p p r e c i a t i o n a n d

recognition! On May 7-11 we

had fun celebrating Teacher

Appreciation Week, each day

staff members were recognized

by parents, children and

administration for their hard

work and dedicated efforts they

put forth daily in working with

our children. Small thoughtful

gifts such as handpicked flowers

from parent’s gardens, the

children writing thank you notes,

and a potluck lunch made the

staff feel good about what they

do!

The weeks of May 14th and May

21st we held our second set of

parent/teacher conferences.

Staff worked hard on completing

the DRDP assessments and

putting together a portfolio for

each child. Portfolios represent

documentation of a child’s

progress in specific criteria

throughout the year; this is shown

through art work, writing samples,

pictures and dictations. It is so

nice to see the leaps of growth in

all the children that are about to

complete this school year.

Curriculum this month included

finishing up the alphabet letter of

the week, working on letter

sounds and starting word

families. Word families consist of

a few consistent letters when put

together with a new beginning

letter it makes a word, example

“at” can be paired with “c” to

make “cat.”

Many c lassrooms made

something special to celebrate

Mother’s Day. Children

answered questions about their

mom’s to create poems, some

classrooms made handprint

flowers, and others used their

imag ina t ion and crea ted

homemade cards.

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Huntington Beach Branch

Over the last month we have

gone through some changes at

our club. Devon Putman, who

h a s w o r k e d w i t h t h e

organization for two years, has

moved up to Los Angles to a

different career. We

would like to thank

Devon for her hard

work and dedication

to our organization as

well as wish her the

best of luck in her

future.

Taking Devon’s

position is Kristal

Stewart. Kristal has

come to us with a

wealth of experience

in many areas of

recreation. We look

forward to her

development and growth and

her contributions to our

program.

Thank you to everyone involved

in sending us to the National

Conference. This year was the

best set of speakers that I have

ever seen. Their topics and

speaking points were perfectly

matched to our organizational

mission. I really appreciate the

ongoing support for my personal

development and growth to be

the best staff I can be.

During spring break we had a

huge Easter Egg Hunt. The kids

went crazy for the eggs and the

fun culminated with an egg drop

from the roof of our building. The

children had an absolute blast.

That’s all for now!

Boys & Girls Club programs expand learning opportunities for the kids in our community. Club programs COMPLEMENT, RATHER THAN DUPLICATE, regular school day activities.

Boys & Girls Club programs focus on strong outcomes, are cost effective and promote student engagement. (Fueled by Club activities kids get involved, go to school and learn to give back to their community.)

*Study reports Impressive Economic Impact! $1 $16.48

For every $1 spent by the Clubs, Boys & Girls Clubs in California generate $16.18 of positive economic impact in the state. This remendous rate of return is a testament to the vital role the Clubs play in shaping the lives and futures of Club members and their parents. Beyond the value of social services provided, Clubs stimulate the economy through their budgetary expenditures and volunteer programs. Just like private for‐profit businesses, Boys & Girls Clubs spend money on payroll, supplies, and equipment thereby helping to stimulate the economy. Volunteers further this capacity through a donation of labor that has similar productive qualities as a monetary donation.

*Jamshid Damooei, Ph.D. & Alidad A. Damooei Professor of Economics and Chair Vice President Department of Economics, Finance, and Accounting. Damooei Global Research, California Lutheran University

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