Congratulations to our 2011 Charity Partners!

The mission of the Boys & Girls Club of Burbank And Greater East Valley is to inspire and enable all young people to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.

Since 1995, we opened our doors to over 2,000 children annually. We continue to make a difference in the lives of every youth we serve. We are approaching our 15th year in the community providing affordable after school and summer program for boys and girls ages 6 – 18. The club helps strengthen each child's self-esteem and individuality through our programs and services.

Today, the Boys & Girls Club East Valley is committed to providing affordable after school, summer, extended day care programs and services covering a wide range of programs. Our young people continue to receive critical guidance from committed professional staff and dedicated volunteers through a wide range of educational and recreational programs. Our parents benefit from the Club’s low cost child care programs made affordable to everyone during after school hours and throughout the summer vacation months.

The Foundation for a Drug-Free World is a nonprofit public benefit corporation that empowers youth and adults with factual information about drugs so they can make informed decisions and live drug-free.

No one, especially a young person, likes to be lectured about what he or she can or cannot do. Thus, we provide the facts that empower youth to choose not to take drugs in the first place. Additionally our Truth About Drugs campaign consists of activities that they can join which popularize drug-free living. These activities are simple, effective and can involve people of all ages.

Through a worldwide network of volunteers, 56 million educational handouts have been distributed, tens of thousands of drug awareness events have been held in some 120 countries and Truth About Drugs public service announcements have been aired on 275 television stations. These materials and activities have helped people around the world learn about the destructive effects of drugs and thereby make the decision for themselves to not use them.

Narconon International provides drug information, education about the effects of drugs and effective drug rehabilitation programs for those already in the grip of addiction.

The effects drugs and alcohol have on our society are disastrous. Millions of lives have been ruined, and many lives ended before their time. Careers and jobs have been lost, people have been injured or debilitated, savings have been squandered, families have broken up, and some have lost everything they have – including their sons or daughters.

Our overcrowded prisons are filled with offenders whose crimes involved drugs. Many of them were on drugs when they committed those crimes – and often the crime was committed to support their own drug habit.

But drug addiction and dependency are not happening just to the stereotypical "drug addict". People from all walks of life, and at all ages, are falling prey to drugs.

Young school kids get drugs from their classmates and friends, teenagers bring prescription drugs from their parents' medicine cabinets to "pharma" parties where they throw the pills into a bowl where anyone can take what they want – with no idea of how the drugs will affect them, or how dangerous they are.

College kids are spending hard-earned education dollars on drugs. Doctors, lawyers, business people, blue collar workers and housewives are getting hooked – no one is immune.