JUST A KID FOUNDATION, INC.
PLANTATION, FLORIDA

Our Mission The Just a Kid Foundation gives under privileged kids life chances, using basketball as a vehicle to further their education through scholarships at schools and colleges. We teach the skills and values our founder, Jacob Burke, developed through the sport of basketball – dedication, pride and entrepreneurship. We help children become valuable members of society, paying it forward to others, just as the foundation has paid it forward to them. Today, in addition to managing day to day operations, he personally sponsors 11 kids in Canada and the US, helping them through the visa process to settle on full basketball scholarships at high school. He hopes to see them through college, the ultimate goal. The young adults who have already begun to see big changes in their lives are the foundation for our future. We are equipping them with the knowledge and vision to take over the foundation and pay it forward for others. In this sustainable, empowering future, we see a growing network of kids who have grown to become the pillars of a bigger, better Just a Kid Foundation, helping to establish new opportunities within their countries. Using their own personal experiences to help the next generation, we believe in giving those we help the tools to help those around them. Just a Kid Foundation was formed to pass on the skills and values its founder, Jacob Burke developed through the sport of basketball. It gives under privileged kids an opportunity to focus their time and energy on becoming better basketball players and ultimately using it as a vehicle to further their education through scholarships around the world. To make a difference and make a change there are myriad ways to get involved. Perhaps you could donate basketball shoes, apparel, shirts, shorts, basketballs, hoops and other essentials to the sports supplements and protein shakes we use to help raise nutrition levels in kids who are often undernourished. Maybe you’ve got time to visit one of our camps or academies to provide practical help or coaching. It might be that you’ve got great fundraising connections at home or abroad. You could also help by adding to our library of coaching drills and education materials.