Be the Best You.
We provide opportunities for youth to learn how to be healthy, on and off the field.
Olive Crest Fashion Show
Olive Crest Los Angeles celebrated its second annual fashion show. This year in honor of Star Wars Day, they hosted a May the 4th Be With You Fashion Show. The purpose of the fundraiser was to provide brand-new clothing and shoes to 32 youth. On top of Austin Ekeler Foundation providing the youth new clothes, Hot Topic, Box Lunch, Florence By Mills, Raising Canes, and Rise Boutique also provided brand-new clothing. These youth are current/former foster youth, youth that are prevented from entering the system, and those receiving mental health services. On top of the youth participating in the fashion show, two adopted youth even helped to put on the show. One of the children co-hosted the event with Josie Leinart and the others performed her original song “I’ll Move On”. In total, $50,000 was raised to go directly into their work of strengthening, equipping, and restoring children and families in crisis by preventing child abuse, homelessness, and child sex trafficking.
West Sacramento Football Camp
The Austin Ekeler Foundation came out to a youth football camp in West Sacramento, CA sponsored and hosted by Invictus Youth Foundation & West Sacramento Police Department. Austin gave the students words of advice, specifically how to “Be The Best You” and coached various drills for hundreds of children.
Humboldt Park Patriots
“We strive to remain accessible to young athletes on Chicago’s West Side. As part of our mission, we do everything in our power to keep costs low for our players to ensure price is not a barrier for anyone in the area that wants to learn to play football. After the pandemic that affected us all, our organization was facing reduced registrations and a need for new equipment. Through an act of extreme generosity and kindness, the Austin Ekeler Foundation funded our equipment needs and then some! Our young athletes took the field with new Riddell helmets, shoulder pads, jerseys and even got to hit some brand new tackling dummies. I don’t know where our organization would be today without the kindness of Mr. Ekeler and his team of mission driven individuals. We are forever grateful as this donation has helped us seize an opportunity to grow our team.”
— The Humboldt Park Patriots Youth Football Team
Inglewood High School
Austin Ekeler Foundation teamed up with the Chargers to provide new helmets, cleats, and gloves to the Inglewood HS football team. The Chargers home, SoFi stadium, is located in Inglewood, CA, so it was great to meet some of the kids in our area as they were hosted at the Chargers training camp.
Crossroad Tigers
Austin Ekeler Foundation matched a $2,500 equipment grant from the NFL Way To Play program to support Crossroads Tigers Youth Athletics (CTYA) in San Fernando, CA to receive $5,000 in new football equipment.
CTYA is a non-profit, athletic-based organization that focuses on the fun of sport participation and the inherent discipline and other fitness, social and emotional benefits that come from playing youth football and other sports for whole-child development.
“When I heard that the Crossroad Tigers are ran and coached by LAPD officers as a way to build relationships between kids and police in the community, I knew I wanted to get involved. I’m fortunate to be able to team up with great partners to provide new equipment to help keep these kids motivated on the field and in turn on their off the field endeavors.”