On the court.
Through Kemba Walker Academy, athletes train and compete with coaches who hold them to a high standard and help them work toward it. They practice ownership, teamwork, and responding when things get hard.
KEMBA WALKER FOUNDATION
Kemba Walker Foundation is a sports-based youth development organization that uses basketball to help young people build confidence, character, and connection.
Make the assistOUR STORY
Walk into a Kemba Walker Academy practice and you’ll see basketball: drills, sprints, a coach’s whistle, a competitive scrimmage. Look closer and you’ll see something else.
An athlete learning that showing up on time is a commitment to their teammates. A quiet player finding their voice. Someone taking hard feedback, resetting, and going again. Families from different neighborhoods and schools cheering for the same team.
Those moments don’t show up in the box score. They are central to why we do this work.
ONE GAME. THREE AREAS OF GROWTH.
The relationships and habits built through a team can stay with young people long after practice ends.
Through Kemba Walker Academy, athletes train and compete with coaches who hold them to a high standard and help them work toward it. They practice ownership, teamwork, and responding when things get hard.
We’re building toward academic support and college and career exploration, connecting the effort athletes bring to basketball with opportunities for their future.
Teams bring young people and families together across schools and neighborhoods. Athletes learn to support others and take responsibility for how they represent their team.
Help support the coaching, gym time, equipment, and competition behind these experiences, and give us room to build what comes next.
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For other giving arrangements or business partnerships, contact KWF.