California PAL Partners

California PAL is not alone in its effort to build better communities. The following organizations have generously invested in the futures of California's youth and our communities by working in partnership with us and providing indispensable support to our mission.

California PAL and the over 300,000 youth it serves statewide are grateful for the support and guidance we receive from our partners. By supporting their organizations, you are also supporting the overall effort in improving our communities and providing youth with a positive outlook for the future. Only with your support of CALPAL and our partner organizations can we work together to make a better California for all of us.

AllPlayers.com is the first web-based application that incorporates the needs and wants of parents, players and recreational organizations. They bring together both organizations and participants under one common, secure system allowing real-time data updates, event scheduling, unified calendars, secure communication and online community.  AllPlayers.com is COPPA compliant and a certified Green company that is partnering with California PAL and our member chapters to provide crucial services and support for the youth of California along with their parents.

The California Department of Parks and Recreation manages more than 260 park units throughout the state, which contain the finest and most diverse collection of natural, cultural, and recreational resources to be found within California. The California State Parks Department has been a very strong supporter of California PAL, providing state park locations and volunteer manpower support.  Some of the great State Parks programs include the FamCamp program, the PAL Kayak program and the Off-Road PAL program.

National PAL is a non-profit organization formed to provide assistance to the various PAL programs located throughout the United States. Headquartered in North Palm Beach, FL, National PAL constitutes a centralized organization for the channeling of information, instruction, grant opportunities and all other matters common to such programs so as to further and promote their purpose of providing guidance to the youth in educational, athletic and recreational activities.

Junior Giants is a youth baseball program that provides self-esteem and values training, along with baseball equipment, uniforms and instructional service, to boys and girls 8-13 years old who otherwise could not afford to play organized baseball. California PAL is proud to work with the Junior Giants to provide youth with the opportunity to learn baseball and have fun in a safe, supervised environment.

California PAL has held numerous statewide boxing tournaments for our PAL boxers over the past years and USA Boxing has partnered with California PAL to ensure our events have the proper sanctioning and that volunteer officials including scorekeepers and referees are present so that we can put on competitive but safe events.  California PAL is recongnized as having one of the best state PAL tournaments in the country and we typically have participants from all over the nation compete in our tournament.

California PAL and the Los Angeles based Chivas USA have established a Jr. Chivas soccer program.  The objective of the program is to allow youth to run, kick, score goals and have fun playing soccer.  PAL boys and girls from age 5 to 15 can participate in this extremely popular program which runs 6 to 9 months of the year.

The Junior Clippers program is another Los Angeles based basketball program works primarily with inner city children ages 5 to 16 to promote the fundamentals of basketball, sportsmanship and athletics as an alternative to negative influences. Additionally, the program helps to alleviate some of the costs extended to inner city families participating. California PAL and the Clippers have been partners for 5 years providing quality programs for the youth.