Honoring 25 Years of Impact!
June 2026
For a quarter century, our foundation has stood at the intersection of education, prevention and hope, guided by one enduring belief—knowledge saves lives. When young people are supported and empowered, they can build brighter and healthier futures.
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Happy New Year!
January 2026
Happy New Year! This year, the DEA Educational Foundation will be honoring 25 years of impact; reflecting on our legacy and celebrating our future! Throughout 2026, we will reflect on our foundation that was built on vision and purpose.
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Happy Holidays!
December 2025
Happy Holidays and best wishes to everyone from the DEA Educational Foundation (DEAEF). As we reach the end of 2025, we reflect upon our successes in providing drug prevention education and healthy outlets to our youth and communities.
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Summer of Education
September 2025
The past few months have been filled with engaging summer youth camps, educational seminars, teen academies, positive mentorship, community partnerships and continued support from community partners, our staff, board and donors.
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Tribute to Our Founder
June 2025
It is with great sadness that we open this volume of The Impact with news of the passing of our beloved DEA Educational Foundation Founder, William F. Alden (Bill).
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Happy Holidays!
December 2024
A sincere thank you to all our staff and partners who helped us make a difference in children's lives during the year. As 2024 comes to an end, the DEAEF reflects upon a year of instilling hope and making a positive impact on our children through prevention education.
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Every Day Heroes
September 2024
Throughout the summer, we continued to provide encouragement and the promise of hope to students in a safe and healthy environment.
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Instilling Hope
June 2024
Welcome to the DEAEF Spring into Summer 2024 Newsletter! Continuing with our theme of sending messages of hope, we are happy to share our recent stories with you.
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Happy New Year!
January 2024
Happy New Year! I am truly grateful to all of our friends and supporters who contributed to the DEAEF End-of-Year Appeal for 2023, allowing the Foundation to further extend our reach in 2024. I believe 2024 will be a year of hope, accomplishments, extended reach and strides in prevention.
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Kicking Off a Busy 2023-24 School Year
November 2023
After a successful late spring and summer of programming we are thrilled to start the 2023-24 school year, vigorously inspiring and educating students in nearly 80 cities nationwide!
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New Leadership for the Future
June 2023
The Foundation has been busy the first half of 2023 and we are excited to share with you news about our ongoing youth programs and special events.
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Expanding Our Reach
Winter 2022–23
Happy New Year from the DEA Educational Foundation! The Foundation's staff, instructors and coaches were vigorously active in the second half of 2022 and we look forward to an even more of an expansive reach of our youth programs in 2023!
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Celebrating 10 Years
Summer 2022
Happy Summer from the DEA Educational Foundation! Spring and summer of 2022 have been very busy seasons for the Foundation and we have many meaningful projects on the horizon for the second half of this year.
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The Women of the DEA Educational Foundation
Spring 2022
The DEAEF continues to be busier than ever and we look forward to another full year of mentoring and educating the youth of our country about the dangers of drug abuse.
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The Reason for Impact
Winter 2021
Season's Greetings from the DEA Educational Foundation (DEAEF)! As we reflect on our celebration of 20 Years of Impact and the reach of hundreds of thousands of individuals through the work of the DEAEF, we are thankful to our many friends and colleagues for your continued support over the years.
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DEAEF Partners with DEA in Operation Engage
Summer 2021
Summer greetings from the DEA Educational Foundation! In this issue we will highlight our new and expanding youth drug prevention and education programs, our continuing partnership with DEA’s Operation Engage and the success of our virtual Broadway fundraising event held in March 2021.
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Foundation 20th Anniversary Launch
Spring 2021
Welcome to our second edition of the DEA Educational Foundation newsletter! Since December 2020, we have been busier than ever, and the DEAEF is excited to share with you our most recent news about upcoming events and our ongoing youth drug education programs!
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Our Youth. Our Future.
Winter 2020
Welcome to the DEA Educational Foundation (DEAEF) first quarterly newsletter! We thought it important to keep our colleagues informed of our efforts in continuing our programs to educate our citizens and especially the youth of our country, about the dangers of drug abuse and drug addiction.
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