The Allen Blash Foundation

06/13/2026

🔥 105+ students. One night. Zero fights. Countless memories.

Our 2nd Annual ABF End-of-School Lock-In at Big Air was everything we hoped it would be and more. 🏀🎉🙌

This wasn’t just a celebration—it was an opportunity for young people to build relationships, connect with mentors, meet new friends, set goals, and create memories in a safe, positive environment.

What makes ABF different is that we don’t just keep kids busy—we intentionally create experiences that build confidence, accountability, leadership, and community. 💙

The best part? Hearing directly from our youth about what ABF means to them and why events like this matter. Their voices are the reason we do this work every day.

Take a look inside the night and see why this has become one of our signature events. 🚀

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06/12/2026

🧡💙🕊️ This post is dedicated to Stop the Violence Coalition and everyone who helped make this past weekend one to remember! 🙌🏾✨

From 🎉 Teen Night Out at C.C. Woodson on Friday, to the 🚶🏾‍♂️🕊️ Peace Walk on Saturday morning, to an incredible 💙 CHAD community event, and finishing strong with 🧡 Orange Sunday at The Beacon on Sunday, our community came together with one message: enough is enough. ✋🏾💥

One of the most powerful moments of the weekend was standing together at the courthouse as Mayor Jerome Rice officially proclaimed June 5th as National Gun Violence Awareness Day in the City of Spartanburg. 📜🏛️🧡 That moment represented hope, unity, awareness, and a shared commitment to protecting our youth and strengthening our community. 💪🏾❤️

Thank you to every volunteer 🙏🏾, organizer 👏🏾, sponsor 🤝🏾, community partner 🏘️, elected official 🏛️, parent 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦, and young person 🌟 who showed up, participated, and helped make an impact. Your presence matters. Your voice matters. Your work matters. 💯

Together we walked. 🚶🏾‍♀️🚶🏾‍♂️
Together we served. 🤝🏾
Together we celebrated. 🎉
Together we stood for peace. 🕊️
Together we stood for our youth. 🧒🏾👧🏾❤️

The work isn’t finished, but this weekend reminded us that when Spartanburg comes together, powerful things happen. 🔥💙🧡

🕊️ 🧡 🍊 🚶🏾‍♂️

05/30/2026

🚨🔥 LAST CHANCE! ONLY 30 SPOTS LEFT! 🔥🚨

🎉 SCHOOL’S OUT… NOW LET’S CELEBRATE THE RIGHT WAY! 🎉

🌙🏀🎮🍕 BIG AIR OVERNIGHT LOCK-IN
🗓️ TONIGHT!
⏰ 11:00 PM – 7:00 AM

⚠️ Once these final spots are gone, they’re GONE! ⚠️

Parents, here’s the reality…

💰 Taking your child to Big Air on your own can easily cost more than attending with ABF when you factor in:
✅ Jump Time
✅ Late Night Entertainment
✅ Supervision
✅ Activities
✅ Food & Drinks
✅ An Entire Night of Fun

For just $25, your child gets an unforgettable overnight experience surrounded by positive mentors and great friends! 🙌

But this is bigger than jumping…

At ABF, we don’t just watch kids. ❤️

💯 We build relationships.
💯 We encourage leadership.
💯 We challenge students to make positive choices.
💯 We help young people build confidence.
💯 We create moments they’ll remember long after the night is over.

Our mentors will be there all night connecting with students, laughing with them, encouraging them, and helping them understand that being a great person matters both on and off the trampoline. 🏆

🎯 Ages: Rising 6th–9th Grade
🎯 Safe Environment
🎯 Positive Mentors
🎯 Music
🎯 Games
🎯 Dodgeball
🎯 Basketball
🎯 Trampolines
🎯 Fun Challenges
🎯 Memories They’ll Talk About All Summer

📢 STUDENTS:
Tag your friends.
Call your cousins.
Text your classmates.
Tell your teammates.

📢 PARENTS:
If your child has been looking for something fun, safe, and positive to do to kick off summer, THIS IS IT!

🔥 ONLY 30 SPOTS REMAINING 🔥

👉 Register NOW before someone else takes your spot!

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05/30/2026

It’s going down tomorrow! It’s not too late to join us, DM for more details! 🔥

05/27/2026

05/27/2026

Today is a big moment for . 💙

ABF officially completed the Nonprofit Capacity Bootcamp through the Spartanburg County Foundation and received our certificate of completion. This wasn’t just a class — it was training focused on helping organizations build stronger systems, stronger leadership, better structure, and greater capacity to serve MORE people effectively.

To our youth: this means we are preparing ourselves to grow the RIGHT way. It means ABF is learning how to handle bigger opportunities, stronger partnerships, more programs, more impact, and more responsibility while continuing to serve our community with excellence.

And culturally, we need to normalize celebrating each other. Too often people compare, compete, criticize, or project their own ideas onto someone else’s vision instead of simply celebrating the win. Somebody else succeeding does not take anything away from you. We can clap for each other AND grow at the same time.

So today, celebrate with us. 🎉
This is a win for every student, every mentor, every parent, every supporter, and every person who believes in what we are building.

Drop some 💙💛🔥👏🏾 emojis in the comments and help us celebrate this milestone because ABF is growing… and we’re just getting started.

05/26/2026

This Memorial Day, while many people were relaxing, the team at Plugged-In Barbershop chose to serve. 💈❤️

Today, they spent their holiday at Soup Kitchen giving back to the community through free haircuts, conversations, encouragement, and love. For many people, a haircut is more than just a cut — it’s confidence, dignity, a fresh start, and a reminder that somebody cares.

At The Allen Blash Foundation, we always talk about exposure, service, leadership, and showing up for people… and today these brothers did exactly that.

This is what community looks like.
This is what brotherhood looks like.
This is what impact looks like.

🎥 In this video, you’ll hear directly from the barbers themselves about what they gained from this experience and why serving others matters to them.

Please show love to these men for using their gifts to uplift others on a day meant to honor sacrifice and service. 🙏🏾✂️

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05/22/2026

FLASHBACK FRIDAY 💈🔥

One thing we’re always gonna teach our young kings at ABF is this: how you present yourself matters. Looking clean, smelling good, keeping yourself groomed, and carrying yourself with confidence can open doors before you even say a word.

First impressions matter with jobs, opportunities, professional settings, and yes… even with the ladies 😅💯

That’s why we brought the barbers into our After-School Inspiring Minds program at Spartanburg Prep. The fellas learned about self-care, hygiene, keeping their hair fresh between cuts, using sponges properly, confidence, presentation, and taking pride in themselves.

Sometimes mentorship looks like life talks.
Sometimes it looks like teaching young men how to level up.

Because when you look good, you feel good… and when you feel good, you move different. 🧠⚡️