About Us
The Johnny Burke Children’s Foundation was established by 96 WHNN morning personality Johnny Burke, to help children in unfortunate situations. Media personalities often encounter kids in need of expensive medical treatment or equipment, kids who have lost their parents or have other challenges. The goal of the Foundation is to help these kids by raising money through out the year with a series of fun events…ensuring the immediate availability of funds in times of need.
Since 1996, the JBCF has distributed over a million dollars to kids who needed it; helping families find shelter, buying human hair wigs for kids who’ve lost their hair, purchasing computers for autistic learning programs, paying for back-to-school backpacks–fighting truancy, and providing scholarships to special summer camp programs for special children, to name only a few.
