Camps Helping Camps.Is your camp lost-and-found bin full? Are you updating your camp's equipment? Camps Helping Camps can help. Camp Helping Camps is a new, nonprofit public benefit corporation for charitable purposes to provide assistance to camps for underprivileged and homeless children through donations of new and used goods. Camps Helping Camps was founded by a group of camp professionals during a Camp Counselors USA camp fair in Prague, Czech Republic Czech Republic, Czech Česká Republika (2005 est. pop. 10,241,000), republic, 29,677 sq mi (78,864 sq km), central Europe. It is bordered by Slovakia on the east, Austria on the south, Germany on the west, and Poland on the north. . It quickly became evident to the group, which included private independent camps and camps serving New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of City's homeless children, that camps that serve children from the inner city are in dire need of resources -- resources other camps could supply. Many inner city children arrive at the camp bus with little more than a plastic bag with a change of clothes for the next day. The clothing list that is often seen as the essentials for a summer at camp is impossible for many inner city and homeless families to fulfill. The clothing from your lost-and-found bin can go a long way toward enriching the summer for many children at these camps. How your camp can help At the heart of Camps Helping Camps are camp directors and camps, just like you, who are willing to share their extra resources with those camps that would truly benefit from their help. The organization will arrange for pick up and transportation to a camp in need and welcomes donations of: * Equipment and supplies in good working condition that would otherwise be discarded * Gently worn or used clothing left behind at the conclusion of your camping season Camps Helping Camps is a nonprofit 501(c) 3 organization. All donations are considered charitable under IRS An abbreviation for the Internal Revenue Service, a federal agency charged with the responsibility of administering and enforcing internal revenue laws. code and are eligible to receive a gift letter from Camps Helping Camps for submission to the IRS for tax deduction Tax deduction An expense that a taxpayer is allowed to deduct from taxable income. tax deduction See deduction. purposes. Members of the board of directors include: * Sam Borek, Camp Laurel, Maine * Michael Fried Michael Fried (born 1939, New York City) is an influential Modernist art critic and art historian. He studied at Princeton University and Harvard University and was a Rhodes Scholar at Merton College, Oxford University. He is currently the J.R. , Camp Agawak, Wisconsin * Bill Harwood, Camp Counselors USA, California * Helene Klaus, Camp Perlman, Pennsylvania * Tom Troche troche /tro·che/ (tro´ke) lozenge (1). tro·che n. A small, circular medicinal lozenge; a pastille. , KenMont and KenWood Camps, Connecticut To make a donation of clothes or other equipment, please write to 2330 Marinship Way, Suite 250, Sausalito, California Sausalito is a city in the San Francisco Bay Area situated in Marin County, California, United States. The population was 7,330 as of the year 2000 census. Viña del Mar, Chile, home to "Sausalito" stadium and "Sausalito" lagoon, is a sister city of Sausalito, which features a 94965; fax 415-339-2744; or e-mail campshelpingcamps@campcounselors.com. |
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