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The camp experience has the unique ability
to break down economic, racial, geographic,
religious, ethnic and social barriers.
Camp celebrates diversity and promotes
understanding. And open-hearted children
become open-minded adults.
The American Camp Association invites
you as an ACA-Accredited® camp to take
an active role in promoting unity and an
appreciation of differences among your
campers. The ACA Camper Scholarship Program
was designed to help you do that.
 Each
year, participating camps give scholarships
to campers who cannot afford the entire
camp fee and whose presence at camp will
broaden the composition of the camp community.
Building the Bridge:
- If you are an ACA-accredited camp,
you are eligible. You must submit a list
of benchmarks by which scholarship recipients
will be evaluated and selected.
Camper Scholarship
Program Agreement & Scholarship Application (PDF)
- Solicit contributions from parents,
businesses, organizations and foundations.
All donor checks must be made payable
to the ACA Campership Program
with your camp's name in the lower
left-hand corner and may be sent directly
to ACA, or you may collect and forward
them.
Free brochures describing the ACA
Campership Program are available
for distribution in soliciting donations.
Contact ACA's
development department at 765-342-8456
or contribute@ACAcamps.org for
brochures, applications or for general
information about joining the scholarship
program.
- The ACA credits funds received to your
camp's account and routes a donor
acknowledgment for each gift back to
you so you can attach a personal
"thank you" to the donor.
Note: Camp owners and operators may
not make contributions to their own
camp's scholarship
fund.
- Select your scholarship recipients.
Camp directors must complete an application for
each scholarship. Relatives of a camp’s
owner, operator, or employees are not
eligible for scholarships, nor may the
individual choosing the scholarship recipients
be a donor or be influenced by a donor.
- The ACA issues a check and account
balance statement within fourteen working
days of receiving the participating camp’s
request for scholarship funds. The total
amount requested cannot exceed the amount
in your camp’s account.
Invite diversity into your camp and build
a bridge of understanding that stands the
test of time and proves it is the compassion
we have in common that bonds us together
as human beings.
* A 7½ percent administration
fee will be assessed on all campership
contributions at the time they are credited
to a camp's account.
For more information on how you can help change a child's life, contact contribute@ACAcamps.org or 765-342-8456, ext. 508.
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