BY BARBARA STEVENS,
DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT, THE COHEN CAMPS
Every year, a few Cohen Campers do something I consider extraordinary: they invite friends and family to give to their camp’s Scholarship Fund. They do this in place of gifts for their bar or bat mitzvah, or for their birthday. Cohen Camps Alumni do it, too, as a way to mark a big occasion like a birth, a wedding, a milestone birthday, a retirement, or other occasion.
We call these MItzvah Projects. Anyone who wants to create a Mitzvah Project can have a profile and a custom gift link that’s easy to share around. Simply get in touch with me to register your event! I and the whole team here will do whatever you need to help you share your love of camp with others.
In the generosity of each Mitzvah Project, I see the love and values of our camp community…and I’m both grateful and deeply, deeply inspired.
1 in 4 camp families depend on scholarships
One in four of every Cohen Campers’ families depends on a measure of scholarship aid to be able to give their kids their summers – their lifetimes – of camp. A quarter of the young people in our camps. That means that the Scholarship Fund makes an impact on every camper’s life, because no bunk would be complete without every friend present. It could be you, or it could be the person in the next bed over. The awesome thing is that at camp, it doesn’t even matter who it is – and no one even knows! What matters is that everyone is together. And that togetherness and friendship is what these campers and alumni have chosen to honor with their gifts.
THANK YOU to everyone who has fundraised for campers and camp with a Mitzvah Project. Your commitment has moved others to give – and you inspire even more people to create even more camp Mitzvah Projects.
Furthermore, todah rabah, thank you VERY much, to everyone who has taken part (or will take part) in these Mitzvah Projects, as friend, as champion, as motivator, as donor. YOU embody what’s truly extraordinary about camp!
Barbara
Barbara Stevens
Cohen Camps Director of Development
(and Camp Tevya alum)
bstevens@cohencamps.org
