The Arizona Daily Star’s Sportsmen’s Fund Send a Kid to Camp program raises money so children from low-income households and military families can attend overnight YMCA, Boy Scout and Girl Scout camps and Camp Courage burn camp for little or no fees.
We’ve heard back from the Boy Scouts. Thanks to Star readers, 158 Scouts received support: 114 Boy Scouts attended Camp Lawton Boy Scout Camp on Mt. Lemmon; seven Boy Scouts went to weeklong National Youth Leadership Training Camp at Camp Lawton and three Boy Scouts attended the Pimaree, a joint weeklong camping experience in Nogales, Sonora, with Scouts from Mexico.
We’ve received 1,254 donations totaling $134,193 toward our goal of $190,000 to send 770 kids to weeklong overnight camps this summer. We’re $56,000 shy of our goal with camp underway.
Donations are welcome throughout the year. We are grateful for your donations and continuing our thank-yous today.
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Your contribution is tax-deductible, qualifying for the state’s working-poor charitable tax credit of up to $400.
The Sportsmen’s Fund, one of the oldest 501c (3) charities in Southern Arizona, was founded in 1947. Since then, thanks to Arizona Daily Star readers, we have helped to pay for 36,548 children to go to camp.
Recent donations include:
Sonny Atwood, $100.
Edward and Christina Berger, $100.
Col. James and Mrs. Blaylock, $250.
A. and E. Cangeme, $25.
R. Lewis and Catherine Donovan, $100.
Donaldine Finegold, $100.
Pamela and Glen Grote, in memory of Dan Turner, $100.
Steve and Janet Holt, $50.
Claud Howell, $15.
Helen Jedele, $14.
Barbara Kulas, in memory of Rich Kulas, $60.
James and Jodee Kuliesh, $50.
Art and Joanee Kunze, $100.
Ellen and William Kurtz, $1,000.
Anne Lapin, $50.
Dorothy and William Livingston, $100.
Frances Martin, $15.
Rosana Meloy, $100.
Lois Nickel, in memory of Walter and Marguerita Ratcliffe, $25.
Estella Schubert, $25.
Betty Sebert, $10.
The Tang-Arellanos family, $250.
Dana Vincil, $100.
Flora Yee, in memory of Ginny Elsasser, $50.
Mike and Lisa Ziehler, in memory of Joseph Riley, $25.
Two anonymous donations totaling $105.
More donations will be acknowledged in the coming week.
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