Mission, Vision & History
Camp for All Kids believes that:
Respect for diversity, inclusion, and equity are most readily developed in youth. Youth benefit from a diverse camp experience.
Overnight summer camp provides a safe and structured environment that encourages social-emotional development while enabling members of the camp community to become the best versions of themselves.
Young people who live, play and meet challenges together at camp leverage those relationships, skills and experiences throughout their lives.
Our
Camp for All Kids provides camperships that enable Black and Brown youth from historically under-resourced communities to experience overnight summer camp, providing a safe environment that fosters fellowship and social-emotional development. By bridging the opportunity gap and facilitating a racially diverse camp community, the Camp for All Kids experience benefits our campership recipients and the entire camp community.
Our History
Camp for All Kids — a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization — was officially incorporated in 1997 to promote and facilitate racial diversity by sending kids from under-served communities to overnight summer camp. But the real story began six years earlier when a Camp Kamaji parent asked what he could do to add diversity to camp. Fast forward several decades to today: more than 1,500 camperships have been awarded, and thousands more kids, campership recipients and their camp friends alike, have benefited from a diverse camp experience.