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Camp Fire Boys And Girls Santa Clara-Santa Cruz Counties

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Causes: Camp Fire, Children & Youth, Education, Elementary & Secondary Schools, Literacy, Youth Development Programs

Mission: Camp Fire USA provides girls and boys with opportunities to realize their full potentials and to grow up as caring, confident and responsible leaders in their communities. Camp Fire USA is a nonprofit organization founded nationally in 1910 by Luther Gulick, M.D., and his wife, Charlotte Gulick, as the first nonsectarian organization for girls in the United States. Camp Fire USA is the only national leading youth development organizations serving both boys and girls in 40 states and the District of Columbia. Locally, the Greater Bay Area Council has been meeting the changing needs of the youth in the Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and East Bay communities since its inception in 1912. Last year, the Greater Bay Area Council reached approximately 24,000 local boys and girls through its club program, day and resident camps, in-school self-reliance courses and outreach programs designed to assure that children in San Jose's ethnically diverse lower income neighborhoods would receive relevant Camp Fire USA programs. We are inclusive and open to every person in each community we serve. We work to realize the dignity and worth of each individual and to eliminate human barriers based on all assumptions that prejudge individuals. In addition, our program standards are designed and implemented to reduce sex-role, racial and cultural stereotypes and to foster positive intercultural relationships. In Camp Fire USA, we encourage every child to discover his or her talents and abilities in a safe and secure environment. We think it?s important that kids satisfy their need to belong. Camp Fire allows youth to be part of a group that helps them make friends, interact with adult role models and become concerned citizens in their communities. This is taught through fun, coeducational activities, such as camps, clubs and child care, as well as community service projects, which teach children through hands-on experience the value of volunteering and service learning.

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america123 Volunteer

Rating: 5

07/11/2017

Supported by Grandparents For A Better World
US A Thinking Team works from two countries,
never asks for money or donations, designing
entertaining and inspirational programs helping other
organizations to meet medical and educational needs.
Recording radio programs for wounded soldiers and
parents in prison, Creating live theater programs,
Healing Art For Hospitals and Medical Centers
Director of Education is Sydney Gay Kislevitz

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