"My words are inadequate to tell you what a life changing experience SOAR was for A.J.. I took to SOAR a depressed young boy and he came home a confident young man." - AJ's Mom
Hope For Military Families
Founded in 1977, SOAR is a non-profit summer camp, boarding school, and gap year program for youth and young adults diagnosed with ADHD and other Learning Disabilities. Through incredible outdoor adventures, SOAR gives participants the opportunity to build friendships, develop life skills, and experience success. The incredible adventures that SOAR has to offer do not come without a cost. For many military families, SOAR’s programs are financially out of reach, but their children are in desperate need of these experiences. SOAR’s Military Scholarship Fund provides life changing SOAR adventures to military families at little or no cost.
AJ's Story
AJ was one of the first campers to receive a military scholarship through SOAR. AJ was born into a military family and from a very young age shared his father with the service. After already completing three tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan, AJ’s father set out on his last tour in Afghanistan. Unfortunately, AJ’s father lost his life while on his last tour. Only 12 years old at the time and already facing failures and frustrations at school, AJ began to lose all confidence in himself and hope for the future.
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A Life Changed
Through the generous support of donors and foundations, AJ was able to attend two summers at SOAR and one semester of high school at the Academy at SOAR. This would not have been possible without the scholarship assistance he received.
AJ’s life was changed through his experiences at SOAR. His confidence sky rocketed, and he was finally able to learn how to be successful academically and emotionally.
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We Need Your Help
Help us serve more military families by making a donation to the Military Scholarship Fund.
Your donations will be placed in an Endowment Fund, allowing us to provide up to $20,000 in scholarship assistance to military families each year.
In order to do this, we are relying on the generosity and support of individual donors just like you to reach our goal of $500,000.
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"My words are inadequate to tell you what a life changing experience SOAR was for A.J.. I took to SOAR a depressed young boy and he came home a confident young man." - AJ's Mom
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Environment, Environmental Education
Mission: Soar is a private, non-profit corporation dedicated to providing adventure based programs and experiential education services to individuals and families dealing with learning disabilities and/or attention deficit disorders and experiential education services and adventure based wilderness programs to school-aged youth. Soar embraces a commitment to service that is evident in the professional and community involvment of its staff members.
Programs: Participants in soar's summer camps, academy and gap year programs take part in adventure experiences designed to develop problem solving skills, effective communication strategies, general social skills and to increase self-awareness . By achieving success in such activities as rock climbing, whitewater rafting, scuba, horseback riding, kayaking and more, each student builds essential self-esteem and self-confidence that translates into all walks of life. Soar's success based programs focus on the gifts and abilities of each youth- strengths that will launch them into a life filled with opportunity and success. As an accredited boarding school, our academy at soar has granted students high school diplomas as they have successfully completed required coursework.