My Nonprofit Reviews

I have been fortunate to experience first hand the power of a residential summer camp experience having both attended camp as a child, sending my own kids to camp, and seeing the impact of camp on children of all backgrounds in my work as an educator.

The John Austin Cheley Foundation brings the opportunity of a residential summer camp experience to a wide range of children from different backgrounds, experiences, values, and more. It's not just a one-off summer at camp, but a commitment to its recipients of the camp experience scholarship to multiple years of transformative experiences that will impact them for a lifetime.

What is particularly unique to this foundation is the opportunity that campers have to continue their experiences of camp through the Capstone initiative. Participants are expected to find a way to participate and contribute to the communities where they live. For the foundation to want to extend the experience of camp beyond the one month each summer shows tremendous foresight and thought about how to broaden the reach of the impact of what they do.