Each year I spend my November and December asking for support from friends, family, co-workers, colleagues, my current and former students, parents of Frost Valley campers, and former campers themselves—to help me raise funds to provide financial aid for families who cannot otherwise send their children to camp. Yes, based on our idea that every kid deserves two weeks at camp—in our gorgeous mountain valley, under pristine starry night skies, across huge fields for playing and along trails for hiking—Frost Valley provides aid to families in need.
I really don't know of a more effective non-profit organization. Frost Valley makes not a dime of profit. We have typically provided during summer some $900,000 to families and children in need. That aid creates socio-economic, regional, cultural, religious, and other kinds of diversity, and that diversity in turn forms a community in which the values of tolerance and caring and humane safety are real and present. Frost Valley has been devastated by a hurricane, suffered major losses during the pandemic, faced funding challenges, but
between the ages of eight and fifteen to come to camp next summer! I need to raise this amount by the last day of the year 2024—December 31. Please click GIVE NOW near the top right of this page to help these kids with an amount somewhere beyond what you think you can afford! And then watch your inbox because I will personally thank you and thank you—and thank you again.
I am hardly alone in feeling that an entire generation of kids will once again need our help in the summer of 2025. Many live anxiously through family crises of physical and mental health, of economic urgency, of community challenges at home.
It is my intention once again to spend my summer volunteering at Frost Valley—to support the kids, guide their counselors, and be on hand to help in whatever way I can to make summer 2025 as fun and exhiliarating a vacation for them as will be humanly possible.
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