Camp Legacy Initiative
In 2008, the Grinspoon Institute created the Camp Legacy Initiative, under the tutelage of Gail Littman from the San Diego Jewish Community Foundation, to motivate Jewish summer camps to secure legacy gifts from loyal donors. This initiative is financially supported by the Areivim Philanthropic Group and consists of the following activities:
- Coaching and training of lay and staff leadership teams on planned giving tools and solicitation approaches
- Helping camps create a legacy giving action plan and set goals
- Providing sources for educational information, assistance with marketing and outreach
- Providing incentive grants upon completion of mutually agreed upon number of donor conversations and donor legacy pledges per year
- Providing travel stipends for legacy team to attend trainings
For more information contact:
David Sharken
413 439-1955
david@hgf.org
Currently 48 camps across the country participate in the Camp Legacy Initiative. To date they have received nearly 2,300 individual and family legacy pledges valued at $59 million.
2008-10 Participating Camps:
- JCC Maccabi Camp Kingswood
- New Jersey Y Camps
- Camp Ramah Darom
- Camp Ramah Wisconsin
- Tamarack Camps
- URJ Eisner and Crane Lake Camps
2009-11 Participating Camps:
- B'nai Brith Camp - Oregon
- Herzl Camp
- Camp Judaea
- Habonim Dror Camp Galil
- Camp Seneca Lake
- Shalom Institute Camp
- Surprise Lake Camp
- Camp Tawonga
- URJ Camp Newman-Swig
- URJ Greene Family Camp
- URJ Camp Harlam
- URJ Henry S. Jacobs Camp
- Camp Yavneh
2010-12 Participating Camps:
- Camp Moshava Wild Rose
- Camp Poyntelle Lewis Village
- Camp Ramah Berkshires
- Camp Ramah California
- Camp Ramah New England
- Camp Ramah Poconos
- Camp Young Judaea Sprout Lake
- Camp Stone
- Habonim Dror Camp Tavor
- URJ Camp Coleman
- URJ Olin Sang Ruby Institute (OSRUI)
- Wilshire Boulevard Temple Camps
2011-13 Participating Camps:
- Camp Bauercrest
- Camp JORI
- Camp Kinder Ring
- Camp Laurelwood
- Camp Nageela Midwest (Agudath Israel)
- Camp Shomria Canada
- Camp Shomria of Hashomer Hatzair
- Camp Young Judaea Tel Yehudah
- Camp Young Judaea Texas
- Capital Camps & Retreat Center
- Habonim Dror Camp Gilboa
2012-14 Participating Camps:
- Beber Camp
- Camp Avoda
- Camp Interlaken JCC
- Camp Nageela
- Camp Solomon Schechter
- Habonim Dror Camp Miriam
- URJ GUCI (Goldman Union Camping Institute)