CAMPaign '07 update

Camping Magazine, March-April, 2003

GREAT NEWS!! We have surpassed the $1,000,000 mark. This is an important milestone for CAMPaign'07 as it brings us closer to our first goal of $2,500,000. Your support not only provides direct financial resources, it is also a sign of your commitment and serves as seed money to garner funds from a variety of other sources. The overall growth in resources is vital to CAMPaign' 07's continued success in meeting the challenges of advancing the understanding and the value of the camp experience.

The total amount pledged and contributed as of January 24, 2003, is $1,147,787.68 from 384 donors. Thanks to the support of our sections and membership for bringing us this far.

CAMPaign'07 -- I Believe Even More

Your "I Believe" contribution will support CAMPaign' 07: "Honor Our Past, Assure Our Future." When you contribute to "I Believe," you are saying "I Believe Even More," and you are ensuring that the children and adults of today, and tomorrow, all have the opportunity to have a safe, positive camp experience -- an experience whose value will be understood and considered an essential asset in human development. CAMPaign' 07 -- I Believe Even More is about supporting those making choices about camp. It is about camp staff and camp professionals. For more information about CAMPaign '07, visit www.ACAcamps.org/campaign.> Testimonials

"Camp is a place where the wonder of being alive in this world can be discovered for the first time or rediscovered time and time again."

-- Christopher Lewis

Camp Francis Asbury

"Rosmarins Day Camp

Believes!"

-- Scott Rosmarin

Camp Rosmarin

Please submit testimonials regarding your reasons for contributing to CAMPaign '07 to kbruno@ACAcamps.org.

Working Together

When we New Englanders heard the news about CAMPaign '07, our excitement was tempered by worry. For a number of years, we had been investigating housing options for our section office. We had owned a house in Waltham, Massachusetts for a number of years and had watched the neighborhood decline before our eyes. Reluctantly in 1995, we sold the house since it was beginning to feel unsafe to be there. We entered the rental market in Greater Boston, with the hope that we could own our own place again soon. Renting, we felt, would be an expensive option, and one that didn't suit our long-term needs. We wanted to control our own destiny and build equity once again.

Optimistically, we began a survey of available properties and realized immediately that we were going to need more funds than we had saved from the sale of the Waltham house. We began to contemplate a Capital Campaign to buy or build a permanent home.

Just then, ACA announced CAMPaign '07. While we applauded its goals and were anxious to help, we feared that our own needs would have to be placed on hold until at least 2008 to allow our New England members a chance to pay off pledges to the national campaign. With space for our office staff too tight, rents going up and options, it seemed, limited, we wondered what to do. A call to Peg Smith at National began the process of finding a terrific solution!

The CAMPaign '07 leadership welcomed a partnership with our section, as a way of making sure both our important goals could be met. Our initial meetings have begun the process of ironing out the details, and I am sure we will figure out all the "ins" and "outs" of those details over the next weeks and months. With luck, hard work, a shared vision, and lots of help from all our New England friends, we will be celebrating together wonderful successes in just a few years. Stay tuned!

-- Posie Taylor

CAMPaign '07 New England Chair

RELATED ARTICLE: Meet Your CAMPaign '07 Committee

Chuck Ackenbom, Virginias Section An Ackerman, NewYork Section Deb Bialeschki, Southeastern Mickey Black, Keystone Regional Maggie Braun, Wisconsin Section Don Cheley, Rocky Mountain Section George Coleman, New York Section Maria Coleman, New York Section Sam Cote, Northland Section Jack Dowell, Heart of the South Section Denny Elliott, Ohio Section Vance Gilmore, Texoma Section Gordie Kaplan, Illinois Section Bill Key, New York Section Sandy Leiser, New Jersey Section Jean McMullan, New England Section Edie Middleton, Evergreen Section Fred Miller, New England Section Doug Pierce, New York Section Rodger Popkin, Southeastern Section Tom Rosenberg, Southeastern Section Ann Sheets (Chair), Texoma Section Al Sigoloff, St. Louis Section David Silverstein (Chair), New York Section Debbie Smith, Indiana Section Posie Taylor, New England Section Henry Thomas, New England Section Ross Turner, Southern California Section Susan Welch, Great Rivers Section

CAMPaign '07 Pledges & Contributions

(Includes "I Believe" gifts from July 1, 2002)

CAMPaign '07 Contributors

ACA Chesapeake Section

ACA Evergreen Section

ACA Great Rivers Section

ACA Keystone Regional Section

ACA Michigan Section

ACA New Jersey Section

ACA New York Section

ACA Ohio Section

ACA Rocky Mountain Section (in memory of DJ Smith)

ACA Texoma Section (in honor of Tom Manison)

ACA Virginias Section