Jewish Camp Funding Resources and Incentives

We recognize the financial burden associated with sending your son to overnight camp and are glad to work with each family to help offset this cost.

Bauercrest Enrollment Incentives
While our early enrollment incentive closed in August, 2009, we continue to offer our new camper referral discount.

Any Bauercrest family who refers a new camper for the 2010 camping season will receive a $200 cash award for each camper referred!

This award can alternatively be applied as a credit to your 2010 tuition.

The only restrictions we have on this offer are:

• The new camper cannot be a sibling of an already-enrolled Bauercrest camper.
• The new camper cannot already be enrolled for the 2010 camping season.

Bauercrest Scholarship Support
Camp Bauercrest strives each year to work with families to the best of its ability, to ensure that no one is turned away from the Bauercrest family for financial reasons. Camp Bauercrest, however, is a not for profit organization with a very modest budget for financial assistance.

The Scholarship Committee will review each application very carefully. Its purpose is to ensure that the Camp's limited resources are distributed as equitably as possible to those families who truly need financial assistance.

We urge you, prior to seeking financial assistance from the Camp, to explore all possible family and community resources, so that we can help those most in need.

 Because our resources are so limited, and to ensure that financial assistance is fairly distributed to those truly in need, we must require you to complete the Financial Assistance Application and supply certain financial documentation.

Our 2010 Financial Assistance Request Form will be posted after the 1st of the year.

Other Jewish Camp Funding and Incentive Programs
Many of you are aware of - and have benefitted from - the greater attention and funding channeled toward Jewish camping. Below is a listing with brief descriptions and links to some wonderful programs now in place to provide incentive and need-based funding for Jewish camping:

Combined Jewish Philanthropies: Need-based and incentive funding programs for qualifying families within the CJP geographical area. Learn more about the CJP Jewish Educational Overnight Camping Initiative at: http://www.cjp.org/page.aspx?id=107602.  You can also read more about CJP’s Economic Response Program at http://www.cjp.org/page.aspx?id=196893. 

The Harold Grinspoon Foundation: Campership Incentive Program for residents of Western Massachusetts - http://www.hgf.org/incentive_grants/campership.php.   

The Foundation for Jewish Camp: The Campership Incentive Program provides a comprehensive listing of campership incentive programs across the country - http://www.jewishcamp.org/fjc/grants/campership_incentive_program.asp; you can also visit http://www.onehappycamper.org/ to access this information.     

North Shore Teen Initiative Campership Program: For Massachusetts North Shore youth who have never before attended overnight Jewish summer camp. Funding available to campers attending for a minimum 4week Bauercrest session - http://www.nsteeninitiative.org/campership.html. 

Jewish Federation of the North Shore: The Jewish Federation of the North Shore of Massachusetts has received a grant from the Jim Joseph Foundation to provide need based scholarships for children to attend Jewish preschools, Jewish day schools and Jewish overnight camps – www.jewishnorthshore.org.