Change a Child’s Life This Summer
Help send 20 kids to Summer Camp! Your gift of $650 sends one child to camp, where they’ll find hope, build friendships, and discover their potential.
For children grappling with poverty, homelessness, or family hardships, summer camp offers a vital escape to heal and thrive. Your gift helps 22 children build confidence, make friends, and discover their potential.
Our goal is to raise $14,500 to ensure every child who dreams of camp can experience this life-changing opportunity.
With your support, the children in our program today will become the leaders and change-makers of tomorrow.
Why Camp Matters.
Housing insecurity casts a heavy shadow over children, disrupting their development with chronic stress, academic challenges, and emotional turmoil during their most formative years. Many of our kids face unstable living conditions, moving between shelters or temporary homes, unsure of where they’ll sleep next.
Summer camp becomes their sanctuary—a place where they can set aside fear and uncertainty, immerse themselves in joyful activities like teamwork and exploration, and build lasting friendships that nurture resilience. Your generous gift transforms their summer, giving them a chance to heal, rediscover hope, and embrace childhood.
Meet the Kids
Terriana
Terriana’s mom is fighting cancer, but summer camp gave her a week of joy, new friends, and hope. Your donation can make this happen!
Steven
For Steven, home means battling homelessness, but at summer camp, he can learn more about who he is and who he wants to be. Your $650 gift sends kids like Steven to camp!
Lela and Lolah
Lolah and Lela, who met at For the Need, face hardships at home. Summer camp offers them joyful memories and lasting friendships. Your gift creates these moments for them!
What Your Gift Could Do
Sweet Dreams Sleeping Bag
$25
Send a child to summer camp with a sleeping bag they can keep forever.
Welcome to Camp Kit
$50
This funds the care packages we send with the child, including any supplies they might need to have the best experience possible, including sleeping bags, clothes, socks, and more.
Enjoy the Journey
$300
Lack of transportation is a major barrier for the children in our program. That is why we provide a safe ride to and from camp
Fully Fund One Child
$650
Fully support the transformative experience of summer camp for a child. As camp approaches, we will share some fun facts about your camper! Reach out to us if you know of a particular child you would like to support.
All donations are 100% Tax-Deductible. Tax ID: 81-0657985
About the Camps
Children in our program choose which camp to attend.
Christian Teen Camp
Teen Camp provides an incredible retreat experience where teenagers get to deeply explore their faith while having a blast doing it. Each day is filled with lessons from scripture, fun competitions, team bonding, and friendship. The memories they make and the practical lessons they learn will stay with them wherever they go.
The profound and enduring impact these campers will expereience is priceless.
Christian Youth Camp
The Christian Youth Camp provides an incredible overnight "mountain top experience" where a child gets to experience God in a pressure-free zone with other kids their age. As these children are in middle school, the major emphasis is FUN and learning that Christianity doesn't have to be boring.
Each day is filled with epic water wars, crafts, competitions, free time, good food, and lessons centered around the Bible. With stargazing, hiking, competitions, and more, the fun is never-ending. The camp counselors and staff are incredible people, there as volunteers to love and care about the campers all week long.
Most importantly, the campers get to experience a home away from home where all their worries are left behind for just a glimpse of time.
Camp Bob Waldorf
For the Need partners with Camp Bob Waldorf, a remarkable nonprofit dedicated to offering transformative camp experiences to children facing adversity, ensuring they feel loved, valued, and understood in a nurturing environment. This exceptional camp welcomes kids from second grade through their senior year of high school, spanning ages seven to eighteen, providing a unique opportunity for a diverse group to grow together.
This six-day overnight adventure immerses campers in a vibrant world of exploration, where they forge lifelong friendships, savor nutritious meals, and dive into exciting activities like rock climbing, swimming lessons, horseback riding, and stargazing under the night sky.
Above all, Camp Bob Waldorf creates a safe, joyful haven where kids can escape challenges like housing insecurity or family struggles, rediscovering the carefree spirit of childhood. Your generous gift helps For the Need send these deserving children to camp, giving them memories and confidence to carry forward.
A word from Allie Spaccarelli, director of For the Need.
Thank you for giving and helping us make this experience a reality for children who need it the most. Youth Camp and Teen Camp changed my life forever. It was at these camps that I was able to explore God and my own faith freely with loving camp counselors who I will never forget. It was their love for me and the lessons I heard and the people I met and learned from who inspired me to be the person I am today, where my faith and my calling to give back inform everything that I do.
Our Mission
Donations raised beyond our goal will go directly back into For the Need, for Summer Camp next year and to help us achieve our mission to provide a foundation for underprivileged youth to overcome life's difficult challenges, discover opportunity, and realize their own unique potential.
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