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Archive for the ‘TLC Foundation’ Category
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
This holiday season, the TLC Family of Camps have come together to help out families in need with the Boys and Girls Club of Glen Cove by collecting toys and other small gifts for their Club Bucks program.
 During the holiday season, the Club Bucks program is offered to the club’s children as an incentive program. Here, they earn “Club Bucks” for completing various tasks and doing good deeds, such as helping a staff person, getting an A on a test, doing all their homework, helping another friend, participate in an educational activity, etc. At the end of the program, each child has the opportunity to “shop” in the Holiday Store to purchase gifts and toys for their siblings or other family members. Some of the items collected were: stuffed animals, bracelets, gloves, socks, t-shirts and various children’s toys. The goal of the program is to convey the importance of “giving” during this holiday season – giving of their time, effort and service – and giving of gifts to loved ones.
 Our day school, North Shore Day School, also led a food drive to help support LI Cares, a hunger action organization which distributed the canned goods we collected to local shelters and families in need.
Hampton Country Day Camp is proud to support the Boys and Girls Club & LI Cares during this season of giving and everyone here at camp wishes you a wonderful holiday and a very happy New Year!
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Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
 The TLC Family of Camps have been proud participants of the Mentoring Partnership of Long Island for the past 5 years. Dedicated to our camp organization’s mission of building self-esteem and self-confidence, more than 15 members of our full-time team travel to the Gribben Elementary School in Glen Cove twice a month to run programs for “at-risk” children.
 This past week, students got to make a holiday garland of wishes, where they got to write their wishes for the New Year on snowflakes, candy canes and gingerbread men. Whether it’s teaching a cooking class, running team-building games, or just spending quality one-on-one time with the ‘mentees’, every mentoring program is intentionally designed to inject some “camp” energy into our local elementary school.
  
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Thursday, August 4th, 2011
At Hampton Country Day Camp, our campers do more than just have fun – They get involved in giving back to the community that they enjoy so much summer after summer through our camp’s Helping Hands Program.
This summer, our campers had the opportunity to participate in making other children’s lives better by bringing in canned and packaged food from home for the East Hampton Food Pantry. The Food Pantry then distributes the food to needy families on the East End, including more than 1,000 children. (Click HERE to read an article that was recently written in the East Hampton Star about our wonderful program and our even more wonderful campers!)
Our campers also took part in helping to fund camperships to attend Morry’s Camp. Morry’s Camp is a unique four-week program which guarantees four summers of camp to under-privileged children who keep up with their school work and are positive role models in their community. (more…)
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Thursday, April 14th, 2011
The TLC Family of Camps was in full attendance on April 6th, 2011 for SCOPE’s (Summer Camp Opportunities Provide an Edge) annual dinner at the Marriott Marquis in Manhattan. This was a milestone year for SCOPE – 20 years of providing valuable camp experiences for economically disadvantaged children, through “camperships”. As one of the founders of SCOPE, our Director, Jay Jacobs, was featured last week in the Wall Street Journal as the “Donor of the Day” for all that he does in support of this vital organization and his continued efforts through the TLC Foundation to help others in need.
Each year more than 1,600 children receive the benefits of summer camp through funds raised by SCOPE and since it’s founding in 1991, more than 15,000 low-income youths have received summer camp scholarships. SCOPE helps children escape from the urban setting to safe environments which foster positive self-esteem, strong self-confidence, and appropriate social skills. Summer camp affords these children the opportunity to leave the boredom, pollution, and potential dangers of a city summer and instead experience a supervised, caring community surrounded by positive adult role models.
The TLC Family of Camps was proud to show their support for SCOPE, and to also pay tribute to this year’s honorees who have all touched the lives of so many children: Jancy & Bill Dorfman, Greg Finger (in memoriam), and Arthur Fishelman.
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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Hampton Country Day Camp counselors volunteered their time this past weekend to help run various fun games and activities at The Children’s Museum of the East End’s Summer Family Fair. The CMEE is a non-profit museum located in Bridgehampton that strives to create a space for families to actively share in their children’s growth. This wonderful place of discovery was designed to provide interactive experiences that foster curiosity in children and create a lifelong love of self-directed learning.
It was a great day all-around with many Hampton Country Day Camp families in attendance!
To read more about this great event, click here!
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Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
At HCDC, we believe in supporting our extended family out here in the Hamptons, and we had the chance to participate in a great community event last Saturday. Hampton Country Day Camp counselors spear-headed hours of fun, games and activities for children of all ages who attended the Breath of the Hamptons Cystic Fibrosis Foundation benefit. The event was held at the beautiful home of Jeffrey Altman in Bridgehampton, raising money to help fund vital research in its search for a cure of this genetic disease.
As part of the TLC Family of Camps and the TLC Foundation, HCDC supports many different causes through out the year. You can read more about our philanthropic efforts here.
Kudos to our counselors for a spectacular weekend event!
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Monday, April 19th, 2010
Happy Days are here again – Literally! I recently attended the American Camping Association conference in New Jersey, and had the thrill of meeting someone I’d watched on TV as a kid. Okay, so I’m probably dating myself here, but for me, Happy Days was what I watched religiously on Channel 7, ABC. And at the conference, I got to meet – yes – “The Fonz”, Henry Winkler. (more…)
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During the holiday season, the Club Bucks program is offered to the club’s children as an incentive program. Here, they earn “Club Bucks” for completing various tasks and doing good deeds, such as helping a staff person, getting an A on a test, doing all their homework, helping another friend, participate in an educational activity, etc. At the end of the program, each child has the opportunity to “shop” in the Holiday Store to purchase gifts and toys for their siblings or other family members. Some of the items collected were: stuffed animals, bracelets, gloves, socks, t-shirts and various children’s toys. The goal of the program is to convey the importance of “giving” during this holiday season – giving of their time, effort and service – and giving of gifts to loved ones.
Our day school, North Shore Day School, also led a food drive to help support LI Cares, a hunger action organization which distributed the canned goods we collected to local shelters and families in need.
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