Showing posts with label camping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label camping. Show all posts
Friday, December 16, 2011
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Friday, November 11, 2011
Friday, October 21, 2011
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
The Sunshine Fund
What is the Sunshine Fund? Maybe you have heard a little bit about it but below you will find out exactly what the Sunshine Fund is.
Continue to follow our blog and you can learn about all our member camps, all our policies and why we love camp and why we want every Manitoba child to go to camp.
The Sunshine Fund
The Sunshine Fund was started by the Winnipeg Free Press and the Manitoba Camping Association (MCA). The goal was to provide the camp experience to children in Manitoba whose parent's couldn't afford to send them. Since then the Sunshine Fund has been administered by the MCA.
What does the Sunshine Fund do?
The Sunshine Fund still sends Manitoba children to Accredited Manitoba summer camps.
How does the Sunshine Fund do this?
We raise money throughout the whole year and starting in February/March we start accepting applications sent in by parents that need help.
Our application has several sections to it for us to determine if a family qualifies or not. We base our acceptance on the total family income of the family based on how many people live in the house.
Continue to follow our blog and you can learn about all our member camps, all our policies and why we love camp and why we want every Manitoba child to go to camp.
The Sunshine Fund
The Sunshine Fund was started by the Winnipeg Free Press and the Manitoba Camping Association (MCA). The goal was to provide the camp experience to children in Manitoba whose parent's couldn't afford to send them. Since then the Sunshine Fund has been administered by the MCA.
What does the Sunshine Fund do?
The Sunshine Fund still sends Manitoba children to Accredited Manitoba summer camps.
How does the Sunshine Fund do this?
We raise money throughout the whole year and starting in February/March we start accepting applications sent in by parents that need help.
Our application has several sections to it for us to determine if a family qualifies or not. We base our acceptance on the total family income of the family based on how many people live in the house.
The chart above shows our income requirements from summer 2011 (please note that these numbers are subject to change for summer 2012).
Parents are still required to pay a portion of the camp fee to the Sunshine Fund. For example, if you were to fall into Level B, you would need to pay 20% of the camp fee to the Sunshine Fund. So if your child's camp fee cost $200, the parent contribution would be $40. (Again these percentages were for 2011 and are subject to change for 2012).
So this is a basic outline of the Sunshine Fund. I will continue to post more details about applying, what you need when applying and any other questions you might have for us.
If you do have questions please post them in the comments section below or email our Program Coordinator Janis at sunshinefund@mbcamping.ca.
Cheers,
Friday, May 9, 2008
May 21, 2008 is Sunshine Day
On May 21, 2008, the Winnipeg Free Press Sunshine Fund, in partnership with A&W, will have it’s very first Sunshine Day in Manitoba. All the proceeds from the sale of A&W Root Beer and Coffee will be donated to the Sunshine Fund to help send Manitoba Children to Manitoba Accredited Camps.
In addition, you can also help send a child to camp by purchasing a Ray of Sunshine from A&W Restaurants for only $1 between May 12-21. Fill your name out on a Yellow Sun and help send a child to camp. This sun will be added to the walls of the Restaurant.
This will be happening at all A&W locations in Winnipeg, Selkirk, Lockport, Portage & Steinbach.
PS - Did you know that Manitoba is the only province in the country to have a "Sunshine Fund?" Founded in 1979 and thanks to the generous donations of Manitobans the fund has raised nearly $4.0 million dollars and sent more than 18,000 kids to camp.
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
MCA To Attend Weekend Exhibit Fairs
The MCA & Sunshine Fund will be setting up a display booth at the Portage Home, Leisure & Sport Expo event this Friday (6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.) & Saturday (9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.) at the Portage Canad Inn Warehouse.
On Sunday, we will be attending the 2007 Winnipeg Parent Family Fun & Learning Fair. This will be held from 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. at the Assiniboine Park Conservatory.
Come check out all the action, pick up your 2007 Camp Directory, or obtain information on the Sunshine Fund.
On Sunday, we will be attending the 2007 Winnipeg Parent Family Fun & Learning Fair. This will be held from 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. at the Assiniboine Park Conservatory.
Come check out all the action, pick up your 2007 Camp Directory, or obtain information on the Sunshine Fund.
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
2006 Stats
In 2006 the Sunshine Fund did the following:
- Placed 569 children in 26 different camps
- of those 569 children 245 or 43.06% were new to the Sunshine Fund
- paid out $173,000.00 in camperhips
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Sunshine Fund gets a blog.
This is the new home of the Manitoba Camping Association/Winnipeg Free Press Sunshine Fund Blog.
The Sunshine Fund enables Manitoba children who do not have the financial means through parents, guardians or agencies, an opportunity to attend an accredited Manitoba summer camp.
The Sunshine Fund is administered by the Manitoba Camping Association with publicity sponsorship from the Winnipeg Free Press. 100% of donations are used directly for payment of camp fees.
Since 1979 over 3 million dollars has been raised to provide over 14,000 summer camp experiences.
The Sunshine Fund enables Manitoba children who do not have the financial means through parents, guardians or agencies, an opportunity to attend an accredited Manitoba summer camp.
The Sunshine Fund is administered by the Manitoba Camping Association with publicity sponsorship from the Winnipeg Free Press. 100% of donations are used directly for payment of camp fees.
Since 1979 over 3 million dollars has been raised to provide over 14,000 summer camp experiences.
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