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NSDC Brings Holiday Cheer to Many Deserving Children

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.

North Shore 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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Bringing Camp Energy to Local School

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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Our Campers are Helping Others in Need

Thursday, August 4th, 2011

North Shore Day Camp Cares – and we show it along with our campers and their families in so many different ways.

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 to help Island Harvest feed the homeless. This is Island Harvest’s first Camp Food Drive and we were so pleased to do our part to make this a tremendous success.

Our campers also took part in helping to fund camper-ships to 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.

One of the ways in which we help is by having a camp-wide Swim-A-Thon.  Our campers gave it their all by either swimming or walking laps in our pools to raise money for inner city children who would otherwise not be able to attend summer camp. We keep track of what our campers accomplish and send home a record of the number of laps our campers swam (or walked for our non-swimmers).  The funds raised have truly made a difference in the lives of hundreds of children, and this year was no exception.  A HUGE thank you to our NSDC families and especially to our campers!  You have made such a difference in the lives of so many others!

It’s wonderful to see the proud faces of our campers who recognize their own selfless contributions. Through our STARFISH program we teach our campers that each individual can make a difference. Events like these show them that when each person does his or her part, together the impact is amazing!

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20 Years Providing Camp to Children in Need

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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North Shore Cares Day

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

Our buses rolled in filled with children holding brand-new toys! Every summer we set aside a day of camp that we call, “North Shore Cares Day”. On this day we come together as a camp community and strive to do something to help support a worthy cause. (more…)

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Morry’s Swim-A-Thon at NSDC

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

North Shore Day Camp families have helped make us one of the leading camps in funding “camper-ships” to 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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