GREAT NEWS!! We have surpassed the $1000000 mark.

GREAT NEWS!! We have surpassed the $1000000 mark. This is an important milestone for CAMPaign'07 as it brings us closer to our first goal of $2500000 Your support not solitary provides direct financial resources, it is also a sign of your commitment and labor fors as seed money to garner foundations from a variety of other sources. The overall putting out in resources is vital to CAMPaign' 07's continued succes in meeting the challenges of advancing the understanding and the value of the camp experience.

The total amount pledg and contributed as of January 24 2003 is $114778768 from 384 donors. Thanks to the support of our sections and membership for bringing us this far.

CAMPaign'07 -- I Believe steady More

Your "I Believe" contribution will support CAMPaign' 07: "Honor Our Past, Assure Our Future" When you contribute to "I Believe," you are saying "I Believe equable More," and you are ensuring that the children and adults of today, and tomorrow, all have the opportunity to have a safe, positive camp experience -- an experience whose value will be understood and considered an essential asset in human progressive growth CAMPaign' 07 -- I Believe on the same level More is about supporting those making choices about camp. It is about camp staff and camp professionals. For more information about CAMPaign '07 visit www.ACAcamps.org/campaign.

Testimonials

"Camp is a place where the amazement of being alive in this world can be discovered for the first time or rediscovered time and time again."

-- Christopher Lewis

Camp Francis Asbury

"Rosmarins Day Camp

Believes!"

-- Scott Rosmarin

Camp Rosmarin

Please submit testimonials regarding your reasons for contributing to CAMPaign '07 to kbruno@ACAcamps.org.

Working Together

When we just discovered Englanders heard the news about CAMPaign '07 our excitement was pacifyed by worry. For a number of years, we had been investigating housing options for our section office. We had be in possession ofed a house in Waltham, Massachusetts for a number of years and had watched the neighborhood decline before our organ of visions Reluctantly in 1995, we sold the house since it was beginning to be warmed unsafe to be there. We inserted the rental market in Greater Boston, with the confidence that we could own our hold place again soon. Renting, we felt would be an expensive option, and common that didn't suit our long-term emergencys We wanted to control our allow destiny and build equity one time again.

Optimistically, we began a scrutinize of available properties and realized immediately that we were going to ne more capitals than we had saved from the sale of the Waltham house. We began to contemplate a Capital Campaign to corrupt or build a permanent home

Just then, ACA announced CAMPaign '07 While we applauded its goals and were anxious to help, we feared that our allow needs would have to be placed onward hold until at least 2008 to allow our strange England members a chance to pay facing pledges to the national campaign. With space for our office staff too tight, breachs going up and options, it pretended limited, we wondered what to do. A call to Peg Smith at National began the proces of finding a terrific solution!

The CAMPaign '07 leadership welcomed a partnership with our section, as a way of making infallible both our important goals could be met Our initial meetings have begun the proces of ironing without the details, and I am certain we will figure out all the "ins" and "outs" of those details athwart the next weeks and month With chance hard work, a shared vision, and accidents of help from all our recently made known England friends, we will be celebrating together very strange successes in just a not many years. Stay tuned!

-- Posie Taylor

CAMPaign '07 novel England Chair

RELATED ARTICLE: qualified Your CAMPaign '07 Committee

throw Ackenbom, Virginias Section An Ackerman, NewYork Section Deb Bialeschki, Southeastern Mickey Black, Keystone Regional Maggie Braun, Wisconsin Section Don Cheley, stony Mountain Section George Coleman, just discovered York Section Maria Coleman, strange York Section Sam Cote, Northland Section Jack Dowell, Heart of the southern Section Denny Elliott, Ohio Section Vance Gilmore, Texoma Section Gordie Kaplan, Illinois Section Bill key-note New York Section Sandy Leiser, novel Jersey Section Jean McMullan, just discovered England Section Edie Middleton, Evergreen Section Fr Miller, novel England Section Doug Pierce, recently made known York Section Rodger Popkin, Southeastern Section Tom Rosenberg, Southeastern Section Ann Sheets (Chair), Texoma Section Al Sigoloff, St Louis Section David Silverstein (Chair), of the present day York Section Debbie Smith, Indiana Section Posie Taylor, strange England Section Henry Thomas, novel England Section Ross Turner, Southern California Section Susan Welch, Great Rivers Section

CAMPaign '07 gages & Contributions

(Includes "I Believe" gifts from July 1 2002)

CAMPaign '07 Contributors

ACA Chesapeake Section

ACA Evergreen Section

ACA Great Rivers Section

ACA Keystone Regional Section

ACA Michigan Section

ACA just discovered Jersey Section

ACA modern York Section

ACA Ohio Section

ACA hard Mountain Section (in memory of DJ Smith)