Since 1893, Cambridge Camping has served nearly 25,000 children from under-resourced families by providing exceptional summer camp programs. Today, the organization serves 450 kids each year through day and overnight camps. Unfortunately it also manages a sizable waitlist for its highly coveted programs. 

Camp fosters, friendship, curiosity, and a bigger sense of the world. 

These programs are ideal settings for building friendships, interacting with nature, and developing healthy behaviors. Camp promotes outdoor activities that allow children to unplug from technology and plug into the world around them, connecting with other people and sparking curiosity.  

“It is such a relief as a parent to know that [our daughter] spent five weeks thriving. The change at night was astonishing. Her stress level was so incredibly reduced, she was her best, wonderful self. You gave us such an incredible gift these past five weeks. I think we will all be sobbing when camp ends.” —Parent of a DayBreak Camper

Summer camp is critical to academic success. 

"[In summer] low income children also lose, on average, more than two months of reading skills — and they don’t gain them back. That puts them nearly three years behind higher income peers by the end of fifth grade, and the gap just keeps getting wider. Researchers credit the summer slide for about half of the overall difference in academic achievement between lower and higher income students." —The Families That Can't Afford Summer, NYT 2016

Join these CLF members in sponsoring the 125th Birthday Bash. 
 

Cambridge Savings Bank 

Cambridge Trust Company 

Eastern Bank 

The Charles Hotel