The Coca Cola
Company® Again Funds Community Service Program for JCC
Summer Camps
JCC Association, through the generous sponsorship
of The Coca Cola Company®, is once more offering both
day and resident summer camps the opportunity to help their
communities through the JCC Association/Coca Cola Company
Days of Caring and Sharing community-service program. Thirty-two
day camps and seven resident camps have been awarded grants
to fund activities and projects focused on improving the world
we live in. To help ground the Days of Caring and Sharing
activities in Jewish values, JCC Association’s Mandel
Center for Jewish Education has developed companion curricular
units about tzedakah, the Jewish concept of justice and charity.
Patterned on the Days of Caring and Sharing
projects at the JCC Maccabi Games® each August, participating
camps spend a day working on service activities that contribute
to the welfare of the community. Ramapo for Children, a camp
in upstate New York that serves children with a wide range
of emotional, social, and learning problems, will be growing
a special garden and then donating the flowers in ceramic
vases the children make. Shemesh Day Camp at Valley of the
Sun JCC in Phoenix, Arizona will organize a carnival with
water rides for homeless children. Campers at David Posnak
JCC in Davie, Florida are welcoming 15 teens from Nesher,
Israel, the JCC’s Partnership 2000 sister city. The
youngest campers, ages 6-7, will collect reading books for
needy children in Nesher, and those books will be delivered
by the Israeli teens when they return home. Older campers
will make items to be given to sick children at local hospitals
and in Haifa.
JCC Association held training sessions for
the Days of Caring and Sharing program at its New York City
headquarters, as well as in California and the Midwest.
“From The Coca-Cola Company's perspective,
this program is not only a way to enhance the values of our
youth, but also a way for them to give back to local communities,”
said Quinton Martin, vice-president of community marketing,
Coca Cola North America. “They learn the meaning of
caring for one another, of sharing, of being responsible,
and of becoming leaders of today’s younger generation.”
JCC Association and The Coca Cola Company
have had a long-standing and very positive relationship. The
Coca Cola Company has been a continental sponsor of the JCC
Maccabi Games for over 14 years. JCC Association is very proud
of Coca Cola's support, and is particularly pleased to be
able to add this meaningful dimension to the camping experience.
The following camps are participating in the
2007 Coca-Cola grant program:
Day Camp Name
Albert and Ann Deshur JCC Rainbow Day Camp - Milwaukee, WI
Mandel JCC - Cleveland, OH
Anita M. Stone JCC - Flossmoor, IL
Bernard Horwich JCC - Chicago, IL
I.J. & Jeanne Wagner JCC - Salt Lake City, UT
Milton & Betty Katz JCC - Margate, NJ
Camp Centerland, JCC Greater Buffalo - Buffalo, NY
Camp Deeny Riback, MetroWest JCC - Whippany, NJ
Camp Isadore Alterman - Atlanta, GA
Camp “J”, Tucson JCC - Tucson, AZ
Camp Kadima, David Posnack JCC - Davie, FL
Camp Or Hashemesh, Golda Meir/Kent - Clearwater, FL
Camp Raanana, JCC of Washtenaw County - Ann Arbor, MI
Camp Sabra, Camp Habonim, Sports Specialty - Worcester, MA
Camp Shalom, Dayton JCC - Dayton, OH
Durham-Chapel Hill JCC Day Camp - Durham, NC
Hebrew Educational Society - Brooklyn, NY
JCC Camp Ted Weisberg, Adolph & Rose Levis JCC - Boca
Raton, FL
Hyde Park JCC - Chicago, IL
JCC of Houston Day Camp - Houston, TX
Lillian Schwartz Day Camp - Staten Island, NY
New Orleans JCC Summer Day Camp - New Orleans, LA
Noar/Bogrim Travel, JCC Greater Pittsburgh - Monroeville,
PA
Raleigh-Cary JCC - Raleigh, NC
Rose & Max Rady JCC Day Camps Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Samuel Field Y - Little Neck, NY
Shaw JCC of Akron - Akron, OH
Shemesh Day Camp, Valley of the Sun JCC - Scottsdale, AZ
Shorefront “Y”, Brighton-Manhattan Beach Inc.
- Brooklyn, NY
South Hills, JCC of Greater Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh, PA
York JCC - York, PA
Betty & Milton Katz JCC - Cherry Hill, NJ
Resident Camp Name
Camp Wise, JCC Cleveland - Beachwood, OH
Harry Bronfman Y Country Camp - Montreal Quebec, Canada
JCC Maccabi Camp Kingswood, JCC Greater Boston - Newton, MA
JCC Ranch Camp - Denver, CO
NJY Teen Camp - Fairfield, NJ
Ramapo for Children - Rhinebeck, NY
Tamarack Camp - Bloomfield Hills, MI
SUM TOTAL $77,550.00
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JCC Association
is the leadership network of, and central agency for the Jewish
Community Center Movement, which is comprised of 350 JCC,
YM-YWHA and camp sites in the U. S. and Canada. JCC Association
offers a wide range of services and resources to strengthen
the capacity of its affiliates to provide educational, cultural,
social, Jewish identity-building, and recreational programs
to enhance the lives of North American Jews of all ages and
backgrounds. Additionally, the movement fosters and strengthens
connections between North American Jews and Israel as well
as with world Jewry. JCC Association is also the U.S. government
accredited agency for serving the religious and social needs
of Jewish military personnel, their families, and patients
in VA hospitals through JWB Jewish Chaplains Council.
Miriam
Rinn
Communications Manager
JCC Association
520 8th Ave., NY, NY 10018
212-786-5092
fax: 212-481-4174
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