The Cork Tucson Enjoyable Chili Prepare dinner-Off raises $31,000 to ship children to camp

We ship native children to weeklong YMCA, Scouting America (previously Boy Scouts) and Girl Scout in a single day camps, in addition to in a single day tenting at Camp Tatiyee for school-age youngsters with particular wants. New this yr had been scholarships for Flowing Wells college students to go to the in a single day Sky Camp on Mt. Lemmon.

So far, we’ve obtained 983 donations totaling $230,473.80 and spent $256,252 on scholarships to ship 423 Southern Arizona girls and boys to camp.

Camp scholarship numbers had been down from the proposal in any respect camps besides Camp Tatiyee, which had document curiosity from households in Pima County who’ve youngsters with particular wants. Tatiyee scholarships are $1,000 every week, the most important scholarship of the camps we sponsor.

Partial scholarships for 2025 in a single day camps had been:

• $10,200 for 25 Flowing Wells college students to go to Sky Camp on Mt. Lemmon.
• $11,818 for 30 girls and boys to go to Scouting America’s Camp Lawton on Mt. Lemmon.
• $17,462 for 50 Girl Scouts to go to Camp Whispering Pines on Mt. Lemmon.
• $72,000 for 72 women and boys with particular must go to Lions Camp Tatiyee in Pinetop-Lakeside.
• $144,772.50 for 246 women and boys to go to Triangle Y Ranch Camp in Oracle.

Since 1947, the Sportsmen’s Fund has helped pay for 44,814 youngsters to go to in a single day camp. We’re one of many oldest 501(c )(3) charities in Arizona and one of the vital environment friendly, with 97 cents from each greenback going to ship children to camp.

Your contribution to the Arizona Daily Star Sportsmen’s Fund Send a Kid to Camp fund qualifies for the Arizona tax credit score for donations to qualifying charitable organizations. Our code is 20450. Joint Arizona filers can donate as much as $987 for 2025 taxes, and different Arizona filers can donate as much as $495 for 2025. Our EIN is 86-6053274, which is required for some fund transfers.

Credit-card donations and particulars on the camps we sponsor: azsendakidtocamp.org

Send checks, payable to Sportsmen’s Fund, to: Send a Kid to Camp, P.O. Box 16141, Tucson, AZ 85732-6141

For extra data: Debbie Kornmiller at 520-954-3139 or [email protected]

Donations are welcome all year long.

Recent donations embrace:

Deb Castiglia, in reminiscence of Kenneth Johnson, $400.

Roberta Hanson and Frank Sciannella, $250.

The Salpointe Class of 1967 Lunch Bunchers, $150.

Marlene and Bill Wright, $25.