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You can support Camp Tawonga's programming and impact in several ways:
- Make an investment in Camp Tawonga's campership program, thus enabling children of any economic background to experience the joy and magic of a summer at Camp.
- Support Camp's program fund, enabling staff to innovate and create new programmatic initiatives that strengthen Camp's ongoing effort to help children and young adults build their sense of self-esteem, their connection to Jewish life and their engagement with the natural world.
- Donate to Tawonga's facilities maintenance and ensure that our physical plant reflects the same excellence as do our efforts to create meaningful experience for kids and staff.
Additional information about the people and programs your investment supports:
Tawonga Programs are renowned for helping children become both more self-reliant and more committed contributors to their communities. Camp teaches children valuable outdoor and group leadership skills and deepens their appreciation for Jewish values and Jewish community. At camp we use a group-centered approach, in which children work together to determine their activity schedule for the session and spend the majority of each day with their bunkmates.
Camp Tawonga's youngest campers experience the magic of a community in which every person is honored and appreciated while also being encouraged and challenged to grow beyond their perceived limitations. Children who spend summer after summer at Tawonga talk about looking forward to "giving back" one day. Tawonga programs create opportunities for teen campers to continue their Camp experience even when they have outgrown typical Camp programs. Teens' self-reliance and independence are further developed through participation in our two and three week out-of-camp Quest programs, overseas service learning trips and counselor and specialist in training programs.
Each summer Tawonga brings a group of Israeli teens to Camp to participate as both campers and CITs. Bay Area and Israeli teens develop deep and abiding friendships through their time together, friendships that become the basis of a deeper understanding of, and commitment to, Israel.
Tawonga also invests in bringing 10-15 Israeli staff to Camp annually - to work with their peers and serve as role models for campers and North American staff alike. Relationships formed with these post-army Israelis deepen the personal connection Tawonga staff members feel to Israel as they begin their adult lives.
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