Stomping Ground Annual Fund

THE GOAL: 50% of campers on full or partial Scholarship by 2025

RIGHT NOW WE’RE AT 40%.

Building a radically empathetic community starts with collecting campers, staff and leadership who are radically different from one another. 

Last year we gave away $265,000 in scholarships.

Our goal this year is to give away $340,000.

WHY?

We recognize that most children today grow up in siloed communities with homogeneous populations.

According to the Urban Institute, while overall levels of segregation in American communities are declining, progress is too slow. Healthy stable communities can not grow while segregation, exclusion, and inequality persist. As kids we form so much of our world view from the people in our lives and the environments we are exposed to. If kids grow up with friends, neighbors, and peers who tend to all identify similarly it is harder to build empathy across racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic lines. At Stomping Ground, we consciously break this  mold to build bridges across differences. When kids live and learn in a community that holds many world views and perspectives, they grow to become more inclusive and humbly curious.

Help us build bridges by giving to the Annual Fund to support Camper Scholarships.