Partnership Drive
Every kid deserves the chance to belong to a community that values their individuality, perspectives, and identity. Partnering with community agencies has been core to Stomping Grounds mission since the very beginning. Each year we bring dozens of kids to camp on full scholarships from a variety of organizations all across the capital region and beyond. Help us make it possible to bring more kids to camp this summer.
Our aim is to fund up to 50 community scholarships this year.
Find out more about our partnerships below
CAPTAIN
CAPTAIN Community Human Services supports and empowers people of all ages to reach their goals of personal growth and self-sufficiency. We strengthen communities.
As a volunteer-driven organization, CAPTAIN CHS strives to be a recognized leader in finding effective solutions to social issues in the communities we serve.
Ali Forney Center
The Ali Forney Center was founded in 2002 in memory of Ali Forney, a homeless gender-nonconforming youth who was forced to live on the streets, where they were tragically murdered.
Committed to saving the lives of LGBTQ+ young people, our mission is to protect them from the harms of homelessness and empower them with the tools needed to live independently.
Frank Chapman Memorial Institute
In September, 1995 the Frank Chapman Memorial Institute evolved from being a after-school tutoring club to a non-profit organization that would provide the community with resources that were not available to the inner city residents.
FCMI is driven to supply its service area residents the life skills, work training, and personal development resources, necessary for the quality-of-life improvement of each resident and the overall community. FCMI offers a well-rounded bridge to hope to all ages.
Franklin Community Center
Our mission is to work collaboratively with individuals and other agencies to provide services that will improve the quality of life and foster a sense of neighborhood, community and family for all people.
Project Lift, a Franklin Community Center Program, is a free after school prevention program held in all six of the Saratoga Springs School District elementary schools for students in grades 1 through 5. The over-all goal is to work with identified students and their families who are referred to the program by utilizing a unique, comprehensive approach that includes research-based curriculum and places emphasis on positive youth development activities, raising self-esteem and the development of refusal, decision-making, problem solving, and communication skills.
Brooklyn Emerging Leaders Academy
Brooklyn Emerging Leaders Academy (BELA) Charter School is a family. At BELA, girls receive more than an education. Here, they find a home. They are challenged by a rigorous curriculum while surrounded and supported by the attention of a community that cares deeply and is committed to both their academic and personal success. In this safe and nurturing space, they are empowered to be their authentic selves and to fulfill their individual promise.
BELA exists to empower each young woman to be the best version of herself. Through a rigorous college preparatory curriculum, service learning initiatives and a commitment to cultivating a spirit of ownership within each young woman, BELA students will attend and graduate from college.
Wellspring
Wellspring is the domestic violence and sexual assault services resource for Saratoga County and the sexual assault services resource for Washington County. Wellspring’s mission is to support survivors and engage our community to end relationship and sexual abuse.
Every year, we answer more than 1,000 calls on our 24/7 hotline – calls from your friends, neighbors, and family members.
George Jackson Academy
The mission of George Jackson Academy is to educate high-achieving boys, regardless of their families’ economic means, and to inspire courage, integrity, empathy and leadership. Students are presented with rigorous academic challenges that enable them to realize their highest potential. Founded in the Lasallian tradition — education of the head, the heart, and the spirit — the school is committed to graduating young men of character who excel in high school and beyond
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Albany
Our mission is to create and support professionally guided one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
Our vision is that all youth achieve their full potential. In partnership with six local colleges, universities, school districts, businesses, families, and the community at large, we create relationships that change lives for the better, forever.
Our purpose is to clear the path to a child’s biggest possible future. Over the long-term, our goal for our Littles is that they graduate by the time they are 18 years old with a path for their future and a mentor for a lifetime.
Rochester City School District
RCSD is the school distdrict for the city of Rochester, New York. It is home to 45 individual schools for K-12 students and 52 pre-K sites. Their mission is to foster students' individual talents and abilities in a nurturing environment of equity. Ensure all students equitable access to a high-quality education and graduate each student as a productive member of society.
Home of Roc Restorative, RCSD has implemented Restorative Justice in their schools and has become a leader in the RJ community.
Kelly’s Angels
Kelly’s Angels is a charitable organization that provides grants to benefit children in the Capital Region of New York State whose lives have been forever changed by the loss of a parent or sibling to cancer or other illness. Kelly's Angels Incorporated, was conceived by WNYT-TV anchor/reporter Mark Mulholland in memory of his late wife, Kelly, who lost her battle with cancer in 2007 at the age of 37.