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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
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Fresh Air Fund

A few weeks ago I received an email from a lady named Sara Wilson in New York. She said she was associated with some group that wanted a mention on my blog. I was busy at the time and simply ignored it without checking it out. Last week she sent a second email. Today I received a third. Three times is a charm with me and I actually read the email and checked it out. Persistence like that deserves some kind of pay-off. After a bit of research to be sure I wasn’t endorsing a scam of some kind I’m happy to give her organization the mention she requested. You’ll notice there is now a link to the Fresh Air Fund on the sidebar, and a banner at the bottom of single posts.

I had never heard of the Fresh Air Fund before, but they are certainly nothing new. Here’s the first paragraph from the Wikipedia entry about them:

The Fresh Air Fund is an independent, not-for-profit agency that provides free summer vacations to New York City children from low-income communities. Jenny Morgenthau is the Executive Director.

More than 1.7 million children have been helped since 1877 and nearly 10,000 New York City children now enjoy free Fresh Air Fund programs annually. In 2009, 5,000 children visited volunteer host families in suburbs and small town communities across 13 states from Virginia to Maine and Canada; 3,000 children attended five summer camps on a 2,300-acre (9 km2) site in Fishkill, New York; and The Fund’s year-round camping program serves an additional 2,000 young people each year.

In 2008, 75% of the total income of The Fund came from private individuals.

In the emails Sara sent me they were looking for host families to take their kids for summer vacation. Maple Ridge is a beautiful spot for this kind of thing. To tell you the truth. I considered taking part myself before realizing that our life would be boring, boring, boring for kids. So, younger people than us will have to take advantage of this opportunity. I hope a lot of people will. It sounds like the host families will get as much out of it as the children they help.

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