Summer Funding
Congregation Agudas Achim:
Aytz Chaim Foundation Grants
Applications Due February 15!
Looking for Summer Camp, Group Travel, or Israel Trip Scholarships?
Aytz Chaim Grants could be the answer!
Look what we have supported in the past:
- Jewish summer camps and summer travel programs
- Study or Missions in Israel
- USY and Kadima conferences and conventions
Let Aytz Chaim help grant your wish!.
More information and applications are available here
Foundation for Jewish Camp:
One Happy Camper Grants
Considering Jewish overnight camp for the first time? Your child may be eligible for a need-blind grant of up to $1000 this summer! Learn more about One Happy Camper grants, whether you’re eligible, and how to apply.
Jewish Children’s Regional Service
At the JCRS, we recognize the value of Jewish sleep-away camp as a unique opportunity for fun, personal growth, and Jewish identity-building. The JCRS would like all interested children to have this opportunity, but we recognize that for many families the high cost of overnight camp is prohibitive.
- Children must reside in the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee or Texas.
Website: https://jcrs.org/services/camp-scholarship-aid/
RootOne Vouchers
RootOne Vouchers are available for Jewish teens who are entering 10th, 11th, or 12th grade and are participating in an eligible summer trip. Vouchers are limited and are not guaranteed.
Website: https://www.rootone.org
Summer Camps
CYJ Texas
Since 1952, CYJ Texas has given thousands of Jewish children life-changing summers. We offer a fun, inclusive, challenging, action-packed, safe environment where campers can play, grow, and make lifelong friendships. Year after year our campers go home with a love of Judaism and a strong connection to Israel. We foster personal growth by encouraging all our campers to try new things and build new skills each and every summer.
Website: www.cyjtexas.org
Email: info@cyjtexas.org
Phone: 713-723-8354
Ramah Darom
Located in Clayton, GA
Camp Ramah Darom is a place where laughter abounds, friendships are formed, everyone feels welcome and each day brings new opportunities to celebrate Jewish life. Here, children have fun and are challenged to reach new heights by our caring and supportive staff. From sports to arts to outdoor adventures, Ramah Darom infuses a love of Israeli culture and Jewish heritage into everything we do.
Website: ramahdarom.org
Email: jweiss@ramahdarom.org
Telephone: 470.344.2191
JCamps @ Shalom Austin
Shalom Austin JCamps is open and ready for the best summer ever! Our trained staff are dedicated to providing a safe space for campers while maintaining the normalcy of being with friends. Kids will enjoy everything the JCC has to offer, from large indoor spaces and a gymnasium to the lush grounds and outdoor fields! Each day, campers will participate in outside activities, crafts, plus JCamps traditions like song session and flagpole!
Website: https://shalomaustin.org/camp/
6 Points Academy
Specialty Camps
1) 6 Points Sports Academy: http://6pointssports.org/
2) 6 Points Sci-Tech Academy: http://6pointsscitech.org/
3) 6 Points Creative Arts Academy: http://6pointscreativearts.org/
Greene Family Camp
Each year, we create a summer program that immerses our campers and staff in camp magic. Amidst all the fun they have at camp, campers at GFC learn independence, make new friends and deepen existing friendships, gain confidence in themselves, and so much more! From the ropes course and zip line, to the lake, to our two pools, to endless sports and arts activities, tending the garden, singing around the campfire, bonding with bunkmates, to spending Shabbat as a community, GFC memories last a lifetime.
Website: https://greene.org/
Summer Teen Programs & Travel
USY Summer Programs
North America: https://www.usy.org/summer/trips-in-north-america/
Israel/Europe:
https://www.usy.org/yuval
Ramah Israel Programs
Ramah Israel programs foster lifelong connections to the land, history, people, and culture of Israel. We deliver innovative education that explores the historical ties of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel, as well as the complexities and challenges of the modern State of Israel. We invite our participants to enhance their connection to Judaism and Jewish identity by traveling the country and engaging with our outstanding educators, guides, and guest speakers. We emphasize Hebrew language through formal and informal instruction.
Website: https://www.ramah.org.il
Tikvah Scholars Program
The Tikvah Scholars Program at Yale University is an 11-day residential summer institute for current 10th and 11th graders. We seek students who want to think deeply about serious questions, push their intellectual limits, and read the great works of the Jewish canon and of Western thought with world-class faculty in a vibrant and pluralistic community of students from around the world. The program seeks to advance Jewish excellence in the modern age by exposing some of the best Jewish students to the most important foundational questions in politics, economics, Zionist thought, and Judaism, guided by some of the top teachers, scholars, and policy makers.
Tikvah also has programs, classes, and experiential learning opportunities from middle school through college.
Websites: https://tikvahfund.org/hs/tsp2024/home/ https://tikvahfund.org/educational-programs/
Abarbanel Summer Seminar
Spend three weeks this summer studying in Leiden, site of the Netherlands’ oldest university and Rembrandt’s hometown. This college-level course will explore the complex interplay of politics, religion, art, science, and economics that gave birth to the modern world. You’ll study key historical and philosophical texts in small seminars of no more than ten students complemented by visits to museums and cultural venues throughout the region, from Amsterdam to Antwerp.
Students will have opportunities to socialize with Dutch Jews their own age, building bonds of friendship and mutual understanding between different Jewish communities.
The Abarbanel Summer Seminar is designed with observant Jewish teens in mind. Kosher food will be provided for all meals and Shabbat will be spent with the Jewish communities of Leiden and Amsterdam.
Website: https://www.abarbanelinstitute.org/