Venture Foundation is the Charitable Fundraising Arm of Camp Venture. It was founded to create public awareness about the Camp Venture
organization and the people with developmental disabilities who live and
work here.
Since 1984 the Venture Foundation has been winning the hearts and minds of
the people here by offering a host of community events so that our friends
and neighbors might get to know and support us.
Special Events
Last updated: May 23, 2010
Come Join us at the
12th Annual Kathy Lukens Memorial Golf Tournament
Camp Venture needs your support more than ever!
Sign up or join a fouresome in the morning or the afternoon, or
become a tournament sponsor where your donation will underwrite the significantcostsof this annual golf event so that the greatest share of the proceeds will directly benefit children and adults with developmental disabilities at CampVenture.
Click on the blue star to to register to play or to become a sponsor.
The Venture - Foundation Focus Newsletter is available!
Click on the image to view the newsletter.
Indoor Therapeutic Equestrian Center CampaignSite work well underway
The Equestrian Center program is located at Camp Venture’s north campus in Stony Point, New York, and is under the close supervision of Sheriff Jim Kralik and the Rockland County Sheriff Deputies Association. Right now you can help us stretch our fund-raised dollars by asking companies and individuals to consider donating materials to complete the job. As site work progresses we will need gravel and clean fill to level the site and to create a floor in the arena suitable for horses. Individuals have been making their donations through various programs for the past two years to support this new building campaign, and the greatest boost came from the grant made by Senator Tom Morahan last year.
If you would like to contribute, please click here or call the Venture Foundation, (845) 624-5402, to discuss other giving opportunities; right now we plan to open the center in the Spring of 2010.
Dan Lukens message about the 2009-10 Venture Annual Appeal
Dear Friend in the Venture Family,
I am writing to ask for your support. The past
year, I imagine, has been a diffi cult one for
you and your family. Concerns over our jobs,
retirement accounts and the future are what’s
on everyone’s mind these days. And, though
there does seem to be some signs that things
might be getting a little better, I appreciate
that these are hard times and that your priorities
have to be with your own needs.
Over the past year, CampVenture has also
struggled.
We’ve experienced some significant budget reductions in the 2009 fi scal year,
and more and deeper cuts are coming next
year and probably the following year as well.
What’s more, though we have received some
earmarked grant monies for energy related
projects, the dollars we receive to care for
people are being squeezed and that is not going
to change anytime soon.
In the past, I have asked for your help to
develop new programs or
to realize some new
and exciting project. This year I am writing to
ask for your help to just keep doing what the
Foundation has been doing all along. That is
to add that little bit of extra light in the lives
of the people in our care.
The Venture Foundation is there to pick up
the costs for all kinds of things that we have
no other way to pay for. It helps underwrite
things like parties for people who have no
personal account or to fund special initiatives
for our day program.
The Foundation
supports training for our staff and, in some
circumstances, it’s helped us to bury some of
our Venture people. In so many instances it
is the Foundation that makes
it possible for us to do the
right thing when there is
no other way for us to be
there for people and
to afford them
the dignity and
respect that
any of us might
hope to know
if we found
ourselves in some circumstance. And, you know, when you’re
charged with caring for people, it’s those little gestures, that
modest support at the right time, that mean everything.
In the days ahead we face many challenges and much uncertainty.
I’m not sure what’s going to happen but what I do know is
that over the years we have done great things together. This year,
I understand that it’s a lot harder to help but the truth is that this year is when it really counts.
No, I don’t have any grand plans or bold visions for 2010. What
I am asking is that we do our best to keep alive all the good
things that we’ve done.
I am asking that we continue to keep
faith with a spirit of concern for one another in spite of the hard
road ahead of us and do what we can to stay true to the people
who need us the most in these uncertain times.
A little goes a long way in hard times, when it’s really needed,
and so please help us however you can.
