Enjoy photos from our annual Women’s Brunch, inaugurally named in honor of Helene Mattera. Thank you to everyone who joined us!
Thank you to everyone who joined us for a super sweet, maple syrup-filled day at Camp Rising Sun this year! Click for photos from this year’s annual Maple Syrup Day.
We’re excited to congratulate three members of our alumni community who were named as John Litsios Scholars and received a special off-cycle GEJ Scholarship award. Click to meet the scholars!
Please join us in welcoming Victoria Enriquez into the role of Director of Advancement at LAJF. Click to read the full announcement from our Executive Director, Barry Fulton, and a personal letter from Victoria!
CRS alum and LAJF Board Member, Evan Schwartz, shares why Camp Rising Sun has remained such a meaningful part of his life, and why he continues to give back, year after year.
Click to read his personal year-end note and gift match announcement! Please consider making a gift to LAJF and Camp Rising Sun before 2025 ends. Go to lajf.org/donate to give now.
During Virtual CRS, campers from around the world engage with each other in conversations about world issues, teach each other, and come together to make projects happen!
A group of campers created an in-depth video essay that analyzes the film "Legally Blonde" through a feminist lens. Get ready for your perspective on this movie to completely change!
We are excited to announce the publication of our Annual Report for the 2019-2020 fiscal year. Please click here to read the report.
For LAJF, the 2019-2020 fiscal year was full of surprises, innovations, and new opportunities in the face of the COVID-19 global pandemic and its impact. With no in-person Camp Rising Sun program over the summer and international travel being suspended throughout most of the world, the LAJF staff were hard at work reorganizing, restrategizing, and reimagining how to fulfill our mission.
During Virtual CRS, campers from around the world engage with each other in conversations about world issues, teach each other, and come together to make projects happen! We will be sharing a few of the projects made during the second session of Virtual CRS 2021 for you all to watch and enjoy! This week brings a collection of stories from around the world!
During Virtual CRS, campers from around the world engage with each other in conversations about world issues, teach each other, and come together to make projects happen! We will be sharing a few of the projects made during the second session of Virtual CRS 2021 for you all to watch and enjoy! This week brings you a thrilling short film.
During Virtual CRS, campers from around the world engage with each other in conversations about world issues, teach each other, and come together to make projects happen! We will be sharing a few of the projects made during the second session of Virtual CRS 2021 for you all to watch and enjoy! This week brings you the Memento Project. Watch this video to hear campers ask each other about:
What drew them to CRS
What they got out of the program
Whether it met their expectations
Their most cherished memories
and more!
Day 7:
So, today we began with an activity that was actually pretty fun. By the way, yes, I am aware that today is Independence Day and a holiday in the US, where this camp takes place, but since we don’t really celebrate, the holiday, at least in the context of this blog, is kind of irrelevant. Now that I’ve addressed that, I should get back to describing Day 7 of camp. For this activity, we were given a statement and a spectrum that stretched from yes to no. We then placed our names on the spectrum depending on how much we agreed with the statement. This was really helpful because you could see what the range was like instead of just getting yes or no answers. I really appreciated that the activity let us see the world in shades of gray, instead of just black and white.
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