This spring, you have the power to bring CRS to life! 🌞
The Summer 2025 Season is just around the corner, and the excitement is building! Our campers—from dozens of countries around the world—are getting ready for a season of growth, leadership, creativity, and connection at Camp Rising Sun and in our virtual TELE program. But we can't do it without you.
Each unforgettable CRS or TELE experience—each new friendship, each life-changing workshop, each powerful moment of self-discovery—relies on the generosity of our community. We invite you to take an active role in shaping Summer 2025 by sponsoring essential pieces of the CRS and TELE experiences.
You can help fund things like:
🎭 Our magical Variety Show series where campers shine on stage
🏕️ Essential outdoor gear to fuel nature adventures and leadership exercises
🎨 Arts supplies that spark imagination and creativity
🧠 Transformative leadership workshops that challenge and inspire
By choosing one (or more!) of these sponsorship opportunities, you are directly helping to create the environment where young people will learn, grow, and lead with compassion. Your gift isn’t just a donation—it’s an investment in a vibrant, ethical future led by tomorrow’s change-makers. Together, we can bring Camp to life! Help us get ready for the best summer yet—sponsor a piece of the Camp magic today! 🌟
Scroll our Summer 2025 Gift Catalog below to make your gift:
CRS 2025 GIFT CATALOG
your gift in action:
Healing Through Performance: Variety Show
“Performing at the Variety Show was such a healing experience for me. I did it to challenge myself to let my fears out and be more open and less shy, and at the end of my performance, people started talking to me and saying I did a good job! I really didn't expect that and those little compliments from my fellow campers helped me to have a love of confidence in myself and about what I can give to the world. With this experience, I gained a lot of braveness and security about myself and my talents. Now that I’m back from Camp, the Variety Show gave me the ability to express myself more freely and without fear of what others are going to think. I know that in the future, more people like me will have the same or an even more enriched experience that lets them be free and happy.”
—Jeheser, CRS ‘24, Dominican Republic
Virtual Dream come true: TELE Experience
“I have always been interested in internationality so this course was like a dream come true. We discussed a lot of topics that I was curious to learn more about like sustainability and environmentalism, and how these concepts are practiced in our home countries. I gained a lot of new perspectives and information, and how I can share this in my own community. We also learned practical skills like how to influence in your society and how to run a campaign. But maybe the most valuable memory from TELE is that even if this was just on Zoom, it felt after a few meetings as if we had met face to face.”
—Lempi, TELE ‘24, Finland
Depth and Community: Nature Connection
“My favorite part of Camp was how close we were to nature for four weeks. We didn’t have our phones and we were kind of disconnected from society. At first I was a bit scared of this because I didn’t know what it would be like. But looking back, I think it was so much better. Because we were ‘disconnected from society', we really had to rely on each other and we talked a lot. We mostly talked about deep things, and this is one of my favorite memories.”
—Levi, CRS ‘24, Hungary (top right)