The Jack and Buena Foundation

So grateful!

2024 Make Dreams Real Grantees — Stanislaus Community Foundation Stanislaus Community Foundation (SCF) and Boyett Petroleum are pleased to announce the 2024 Make Dreams Real Grantees: Bel Passi Baseball, Inc. Beyer Robotics Boys & Girls Club of Stanislaus County Camp Taylor Carnegie Arts Center Central West Ballet City Ministry Network City of Patterson

Thank you Sonora Area Foundation!!

** Gratitude Wednesday **

The Jack and Buena Foundation and Camp Jack Hazard want to express a deeply felt sense of gratitude for the Sonora Area Foundation. We received a $10,000.00 grant award to help any and all Tuolumne County families to get their children to camp! We are so grateful to receive this generous support of Camp Jack Hazard and what it does for the youth of Tuolumne County! Now we need to find us some foothill kids!!!

Progress!!

Our Mission — The Jack and Buena Foundation “Imagine a circle of compassion withnobody standing outside that circle.”- Fr. Greg Boyle Our MissionTo empower individuals through personal and character growth in an inclusive and unique wilderness setting, fostering a deep connection with nature, community, and self. Our VisionBuild a future...

Thank you Simile Construction for your amazing gift!!!

On behalf of the Board of Directors and the The Jack and Buena Foundation, I would like extend our immense gratitude to Simile Construction for becoming our first business sponsor of the Jack and Buena Foundation/ Camp Jack Hazard Founders Circle Initiative. This initiative is a long-term relationship in financially supporting the Camp Jack Hazard program. Through the generosity of Simile Construction Camp Jack Hazard will be able to continue offering Camperships, make much needed improvements to the site, and generally help to make sure Camp Jack Hazard continues to be one of the best camps in the world! This is a great way to start our 100th year serving the Central Valley and beyond!! Thank you!

If your business would like to support Camp Jack Hazard, please feel free to reach out us to discuss what you can do to help support this amazing program.

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Well, it’s official! The Camp Jack Hazard is back up and running with its administration team!! Everyone is fast at work prepping for this summer. Welcome Kayla Hoyopatubbi, our new Camp Registrar!! Lupe De La Rosa, our new Bookkeeper!! And Rob, CJH Site Director!! We are busy catching up and getting ready for this amazing, session packed summer! (Yes, it took 2.5 people to replace Amanda Hoyopatubbi!!!

** UPDATE **
As you may have noticed, we have been relatively quiet here. This lull in our usual updates is due to the great weight of sadness we have been feeling. Our very great friend Amanda Hoyopatubbi, Camp Registrar and amazing Bookkeeper has moved on professionally to bigger, better ambitions. I have been living in denial for the last two weeks that she was coming back to the office... but alas that is not the case. She has dedicated the last 7 years to help make Camp Jack Hazard and the Jack and Buena Foundation happen for all of us. She has been my greatest support and a trusted friend. I am very happy and proud of all of her growth personally and professionally in her time with us. This organization will struggle to find someone who can fill this position as well as Amanda has done. She has ensured that every kid that wants to be at camp, has made it to camp. She has squelched and calmed every nervous parent and made the signing up/ paperwork process as easy as possible. She will be missed.

So please parents, be patient with me and Rob Waterman (Site Director) as we stumble through trying to do this daunting task. We will be posting a job posting soon for a permanent replacement. We will be searching for a Camp Registrar and Bookkeeper.

Thank you Amanda for all of your service and dedication and making me look presentable to the public.

Jason L. Poisson

Another amazing year for the Jack and Buena Foundation!!!

** Matching Gift Campaign Update **

We are very excited to announce that Camp Jack Hazard has met its goal of raising $40,000 for its Matching Gift Campaign!!! That means that the Mary Stuart Rogers Foundation is going to match every one of those dollars!!! These funds are going to land on kids going to camp and making critical site improvements in 2023!!

As the Executive Director of this program, I want to personally thank all of our donors who gave what they could to make this happen. It is because of the generosity all of you that Camp Jack Hazard continues on every year! These funds, like Camp Jack Hazard, will make a difference in a child's life forever!

Hey Alumni!!! Time to come visit your home away from home!

Hey Alumni Members!!! Alumni Weekend is ready for you to sign up and enjoy a wonderful weekend catching up with old friends, making some new ones, and seeing the ol' camp stomping grounds! Camille Bourcier has taken the leadership role to model signing up first! Don't miss out on an amazing weekend. It's also a time to learn about all the great successes of the Jack and Buena Foundation for the year! This year's Alumni Weekend will be August 4th through the 6th!!!

https://www.campjackhazard.org/register

Continuing with our mission of "building the leaders of tomorrow"!!!

Camp Jack Hazard - Work at CJH All of our staff positions are currently open for 2016! We are very excited about increased enrollment and new programs, so we will need a lot of dedicated, passionate, honest, caring, respectful and responsible people to help fill all of the Program Staff and Counseling positions. This is the part

Limited Edition Official Hazardland CJH Blanket — The Jack and Buena Foundation When you want to stay cozy while dreaming of rocking out next summer, our 50" x 60" "Hazardland" woven blanket is sure to do the trick. Featuring a reproduction of Mark Pestana's "Hazardland" Mural from the Arts and Crafts building, it includes the lan

Support Camp Jack Hazard — The Jack and Buena Foundation Make a DifferenceCamp Jack Hazard relies on the generous support of people like you to fulfill our commitment to providing life-changing outdoor adventures. With your donation, you provide crucial support that helps us keep the Camp Jack Hazard traditions alive. The Jack and Buena Foundation greatly...

What a year so far...

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It's going to be a full summer 2023!

Thanks to all of the support of our alumni!! We have begun the Matching Gift Campaign for 2022/23 to match $40,000. This is where those funds land in the Jack and Buena Foundation!!!

Wow!

One of the bests gifts we can give to youth is the gift of camp. Did you know that each year, we spend nearly $26k - $45k in campership funds to make sure any kid that wants to go to camp, does! That’s pretty amazing! The best part for us at the JBF is the amazing cards, notes, and drawings we get from the moms and dads and campers that received that support. Below is a picture of just one of our groups of such correspondence. Also below is the transcript of one recent thank-you note we received. It really nails the entire spirit of Camp Jack Hazard:

"Dear Camp Jack Hazard,

Every year I’ve gone to Camp I’ve written a letter. Most of the letters have said mostly the same thing-
how much I love Camp, how much I can’t wait to go back etc, but I mean it with all my heart.

Camp is a truly wonderful place. During closing campfire of session 4, a little boy said “Everyone loves you” there, and I think that’s one of the most accurate things I’ve heard. It’s a very accepting and inclusive place. It’s somewhere I can ALWAYS be myself without being judged.

I’d like to thank Don for helping me decide what to do with my rag. Also Zoey, for talking through my feelings with me. And last but not least Melanie for dealing with my homesickness and crazy cabin.

Camp is a special place, and you guys make it that much better.
2022 was such a hectic year, and I know I’m forgetting something, but thank you for all the wonderful experiences. I can’t wait to be back as a camper then as an LIT, then (hopefully) as a counselor. I can’t wait to make new friends and wake up to bells again.

See you next year!

P.s Thank you for giving me a scholarship this year!

P.P.s I apologize for how late this letter is."

So remember that when you donate to help send a child to camp, this is the change you are giving to that child’s life!!!

Hello Camp Jack Hazard Staff and Alumni!!! So far we ONLY have 24 of you signed up for the amazing ALUMNI WEEKEND! WE CAN DO BETTER!!! Please register ASAP (I know I have seen a lot of you saying you are going to be there). I need to have a solid count so that I can more effectively order food and plan our RECEPTION wares! Come learn about all the great things we have been up to over this last year and possibly about where we are going 2023!! Plus, it's a ton of fun!
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Amazing news for CJH!!!

Hope to see some of ya'll Alumni up at CJH!!!