Right now any gift you make to The Fresh Air Fund will be matched dollar for dollar by a group of generous donors! If you can give $25 that means $50 for inner-city children. $50 becomes $100!
But you must make your donation by June 30th to take advantage of this wonderful opportunity!
Thanks to host families who open up their homes for one or two weeks each summer, children growing up in New York City’s toughest neighborhoods
have experienced the joys of Fresh Air vacations.
More than 65% of all children are reinvited to stay with their host family, year after year.
Fresh Air children are boys and girls, six to 12 years old, who reside in low-income communities in New York City and are eager to
experience the simple pleasures of life outside the city.
As one child says, "I can’t wait to get on the bus every summer so I can see my family and go swimming and hiking!"
Friendly Town Locations
The Fresh Air Fund NEEDS hosts for this
Summer
in these states
You can give a child the experience of a
lifetime with your gift to The Fresh Air Fund!
Every year, The Fresh Air Fund gives thousands of inner-city children
the priceless gift of fun – and opens the door to a lifetime of
opportunities.
Whether it’s a two-week trip to the country to visit a volunteer host
family, or a fun-filled and educational stay at one of our camps, our
programs make for unforgettable memories – and open a world of new
friendships and fresh possibilities.
We are a not-for-profit agency and depend on tax-deductible donations
from people like you to keep our vital programs flourishing.
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THE FRESH AIR FUND, an independent, not-for-profit agency, has provided
free summer vacations to more than 1.7 million New York City children
from low-income communities since 1877. Nearly 10,000 New York City
children enjoy free Fresh Air Fund programs annually. In 2008, close to
5,000 children visited volunteer host families in suburbs and small
town communities across 13 states from Virginia to Maine and Canada.
3,000 children also attended five Fresh Air camps on a 2,300-acre site
in Fishkill, New York. The Fund’s year-round camping program serves an
additional 2,000 young people each year.
Fresh Air Fund History
In
1877, the Reverend Willard Parsons, minister of a small rural parish in
Sherman, Pennsylvania, asked members of his congregation to provide
country vacations as volunteer host families for children from New York
City tenements. This was the beginning of The Fresh Air Fund tradition.
By 1884, Reverend Parsons was writing about The Fund for New York’s
Herald Tribune, and the number of children served grew. In 2008, close
to 10,000 New York City children experienced the joys of summertime in
Friendly Towns and at five Fund camps in upstate New York.
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