FALL 2015 DAYCROFT ONLINE LEARNING COMMUNITY DOLC Engaging online homeschooling program for grades K-8. ASHER STUDENT DISCOVERYBOUND FOUNDATION Regional and national Comfortable, safe, homelike year-round recreational, living for college and leadership and service university students. activities for youth, adults, families and friends. ALBERT BAKER FUND LINK SCHOOL Financial aid Alternative high for college and school for students graduate students. wanting or needing Support for job an experiential seekers through its education. Career Alliance. SUMMER CAMPS 6 summer camps in Canada TMC YOUTH and the United States Support for youth through • Adventure Unlimited time4thinkers.com, CSO’s, Colorado Internships, and Sunday • Camp Bow-Isle School. British Columbia • Cedars Camps – Missouri THE PRINCIPIA • Crystal Lake Camps Principia School, a day and boarding Pennsylvania school for Pre-K through Grade 12. • Camps Leelanau- Principia College, a 4-year liberal Kohahna – Michigan arts college. • Camps Newfound- Owatonna – Maine Organizations working together to serve CS Youth The Daycroft School The Many Dimensions of Daycroft’s Activities Foundation, Inc. As the front page of this newsletter indicates, Daycroft is proud to be part 1177 High Ridge Road of a family of organizations serving Christian Science youth. Each organization Stamford, CT 06905 has its own important role, and each organization appreciates and supports the Phone: 203-321-2118 others. Daycroft’s role is multi-faceted. We provide funding for many youth Fax: 203-321-2119 programs, including all six summer camps and www.daycroftschool.org DiscoveryBound’s National Leadership Council. The mission of the Daycroft Email: [email protected] For the past ten years, we have offered an online School Foundation is to Daycroft Online Executive Director: Barbara Brown educational program - the bring the universal truths Office Manager: Jean Hamilton Learning Community (DOLC) - for Christian Science families who homeschool This program of Christian Science to the The Daycroft Board of Trustees has served the individual needs of over 150 education of young people. Mary Flynn ................Westport, CT students, living wherever there is a good internet Trude Harper ................Godfrey, IL connection! Additionally, Daycroft looks for new initiatives that need start-up David Johnson .....Laguna Hills, CA support and encouragement. This past year we have been actively involved in E3: Al McCready ...Old Greenwich, CT Elevating Education Everywhere, a new organization that works with CS-based Erik Olsen ..................... Wilton, CT schools in developing countries (see e3schools.org), and we have provided financial Joy Rendahl ............Greenwich, CT support to Stronghold School Systems. Libby Steckler ..Old Greenwich, CT Daycroft has always been about three things: young people, education, and Christian Science. Our programs and grants may change as needs become apparent Trustees Emeriti and fresh opportunities arise, yet our commitment to Christian Science youth and to Janet V. Crisler ........... Don Kurtz education based on moral and spiritual values remains the bedrock of our work. DAYCROFT CS-Based Schools Around the World These schools base their work on the principles of Christian Science though their SUPPORTED THESE doors are open to children of all faiths. ORGANIZATIONS IN 2015 Berkeley Hall School Huntingtower School Los Angeles, California Melbourne, Australia • Adventure Unlimited Branch School Japhet School • Camp Bow Isle Houston, Texas Detroit area, Michigan • Branch School Clairbourn School Les Ecoles du Coeur • Cedars Camps San Gabriel, California Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo • Crystal Lake Camps Claremont Fan Court School Ngochoni Petals of Africa School • DiscoveryBound Esher, Surrey, England Ngochoni, Migori County, Kenya • E3: Elevating Education Everywhere Dream Education Centre Stronghold School Systems • Camps Leelanau/Kohahna Waithaka, Nairobi, Kenya Ventura, California • Link School Groupe Scolaire La Tendresse Sunrise of Africa School • Camps Newfound/Owatonna Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo Near Nairobi, Kenya • Stronghold School Systems "I found that coming to camp “From when my son joined the school up has brought out what has to now he has grown spiritually and his been hiding inside me for 14 performance is very, very encouraging in years. I am more responsible class. He always tells me that he is going and enjoy life much more than to make sure that one day we leave the I ever used to. I learned that I can do anything with God, shanty we live in. He keeps on telling that all those limits I placed me that God is good always because on myself mean absolutely he makes him top his class without nothing. This is an awesome considering where he comes from.” camp and I love it here." – Kenyon parent.