Come Explore with Us...

The Blue Sky Fund is on a mission to provide transformational experiences for urban youth through outdoor education.

     Blue Sky Fund exists to mentor and educate at-risk youth through after-school and weekend programs, as well as to provide "camperships" to young people to attend summer camp.   This upcoming summer we will send 100 kids to summer camp who would otherwise have not be able to afford such an experience.  Over the past year we have explored the great outdoors on four weekend fishing programs, two overnight camping trips, and weekly rock climbing sessions.  Blue Sky Fund also works hard to get usually sedentary kids up and moving during our weekly exercise program and our annual Church Hill Games extravaganza that exposes us to over 150 kids each year.  Our participants are primarily Richmond City Public School students living in under resourced neighborhoods and homes.  Our city's youth deserve access to all the educational opportunities possible, and we are passionate about providing experiential learning throughout the year as well as the rich memories and lessons of summer camp.   We would love the opportunity to help you get involved if you are interested.  Please contact us to find out more about Blue Sky Fund.

"Yet, at the very moment that the bond is breaking between the young and the natural world, a growing body of research links our mental, physical, and spiritual health directly to our association with natur--in positive ways. As one scientist puts it, we can now assume that just as children need good nutrition and adequate sleep, they may very well need contact with nature."

-Quotation from Richard Louv's book Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder

*for more "proof" that Blue Sky Fund's work is essential to meet our community's needs, please click on Research and Discussion to read more.

Upcoming event: Fishing Open House on September 13th.  Come join us and the kids for a day of fishing, eating and getting to know Blue Sky Fund on a private family farm about 30 min. from downtown.

Latest quotation from a BSF participant said while tubing on the Chesapeake Bay: "I am the Queen of the ocean!' -Tynesha age 11