May Recap & Summer Camp updates

CLF is VERY busy getting ready for our 2025 Sumer Camp for All season, and May was filled with community meetings, visits to new potential camp field trip sites, and one VERY special college graduation (CONGRATS AGAIN to Valentino Carrasco, who we have known since his literal birth (!)

CLF’s Executive Director Francesca McCaffery is now on the Advisory Board of the Great Parks Coalition, a great organization with amazing plans to turn the Santa Monica Airport into an incredible community space and park, CLF visited the incredible Kuruvungna Village Springs (which are preserved and protected by the Gabrielino-Tongva Springs Foundation) right in the very heart of West Los Angeles, we attended the memorial of our beloved friend and advisor, Michael Johnson, at the end of the month (we will miss you so very greatly, Michael) and have been finishing up planning our Wilderness & Coastal Eco-Mariners Surf Camp components for the summer…

We are thrilled to be back at King Gillette Ranch in Calabasas for our Wilderness Camp component, and that Zuma Beach has been deemed safe to swim and surf in, after the tragic SoCal fires in January-so-CLF Surf Camps will happily continue! We plan to have 750 youth from historically underserved neighborhoods in Los Angeles attend, and we cannot WAIT.

CLF also has FIVE more openings for CITs at camp this summer (min. age requirement is 16)-please go right here if your teen may be interested in applying!

We are also over HALF WAY to our goal of $50,000 for our current online fundraiser-thanks to one VERY special Angel, and our Camp for All Fundraiser is still going on! Please consider giving this season, especially if you haven’t donated yet this year. It truly means the world to this program, and we so appreciate your incredible support. #weloveyou! Happy Summer! #letscamp