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...because SUP is the most expensive PBHA-run program—costing an estimated $600,000—funding the camps is a yearly struggle. This year, SUP directors are trying to move away from relying on grants, and are instead focusing on raising money by themselves with fundraisers like yesterday’s auction...
Mostly located in the communities of Dorchester, Chinatown, Roxbury, and the South End, the SUP camps draw on college students to fill senior counselor positions while local high school students are hired as junior counselors. Most of the senior counselors, who receive two weeks of teaching training, have already been chosen while SUP directors will continue to hire junior counselors until early...
While the curriculum can be tweaked until the last moment, raising enough money to fund SUP must be done by June...
...Overall, SUP costs just under $600,000, including the fees involved in running the individual camps and the overhead costs...
...Running a ‘bare bones’ SUP camp requires at least a $40,000 budget. My co-director and I have to raise all of that (with some help from PBHA) ourselves by June,” Diane M. A. Nguyen ’05, one of the directors of the Chinatown Adventure camp, writes in an e-mail...