Interested in becoming a Psalm68Five partner camp?
Here are some things you should know first.
Our Defenition of fatherlessness
Any child whose father has passed away, is incarcerated, has abandoned the family, or rarely connects with the family. Children in foster care are also eligible to receive this scholarship. Single moms who have children who qualify for the Psalm68Five Scholarship are also invited to attend family camps with their children through the Psalm68Five Scholarship, where family camps are offered.
While our heart goes out to children of divorced parents, this scholarship is not designated for them unless they have extremely limited contact with their father. To protect the intent and integrity of this scholarship, we ask that you do not provide this scholarship for children who have an active father or stepfather presence in their lives, even if divorce has occurred.
Other Funding Options:
Angel Tree Camping has significantly more funding available and are willing to fund children whose parents are incarcerated but does not necessarily fund other forms of fatherlessness. As such, seeking funding for such children from Angel Tree would help us all to reach more at-risk kids together. If a significant number of the fatherless campers at your camp have an incarcerated parent, it may be better fit for you to receive funding from Angel Tree Camping. We would be happy to put you in contact with a representative from Angel Tree Camping if this is the case. We are available to help fund other forms of fatherlessness.
Our Heart for Camps called to serve the fatherless:
We seek long-term relationships and full transparency with the Camp partners, to maintain our own integrity with those individuals, foundations and churches who provide donations for the Psalm68five Scholarships. We want to get to know you and your camp on a heart-to-heart basis so that we can be a backstop and help for Christian camps who would need funding to support their calling to serve the fatherless; and to celebrate and encourage those camps that are currently enjoying years of plenty with respect to their funding to serve fatherless campers. Similar to what Jesus shares in John 4:35, we believe the harvest fields for fatherless campers is ripe and ready, so we ask that scholarship funding not be requested from camps who currently have sufficient funds to serve fatherless kids this summer (such that our designated funds might be rolled over to next year). We know your financial needs may change next summer and beyond. We have reached a point where requests for scholarship funding exceeds our funding availability. The following questionnaire will help us to allocate funding as best we can to meet the current needs of Christian camps we seek to support, with an emphasis of maintaining relationships with camps we have supported in the past.
The Min/Max/Match Model:
Min: Partner camps send have until March 31st each year to submit their pre-summer application for funding. Psalm68Five awards funding based on expected need and available
funds. Half of the allocated funding is sent out to each camp at the start of the summer. This is the minimum amount or "guaranteed" funding for the year.
Max: The remaining half of the funding is set aside until after the post-summer report has been received. This is the maximum funding that will be sent for the year. The goal of these funds is to create a "safety net" that allows the partner camp to confidently provide fatherless camper scholarships without fear of the total funding not being sufficient to cover costs.
Match: During the summer, partner camps share with their camp donors, supporters, and prayer team about the fatherless epidemic and the scholarships available to fatherless campers. Camp partners communicate a "summer match challenge" where they ask their donors to consider donating specifically towards fatherless scholarships in an attempt to match the "minimum" funding that has already been sent in. Any funds that come in stay with the partner camp to help cover the scholarships given to fatherless campers this year. Psalm68Five has email and newsletter templates, as well as social media graphics available for partner camps to use for this communication if they choose.
Our Hope: If the partner camp is able to raise all or part of the match challenge, and the funding raised is sufficient to cover the scholarships that have been given out to fatherless campers, then Psalm68Five would use the second half of funding that was not sent to partner with a new camp the following summer. This makes all partner camp a catalyst to help increase the number of overall scholarships to
fatherless campers, thereby raising awareness for the cause of the fatherless.
Safety Net: If the matching funds combined with the first half "minimum" funding are not sufficient to cover the scholarships given to fatherless campers this summer, Psalm68Five will endeavor to provide that second-half funding if the camp’s additional scholarship funds are exhausted, and if requested.
Post-Summer Report: Partner Camps must submit a post-summer report by September 1st in order to to be eligible to receive the second half of funding. The report must contain information about each camper that received a Psalm68Five scholarship. To see exactly what is expected, please download a sample report using the button below.