We are so grateful for the generous offer to help in prepping for our 99th summer! At the request of alum, we polled the association in the Facebook group to pick a date for a service weekend where alumnae could offer their time and talents to getting camp ready this summer. The votes were […]
When I first learned of Camp Carysbrook and began exploring the camp website, I knew it was a place I needed to be. I was immediately taken with the beauty of the camp property, and as I read more, the camp’s mission, philosophy, and history, with its roots in expanding opportunities for girls and young […]
Hooray! We did it! Our hard work collaborating with the Virginia Department of Health and the Governor’s office has paid off and the Governor announced official Guidelines for Virginia Overnight Summer Camps in the Third Amended Executive Order #72 today with operations permitted as of May 1, 2021! Bring on summer 2021! As […]
It’s never too early to start talking about camp with your campers! Our campers historically come from a variety of backgrounds and life experiences. It is part of what makes Camp Carysbrook such a special experience. As a result of the pandemic and the events in our country and abroad, we recognize that […]
2021 Reopen Letter from Virginia Deputy Secretary of Trade & Commerce, Cassidy Rasnick Welcome news this following months of planning and communication from Colleen Hagan Egl, head of the Reopen Committee for the Virginia Coalition of Overnight Summer Camps! Colleen and the Committee continue to meet with the Deputy Secretary of Trade & Commerce and […]
Please join us for the second in a new series of Cultural Conversations, a Camp Carysbrook Alumnae Association member exclusive! Be a part of developing awareness and dialogue regarding race with a focus on campers of color to help make Camp Carysbrook a more diverse and inclusive community, one of our organizational goals. You […]
CCAA Holiday Fundraiser 2020 The Camp Carysbrook Alumnae Association’s annual winter fundraiser is here! The perfect cure for those of you who are camp sick as we head into the long, cold winter months while supporting the CCAA Scholarship Fund. All of the proceeds will support the Scholarship Fund, which helps girls experience Carysbrook, […]
Please join us for the first in a new series of Cultural Conversations, a Camp Carysbrook Alumnae Association member exclusive! In this session hosted and facilitated by CCAA members Joyi Levata Better-Rice and Adrienne Anderson Stuckey, we will have a candid, ask-anything conversation about What’s Different for Black Women in the world today. The […]
We are beyond grateful for the support and connection of Carysbrook families in this dizzying environment of constant pivoting this year. The roller coaster analogy has long since become moot. The fatigue of planning is palpable, and still we must move forward, for ourselves and for our children who so desperately need to […]
There is no easy way to say this. We fought a good fight. But leadership means knowing when it is time to recognize where we are and how to re-calibrate. With no path forward and a deficit of time, Camp Carysbrook has made the difficult decision to cancel our remaining 2020 session. In […]
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