After a tornado hit a local school, we popped up a camp in Beggs, Oklahoma, a small community devastated by a storm that didn’t make national headlines.

At the end of every year we like to look back and reflect on how the past 12 months have unfolded, and 2025 has been quite the adventure for Project:Camp. 

Over the past year and a half, our leadership team and Board of Directors have been working on a strategic plan for Project:Camp.

We opened camp for kids impacted by flash floods in New Mexico today, returning for a second year in a row to the Village of Ruidoso which has been devastated by wildfires and rain that have burned neighborhoods and washed away homes in the mountain community.

Last month’s wildfire crisis in Los Angeles was a stress test for Project:Camp. The scale of the disaster was difficult to comprehend, and figuring out how to serve the hundreds of thousands of people impacted by the fires was an unprecedented challenge. 

The past three weeks have been a whirlwind for Project:Camp – and for tens of thousands of families and children impacted by the wildfires in Los Angeles. 

As we close out the year, we’re stopping to reflect and take a look at the impact we had in 2024.

It’s Thanksgiving, and in the spirit of gratitude we wanted to say how much we appreciate the Project:Camp family and everyone who has helped us provide care for children, relief for families, and resilience for communities this year.

We’re on the ground in Western North Carolina running camp for families impacted by Hurricane Helene, which carved a wide path of destruction through the heart of Appalachia. 

Despite our work of the past several years, we are still running into some frustrating systemic barriers when setting up camps to help give kids a space to find a semblance of normalcy while schools are closed and normal childcare networks are disrupted. 

Being able to reconnect and reforge ties of community is the backbone of resilience, and we’re grateful that we can help foster it with a camp in Greenfield, Iowa.