Camp Kesem at UW-Madison is an entirely volunteer, student-run summer camp and year round support system for children who are affected by a parent’s cancer. Their goal is to support these children through and beyond their parent's cancer. There are currently no other camps combined with year-round support services offered in Madison for this population to ease the fear, anger, guilt, and sadness that they experience daily. Campers have the unique opportunity to have a week of carefree summer fun, build friendships, and gain strength from peers facing similar challenges.

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Kesem makes the following commitments:

• To continually expand the communities, they support and work with - their camper families, volunteers, staff, alumni, and supporters - with attention to engaging underrepresented communities.

• To strive for equity in delivering a transformative, healing, and empowering experience to those communities that recognizes and embraces our differences in race, religion, ability, nationality, sexual orientation, gender expression and identity, family structure, cancer stage or type, or socioeconomic status.

• To work to ensure that every member of the Kesem community feels safe, loved, and respected.

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Camp Kesem UW-Madison was the 100 Men of Dane County 2nd quarter grant winner for 2019. With their gift of $88,739, Camp Kesem at UW-Madison funded three fun-filled weeks of camp this summer, including camp programming, in which they created engaging activities for campers of all ages. We are honored to have been able to support this incredible cause and look forward to following along with the progress of Camp Kesem at UW-Madison!