And they will be the last.

The amount of support that has been provided to to this Foundation has been overwhelming. Honoring my brother for 10 years with this has allowed me to cherish his memory in a tangible and fulfilling way. There is no limit to the thanks I have for our donors.

Here’s hoping we get an amazing and worthy group of applicants!

I’m definitely late this year, but not too late!
Camp Cedar Glen is coming up late June and the school year is not yet over. So, kids going to camp can still apply for camperships and young adults heading on to higher education can get their college scholarship applications submitted.

Head on over to those pages and we look forward to your applications!

The application forms for camperships and college scholarships have been taken down. We will be reviewing all applicants over the coming weeks and notifying everyone who has applied! If you don’t hear from us soon, please reach out via the contact page.

Camperships for 2024 Camp Cedar Glen and College Scholarships for graduating seniors pursuing further education are now open! We’re hoping to fund a lot more camperships this year than in these last few post-pandemic years. So please share our foundation with anyone you know who is looking for support and interested in positive social change!

We lost the website for about a week, but were able to recover it as well as the campership and college scholarship submissions! We’re reaching out to all of those students in the next few days, so please stand by for the announcement and all of the new jokes to be added.

Also, it appears that this news page is no longer presenting properly… so that’s something we need to work on.

Hi Everyone! The years have been busy, but the foundation is back open for giving! Please reach out to anyone you know who would be a good candidate for either a campership or college scholarship. Anything you can give to help propel this foundation towards greater giving is also so very gratefully accepted. Please see our giving page for all the ways to donate.

I’ve waited to update anything here, once all this mess started happening, because there were plenty of communications coming from every possible source. I also didn’t have any solid answers to provide. The conference has consistently been saying that they will do what they can to keep camp open this summer and surely colleges will continue, one way or another, in the 2020-2021 scholastic year. So, the foundation is still operating and ready to provide college scholarships, but we are not doing campership funding this year. That is because it is still unclear whether or not camps will be held in person. We are going to start raising awareness of the funds among the conference and we hope to receive lots of great applicants this time around. We encourage everyone to share the information about this foundation and its awards, as some assistance to families may be more necessary than ever. If you are able and would like to give to our foundation, please see our options on our donate page.

With a new year come new camps. Registration opened on the first and we are excited for another year of scholarships. They usually come in closer to camp start dates (procrastination is real), but once they do, all of us on the Spencer Topham Foundation committee love reading the expressions of faith and the jokes. Camp registration has changed to a new system this year. The link to that is on our camp scholarship page. It’s bit wonky. Apparently if you had an account on the old system, it has been ported over and when attempting to sign in, you have to hit the “what’s my password” button. I hope this doesn’t prove to be too frustrating for anyone. The informational page on camps is also quite a bit outdated and odd looking. We have availed ourselves to the camp administrators to help on that end. Don’t let any of this deter you. All of the real energy is in the camp experience. If you need any help, reach out to us through our contact page and we will advocate for you.

Registration for 2019 summer camps at Camp Cedar Glen opened up on the first of the year and with that, the new round of Spencer Topham funds are open. Applications for 2019 support are welcome beginning now until the end of June. Make sure to remind your friends and family of the foundation. We look forward to seeing all the great world perspectives and cheesy jokes that will come!

In 2018, we gave out a little over $3,000 to students going to Camp Cedar Glen and one very deserving student heading off to college. Better than just the number, we were able to provide assistance to every single student that submitted a request. Their applications were heartwarming and touching. Supporting kids who are able to think socially was a great gift. More students and youth leaders now know about the scholarship, so we are expecting more applications for the 2019 round of funding. Today is Giving Tuesday, so if you are able to provide support to these students, please do. We will hold another fundraiser/get together in early 2019, so stay in touch and sign up for the email list on the contacts page.