RYLA 5810 Events & Scholarship Fund

RYLA, Rotary Youth Leadership Award, is a leadership camp for incoming high school seniors in Rotary District 5810. Through Camp RYLA, the “Leaders of Tomorrow” have a forum for teamwork, communication, and consensus building in an environment that challenges personal and team responsibilities. This week long leadership skills summer camp annually provides over 180 outstanding high school student leaders, opportunities to expand and hone their leadership skills through cabin activities, athletic events, educational workshops, and team building exercises. Over the past 26 years, the RYLA Alumni group (past RYLArians) has been vital to the success of the RYLA program.

The money raised in this campaign will be split between these two ALUMNI sponsered events:

1. The Mark Healy Leadership Award, the Dana Mackison Service Award and the Jim Duffy Dedication Award. 
-These scholarships are awarded to alumni that embody the spirit of RYLA, strive to put the campers first in all of their actions surrounding camp, and have shown continued dedication to the program over the years. The process for selecting the scholarship winners has traditionally been an open nomination period throughout the first several days of camp, with all alumni eligible to nominate a fellow alumnus, and then a selection committee of about 5 past scholarship winners go through the nominations on the last night of camp to select the winners.


2. Alumni events:
-RYLA 5810 host RYLA Day 0 before camp and Day 7 afte camp, to help the staff and campers transition. Day 7 highlights the activity of the campers to see how they have brought what they learned, back to their communitys.
-The Alumni also have an annual holiday party, and due to our continue growth in participation, are in need of a bigger venue.
-Alumni Summer program

We need to raise $3,000 of the $5,000, in tax-deductible donations by August 6th, the last night of Camp RYLA 2016.

Your donation is appreciated!