New for Summer 2011: Fairview Elementary will be the location for the community center summer program.

Camp Fire Community Center programs provide free, safe and nurturing after school environments to youth in lower income neighborhoods. Each program is located in "Renaissance Zones" where more than half of all residents have low to moderate incomes. The program is similar to our licensed school age child care, with an added emphasis on homework assistance and activities that build self esteem. Community centers enable parents to work by providing quality after school care for their children.

Camp Fire operates three Community Center programs in Anchorage, serving approximately 100 children each day.

Fairview Community Center Program
For more than twenty years, staff at Camp Fire's Fairview Community Center Program have greeted the children every school day at Fairview Elementary School to walk them to the Camp Fire program housed a few blocks away at the Fairview Community Recreation center. Often times you can hear the children singing as they are walking through the neighborhood, come rain, shine or snow. The program provides opportunities for homework assistance, computer time, large group games, board games, science and craft activities. Staff integrates theme units that focus on health and safety for the children into the daily program. Children's Lunchbox partners with Camp Fire to provide a warm, nutritious dinner for the children and families in Fairview.


West Fairview Community Center Program
In October of 2006 Camp Fire formed a unique partnership with Central Lutheran Church and the Municipality of Anchorage to provide a free after-school program for children in the west Fairview neighborhood. The arrangement includes Central Lutheran donating space for the program; Camp Fire providing programming and staff; and an appropriation from the Municipality of Anchorage providing ongoing funding.

Tyson Elementary Morning Center Program
With the support of the Anchorage Community Land Trust, Camp Fire has opened a morning Center Program at Tyson Elementary in Mountain View to provide a safe, consistent and engaging before school environment for students of the school. For more information on the program, contact the Camp Fire office at 279-3551.

Loussac Manor Community Center Program
Camp Fire's program at Loussac Manor has recently closed as Alaska Housing and Finance Corporation prepares to close the housing community and rebuild it. The Alaska Council looks forward to being a part of the newly built facility and is working with individual families to continue providing after-school and summer services to Loussac youth during the transition.

"Affordable and accessible child care is one of the best programs we can make available for Anchorage families." Mayor Mark Begich at the center's opening

Community Center Supporters
Please join us in thanking the following organizations who have joined Camp Fire in their commitment to youth by providing financial support to community center programs:
$100,000+
These programs are supported by an appropriation from the Municipality of Anchorage.
$50,000 - $99,999
Anchorage Community Land Trust
$25,000 - $49,999
ML&P
$10,000 - $24,999
ConocoPhillips Alaska Inc.
Wells Fargo
$5,000 - $9,999
Northrim Bank
$1,000 - $4,999
Alaska USA Federal Credit Union
CIRI
Denali Alaskan Federal Credit Union
McKinley Capital Management
The Fred Meyer Foundation
Totem Ocean Trailer Express, Inc
Udelhoven Oilfield System Services, Inc.


And a very warm thank you to the many individuals who give of their time and resources to keep these programs operating!