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The International Association of Burn Camps (IABC) is proud to share this grant opportunity with all burn camps located in the States. The grant is provided by the Project Paradigm Foundation.
Your organization is eligible for grant funding if it satisfies the following two requirements:
1. It is a nonprofit organization designated as a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) public charity by the IRS; and
2. It provides support to children who have suffered fire-related injuries.
Types of Support:
Applicants may request any of the following types of support:
1. Capacity Building Support: funds for internal development or organizational expansion. 2. General Support: funds that allow the organization to continue to carry out its mission. 3. Program Support: funds for new or existing programs.
Project Paradigm 2012 Grant Application (fillable PDF Version)
Application Deadline
This Grant Application must be completed and returned by mail or email by June 15, 2012.
Application may be emailed to grants@projectparadigm.net or mailed to:
Project Paradigm
c/o Jeffrey L. Richardson
11377 West Olympic Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90064
In accordance with the IABC by-laws we will be collecting petitions from all camps that have paid their dues, do not currently have a member of their camp serving on the board and our a voting member for their camp program. Please consider filling out a petition and joining this great team.
Due dates as follows:
Petitions: March 7, 2012
Voting ballot: March 9, 2012
Voting closed: March 21, 2012.
All correspondence should be directed to iaburncamps@gmail.com Please check your email and respond promptly. The new board members will be introduced at the ABA in April 2012!
We have 2 board members up for reelection; Trudy Boulter and Dana Kuhn and one open position as Kathy Haage has served her full term, she has served as the chair of the board this past year and made a significant contribution to this group.
Please do not hesitate to contact any of the current board members at iaburncamps@gmail.org if you have questions or concerns.
Best Kathy Haage, Nan Edens, Dana Kuhn, Trudy Boulter, Ron Fife, and Dana Dillard
To all IABC Burn Camp members and non-members, please visit us at the upcoming ABA Burn Camp Special Interest Group.
Monday, April 23, 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM
(Room location will be noted in Annual Meeting Program Book.)
Discussion point – Provide a forum on how to foster a partnership with your local burn center to optimize outreach and camper recruitment.
*All registered meeting participants are encouraged to attend Special Intrest Group (SIG) meetings which provide opportunities to exchange ideas and network with peers.
As my time with the IABC comes to an end I wanted to share with you my personal feelings about this ever growing organization. I have been serving on the board for the last ten years and have learned so much about making camps a better place for our young burn survivors. I ask each of you to look back over the last ten years and think about the changes we have seen within the burn camp community. Together we have accomplished many improvements internationally.
We have strengthen our workshops to help provide new education and goals for your camps. We have built our teamwork with each other as well as the teamwork within our own camps. We have built our knowledge of camps, parents, and management of our programs. We have gained a better understanding of homesickness, discipline at camp, and improved our outcomes with our campers. We have built friendships that will last a lifetime. We have truly made our burn camps the best place for survivors to gain acceptance for who they truly are as survivors, not victims. WE have strengthen our membership to over 30 camps from Peru to Canada, and California to Europe.
We are ready for the future together! We are ready to develop more web training for our camps. We are ready to welcome more camps. We are ready to present our guidelines on how to have the best burn camp programs. We are ready to promote more psychosocial programming within our camps without it feeling like therapy camp!
We are ready for the future!
Embrace it and welcome change because it makes our camps better every day.
Thanks for the memories, thanks for the learning, thanks for making our camps better!
Yours Sincerely,
Brad Wiggins RN BSN
IABC Chairperson
