ENVISIONING THE FUTURE
The Brewster Flats Foundation is rooted in timeless and joyful camping traditions and exists to provide world-class recreational and educational experiences in a safe and inclusive community on the shores of Cape Cod Bay.
There is untold and limitless possibility in protecting this precious place - from conservation, to access, to education. We believe that now is the time to re-imagine the future of Camp and realize this future together.
VALUES AND PROGRAMS
RESILIENCE
Camp helps children discover and develop their whole self, cultivate friendships and communities of service, and build confidence and independence. It helps them find and make new friends with people they might not otherwise have met. These friendships, skills, and experiences often stay with children throughout their lives, life long and enrich our physical, emotional, and metaphysical lives in ways we never even imagined. We are deeply motivated to expand the right of all children to develop themselves in this way should it serve them.
INCLUSION
Communities built on respect and integrity support children in their development of identity, awareness, and capacities for compassion and empathy. Camp allows each child to grow independently and as a part of a community of children who bring their own beautiful abilities and physical, social, economic and historically diverse selves and experiences. We seek partnerships and programs that cultivate inclusive behaviors and language practices, and institutionalize equitable decision-making structures rooted in acceptance and access.
NATURE
The benefits of green, blue, and open spaces is well documented and especially potent for children - from improved cognition and physical health, occupational function, social and emotional health, and awareness of environment and behavioral change. However, the health, socio-economic, and emotional burdens that too many children carry based on their race, gender, physical abilities, and income are rooted in systemic injustices that have resulted in unequal access to places like Camp.
As climate change impacts accelerate, our relationship to the precious Cape Cod Bay, freshwater wetlands, sand dunes, and tidal flats is more important than ever. Equally important is reckoning with the erasure of indigenous peoples, knowledge, and stewardship of sacred landscapes like those on Cape Cod. Our aim is to hold space for all ways of knowing and support the relationship of all children to this earth, sea, and sky.
Summer Camp Program
Host Day and Resident camp programs
Build a world-class staff and leadership team that can shape and support independent, self-aware, and empathetic young people
Offer activities such as soccer, basketball, archery, woodworking, ceramics, 2-D & 3-D visual art, theater, photography
Offer water sports include swimming, sailing, kayaking, windsurfing, and waterskiing
Youth Education and Leadership Program
Deliver a world-class youth-to-youth mentoring and development program
Develop youth leadership experience and participate in the stewardship and service to the Camp and broader community
Partner with schools and community-based organizations to activate facilities for research, learning, events, creativity, ecological conservation, and discovery
Conservation and Stewardship Program
Create spaces for public access and shared stewardship of the precious resources at the property
Partner with community-based, academic, philanthropic and educational organizations to implement cutting edge research, design, citizen-based science, and knowledge sharing programs around conservation , well being, and climate change
Model resilient coastal adaptation, landscape design, and nature-based climate solutions