For Your Information
Nancamp was established in 1991. We have sent 337 children to YMCA summer camps since that time. We are an All Volunteer run organization.
Nancy Errera Bostley was the inspiration for Nancamp. Her family and friends created this unique program to honor her memory, and to continue the kindness and compassion she showed others during her life.
Nancamp is NOT a separate camp program. Eligible children attend the Marblehead/Swampscott YMCA’s summer day camp programs on Children’s Island and at the Marblehead/Swampscott YMCA building.
Our mission is to identify families affected by cancer and to offer the children in those families a two week YMCA summer day camp experience at no cost to the family.
Nancamp has been funded in part by the North Shore Medical Center Community Health Improvement Fund.
Nancamp has expanded its sponsorship to other YMCA programs, such as School Vacation Fun Clubs.
In the summer of 2007, Nancamp sent 22 children to Marblehead/Swampscott’s YMCA Summer Day Camps.
- 8 campers have cancer
- 5 campers were siblings of a child with cancer
- 7 of the children's mother, father or direct guardian had cancer
- 2 of the children's mother or father had recently died from cancer
Since 1991, Children from the following communities have participated in Nancamp:
Beverly
Chelsea
Danvers
Essex
Gloucester
Hamilton
Ipswich
Lynn
Lynnfield
Malden
Manchester
Marblehead
Nahant
Newburyport
North Andover
Peabody
Revere
Salem
Saugus
Swampscott
Topsfield
Wakefield
Wenham
West Newbury
Nancamp was the recipient of the 2001 Compass Award from the North Shore Medical Center Foundation. The citation recognized Nancamp for the “unique way it has contributed significantly to the well-being and health of others who live or work on the North Shore” and to “honor the unsung heroes in our North Shore communities for their significant contributions of time, personal dedication and resources.”
Nancamp recognizes an endowment in memory of Stefanie Beth Goldberg and grants from the Heritage Salem Five Foundation and the North Shore Medical Center Foundation.
