To: All Lions and Lioness Clubs in District 4-C1

From: Health Foundation Board of Directors

Re: Support for McCumber Camps Diabetic Camps

Your Health Foundation organizes and runs two youth summer camps each year. We hold these at Camp McCumber near Shingletown. Our camps are there to serve youngsters who have diabetes. Most of us cannot predict if and when children from our clubs or the areas near us will need camp services until the need is immediate. Thus, we need your support for our camps every year even if you don’t plan to send a camper.

You can support the Health Foundation camps with a general donation for camperships or by buying a Foundation membership.  The Pryde, Story, and Eaton awards are $150 each (see membership categories below) and come with a vest patch and an engraved plaque you can designate to honor an individual club member.  Our 4-C1 Health Foundation Supporter patch is $50 and our first model of the Camp McCumber Diabetic Camp Supporter patch has been reduced to $25.  In addition, we have initiated a new patch which reads “4-C1 Camp McCumber Diabetic Camp Supporter,” also $50 that can be used to thank several club members each year.

In order to make the camps affordable to clubs and to individual campers we charge $400* for the full week. The cost to us is over $600 per camper. Other camps in other areas offer a shorter camp experience for more money. We are continually attempting to improve the quality of the camping experience by offering more and newer recreational and educational activities and materials.

* See application for "out of District" fees and areas covered by the District.

Please consider putting us into your annual budget.  View additional information about Camp McCumber.

DISTRICT 4-C1 HEALTH FOUNDATION
Board of Directors, 2011-12

Membership Categories for
District4-C1 Health Foundation

* Buck Pryde, Stan Story and Ken & Ann Eton Awards include a vest patch and plaque.  Minimum payments of $50.00 per year. Full pledge to be paid in 5 years.

DISTRICT 4-C1 HEALTH FOUNDATION
1195 Hazel Street
Gridley, CA 95948-2407

Lions 4C-1 Health Foundation - a charitable, non-profit public benefit corporation under section 501(c)(3) of the IRS code, Federal ID# 94-3233706.

History and information about the camp:

1. 1. The Diabetes and Mobile Health Unit Foundation was formed with efforts by Ken and Ann Eaton, Buck Pryde, and many others in the late 1970's.

1. It focused on the Diabetic Camp.
2. The Mobile Health Unit was a service to the district. Ken Eaton paid the up-front money and the Humanitarian Foundation helped pay for it.
3. By the late 90’s, the Mobile Health Unit was no longer in demand and was sold.
4. Camps for sight-impaired (low-vision) have been attempted, with limited success.
5. Camps for deaf children have been offered initially by the Deaf Foundation.

2. In 2000 the Hearing Foundation joined the Diabetes and Mobile Health Foundation and the name was changed to “District 4-C1 Health Foundation.”
3. We conduct our camps at Camp McCumber, located about 7 miles east of Shingletown on Highway 44.
4. Our Camp for Children with Diabetes has been very successful. For many years we had 35 – 40 campers along with the appropriate staff of counselors, nurses, doctors, and administration. In recent years we have increased the number of campers to about 65, which with an almost one to one ratio of staff, is about the maximum we can handle. Gridley Lion PDG Bob Trueax is the member of our board responsible for the camp.
5. Occasionally we receive grants, some with restrictions and some without, of which the board carefully plans for and monitors their use. While these grants are of great help in funding the camps, they are usually one time only and do not cover the expenses of running the camps for very long.
6. Our Foundation operates camps at a bargain to the camper. The amount we charge is more than $200 less than the cost of running the camp per camper. Even at this reduced rate, about 50% of the campers cannot afford the entire amount we charge, so we find camperships to pay the difference. It is our policy to not turn away a camper because of lack of funds for tuition. We will always be in need of funds to offset the gap. Club donations, campership donations and District Governor donations are our major sources of income. As a token of good faith, Diabetes campers and staff do have a fund-raiser each year to help defray costs.
7. To contact us, write a letter to us at 1195 Hazel St., Gridley, CA 95948-2407 or e-mail rtrueax@wcisp.com.

BYLAWS of the
LIONS HEALTH FOUNDATION OF DISTRICT 4-C1
A California Nonprofit Benefit Corporation

ARTICLE I
Name

Section 1: This organization shall be known as the Lions Health Foundation of District 4-C1.

ARTICLE II
Objectives

Section 1: The Foundation is organized to facilitate the promotion and operations of camps particularly for diabetic, hearing impaired and visually impaired persons; to provide equipment, assistance and consultation to youth and adults; to promote health awareness and education; to provide a health screening mobile unit for the detection of medical disorders of the public, especially those persons living in rural areas in District 4-C1 of Lions Clubs International. * Health Unit service has been suspended*

ARTICLE III
Headquarters

Section 1: The headquarters of this Foundation shall be designated by the Board of Directors.

ARTICLE IV
Membership

Section 1: The Foundation shall have a membership of nine (9), each of whom shall be a member of the governing Board of Directors. All members shall be members in good standing of Lions Clubs International and belong to a Lions Club or Lioness Club within Lions District 4-C1.

ARTICLE V
Board of Directors

Section 1: The Board of Directors shall consist of nine (9) Directors. Each Director shall be appointed by the Lions Governor of District 4-C1 and serve a two-year term. If a vacancy occurs during a term, the Board of Directors will recommend a candidate to the District Governor for appointment.

ARTICLE VI
Meetings

Section 1: The Directors shall meet at least four (4) times a year at a time and place designated by the Chairman (President) of the Board of Directors.

ARTICLE VII
Officers

Section 1: The Directors shall annually select a member of the Board as President.

Section 2: The Directors shall annually select other Board members to be Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer.

ARTICLE VIII
Disbursements

Section 1: No disbursement of the funds of the Foundation shall be made unless with approval of the Board of Directors at a duly held meeting. All disbursements shall be made by check requiring two authorized signatures. One of the two signatures must be from an officer of the Board of Directors.

ARTICLE IX
Amendments to the Bylaws

Section 1: These Bylaws may be amended or altered by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the Board of members present at any regular or special meeting of the Board of Directors, provided notice of the proposed change shall have been mailed to each Board Member not later than ten (10) days prior to such a meeting.

 
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