Polar Bear Club’s New Year’s Day Polar Plunge

2008 Total Raised to Date: $30,000!

New Year's Day 2008 at 1 p.m.
at Riegelmann Boardwalk, Coney Island, NY

Camp Sunshine is pleased to have the opportunity to partner with the Coney Island Polar Bear Club for their 2008 Polar Plunge. We believe that together we can send many more children with life-threatening illnesses and their families from New York to our one-of-a-kind retreat in Maine.

Last year, the Coney Island Polar Plunge raised $25,000 for Camp Sunshine! With the strength of a world renowned event such as the Coney Island New Year’s Day Polar Plunge and the resources of Camp Sunshine, it is our goal to raise in excess of $50,000 in 2008. That is enough to send more than 32 New York families to Camp Sunshine.

Why a New York based event for a camp in Maine?

Since the opening of our year-round campus in 2001, more ill children and their families have come from New York than any other state in the nation. In 2007, 190 families from New York participated in our program. Sadly, even with multiple sessions being added annually at Camp Sunshine, there are still many more children from New York being newly diagnosed each year.

Our program continues to be recommended by the following New York treatment centers: Mount Sinai Medical Center, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, Schneider's Children’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York University Medical Center, Brooklyn Hospital Center, Westchester Medical Center,  Stony Brook Medical Center, and numerous others.