Long Island Polar Plunge

2008 total raised: $35,000!

March 1, 2008 at 2 p.m.
at James Caples Memorial Park Beach
Amityville, New York

Camp Sunshine is pleased to announce the 2008 Long Island Polar Plunge. We believe that together we can send many more children with life-threatening illnesses and their families to our one-of-a-kind retreat in Maine.

With the strength of an event such as the Long Island Polar Plunge and the resources of Camp Sunshine, it is our goal to raise in excess of $25,000 in 2008. That is enough to send more than 16 families to Camp Sunshine.

Why a Long Island, 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 (many from the Long Island area) 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.