SCOPE Midwest Celebrates Dayna Hardin
SCOPE Midwest Celebrates Dayna Hardin
HONORING
Dayna Hardin
2025 Ben Appelbaum Advocate for Youth
About the Award & Dayna Hardin
Dayna Hardin is a visionary leader and passionate advocate for all children. As the Founder and Chair of SCOPE Midwest, Dayna has championed initiatives that create opportunities for underserved youth, ensuring every child has access to experiences that inspire growth, connection, and confidence. Her commitment to empowering future generations exemplifies the spirit of this award and leaves an indelible mark on the camping and youth development community. We look forward to celebrating Dayna with you on April 9, 2025!
All check contributions can be made out to:
SCOPE, 275 Madison Avenue, Suite 2110, New York, NY 10016
The SCOPE Midwest Board looks forward to
celebrating SCOPE and our event honorees on April 9!
The Impact of SCOPE Midwest
About SCOPE Midwest
We believe every child deserves to experience the transformative qualities of camp regardless of socio-economic background. SCOPE Midwest provides these life-changing experiences in partnership with 15+ nonprofit overnight summer camps in the Midwest. Since 2007, we have provided nearly 3,000 camp scholarships to local children from under-resourced communities in the Chicagoland area and the Midwest.
Who Benefits?
Campers – SCOPE Midwest provides camp scholarships to children from under-resourced communities whose families and/or childcare providers otherwise would not have the financial means to afford camp. These campers are given the gift of camp at no cost to their family. Once campers attend, they are invited to continue attending camp in future summers as long as they remain enrolled in school.
Camps – All proceeds from SCOPE Midwest go directly to sending a child to nonprofit, ACA-Accredited, overnight summer camps in the Midwest. Many of these camps provide year-round youth services. SCOPE Midwest partners with camps that are well-equipped to provide high-quality programming for the diverse and unique needs of their campers.
Communities – We know that the life skills developed at camp encourage children to reach their potential long after summer has ended. Each child who receives a SCOPE campership commits to staying in school. Communities are strengthened through education and SCOPE partner camps play an integral role in this development.