Pin Oak Foundation

Pin Oak Foundation supports organizations like Gardner Camp that give local children a chance to spend time outside! Support Pin Oak Foundation today at www.pinoakfoundation.org.

Honored by the support of Cason Huff and Schlueter, INC in serving our community youth with outdoor education!

🌌 ⭐️ 💫 🌟 🌌 Beautiful article about local collaboration and excitement among Rotary Club of Quincy, Pin Oak Foundation, Gardner Camp and Central Junior High School! Thank you, Debbie Husar, at the Herald-Whig!

Expanding science learning The latest addition to Gardner Camp will have area students traveling among the stars and planets without leaving Earth.

⭐️🌔 How many stars are in the sky? That is how many times we want to shout "thank you" to the Rotary Club of Quincy! Pin Oak Foundation expresses our endless gratitude and appreciation to Rotary members for their investment in this incredible community resource for local youth at Gardner Camp.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Pin Oak Foundation Receives Largest Grant to Date from Rotary Foundation of Quincy for Gardner Camp StarLab

A recent $35,000 donation will show Quincy area students that the sky is the limit when it comes to learning. The Rotary Foundation of Quincy presented the donation to the Pin Oak Foundation to help purchase a digital StarLab Planetarium, a unique learning experience in astronomy for area youth. Gardner Camp, in turn, is the direct beneficiary of this donation.

This donation advances the Rotary’s desire to support opportunities for improving our communities today by investing in the generation of tomorrow. By underwriting the StarLab, Rotarians are also supporting STEM education. (STEM is an acronym for science, technology, engineering, and math.) STEM helps students acquire useful skills for making informed, inquiry-based decisions and students to build foundations for success in their futures, regardless of their chosen career.

“We are tremendously grateful to the Rotary Foundation of Quincy. This donation allows us to bring a museum-quality planetarium to youth in our community and expand science learning for our schools,” states Amy Lefringhouse, Gardner Camp’s Executive Director.

For more information about Gardner Camp's astronomy program, visit https://gardnercamp.org/astronomy/

Pin Oak Foundation mourns the loss of Terry Anastas. Terry was an instrumental advisor for our Board of Directors; and was deeply committed, passionate and selfless in guiding the development of Pin Oak Foundation from its very beginning. He will be truly and sorely missed. We pray for and lift up his family, friends and loved ones at this time.

Teaching girls outdoor skills at Gardner Camp! Transportation to this kayaking classroom was provided by GC's new wheelchair-accessible passenger trailer provided by Pin Oak Foundation and Tracy Family Foundation!

Thank you Herald-Whig for sharing our news!

Pin Oak Foundation receives grant for Camp Gardner from Tracy Family Foundation Campers at Gardner Camp will be better able to explore the 372-acre site thanks to the purchase of a trailer made possible from a $13,750 Tracy Family Foundation grant.

GRATITUDE! We are thankful to the Tracy Family Foundation for awarding a grant toward the purchase of a passenger trailer for use in outdoor recreational and educational activities at Gardner Camp!

“We are so grateful to the Tracy Family Foundation and Pin Oak Foundation in supporting our youth outdoor education program. Ensuring that all children have access to the outdoors was the vision of Mr. John Willis "Jack" Gardner, II, when creating Gardner Camp. This grant is extremely helpful in bringing his vision to life. We are now able to transport youth to outdoor classrooms that were previously inaccessible,” states Amy Lefringhouse, Gardner Camp’s Executive Director.