UCLA UniCamp received a grant in support of their Volunteer Leadership and Training Program. UCLA UniCamp is the official student charity of UCLA, operating as an independently funded, secular, non-profit organization linking UCLA students with the Los Angeles community. Each year, UniCamp inspires over 1,000 children from low-income families to envision brighter futures by sending them, along with over 400 UCLA student volunteer counselors and staff to its residential outdoor summer camp in the San Bernardino mountains. For over 80 years, UniCamp student volunteers have harnessed the healing power of the wilderness to improve their community by providing a unique outdoor camping experience for under served children in the community.
There are many UniCamp campers that return as they get older to help other students have the same positive experiences that that they had. Once those volunteers go on they have continued to give back to their communities by holding public offices in the California legislature, serving as a Judge, a teacher or a lawyer that helps youth in the criminal justice system.