Where every child gets a summer
worth remembering
Oak Tree Camps has been successfully providing a summer of safe, age-appropriate, and memorable experiences for children for over 15 years. At Oak Tree Camps, we go beyond being just a day camp – we are a close-knit family where every camper feels seen, heard, and understood. With a diverse range of activities and a supportive environment, we provide a memorable experience for rising kindergartners to age 14. No two days are alike at our camp, as we offer a dynamic blend of arts and crafts, exciting outdoor activities, engaging games, stimulating STEAM projects, invigorating dance sessions, and delightful cooking adventures. Join us at Oak Tree Camps for a summer filled with growth, friendship, and endless fun!
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The success of our program is based, in part, on:
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High standards of care for your children
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High expectations and training of our staff and counselors
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Attention to detail and placing your whole childs well being as our priority
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Expectations and standards of learning through play make sure we stand out from the rest.
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Oak Tree is a family. The well-being of your children, both physically as well as emotionally, continues to be our number one priority.
Vision
Oak Tree Camps exists to provide quality summer camp experiences to local youth so they can reach their full potential as active, responsible, and caring members of our community. We envision a Metro Atlanta where every child, regardless of what their family earns, spends summer learning, growing, and belonging.
Mission
At Oak Tree Camps, our mission is to make camp experiences accessible to all children, regardless of their backgrounds or circumstances. We believe in creating an inclusive and supportive environment where every camper feels seen, heard, and understood in a safe and fun environment. Through our programs, we aim to foster a love for being outdoors, creating lifelong friendships, and a sense of belonging that lasts beyond the summer months.
Hands-on Learning
Designed to expose students to a wide variety of skills, topics, occupations, hobbies, and events that would not be covered in a traditional classroom setting. Hands-on experiences can involve the following: through guest speakers, STEAM experiments, field trips, cooking, photography, and creative arts. Every day brings something new.
THE OAK TREE ENRICHMENT TRIAD MODEL
Creative Thinking
Promote the development of thinking and feeling processes such as: Creative thinking, problem solving, and critical thinking skills. Campers build confidence through non-verbal, oral, and visual communication across a wide range of projects and challenges.
Guided Learning
Campers assume the role of the first-hand inquirer. The goals of these type activities include the following: Providing opportunities to apply interests, knowledge, creative ideas, and short term commitment to a specific activity. Campers are given the opportunity to develop self-directed learning skills in the areas of planning, organization, decision-making, self-evaluation, and team building .
Why it matters
Research consistently shows that low-income children lose two to three months of academic progress over the summer while their higher-income peers gain ground. That gap is known as the summer slide — and it compounds every year.
Quality structured programming directly counteracts it. Oak Tree is one of the few places in Metro Atlanta where that programming is accessible to every family, at every income level.
Summer is not equal and
Oak Tree exists to change that.
1 / We close the summer learning gap for families who can't close it themselves
Families earning under $40,000 cannot access quality structured summer programming without financial support. Our need-based tuition assistance — funded from our own operating revenue — covers 50 to 100 percent of the cost for qualifying families. We don't wait for donations to serve these families. We serve them first.
2 / We serve the full income spectrum — together, in the same program
Most nonprofit camps serve only low-income families. Most private camps serve only families who can pay. Oak Tree does something rare: we serve both, side by side. A child from a $25K household and a child from a $75K household attend the same program, meet the same counselors, and build friendships that cross the economic divide. That kind of integration is socially meaningful in a way that separated programs can never be.
3 / We build the STEAM pipeline Metro Atlanta's economy needs
Atlanta's major employers — Coca-Cola, Delta, Home Depot, and others — need a local workforce in technology, engineering, and science. Oak Tree introduces coding, robotics, and hands-on STEAM to children ages 5–14, including children from families who couldn't otherwise access specialty programming. Every child who leaves Oak Tree with a love of building, coding, or creating is a future contributor to this city's economy.
4 / Fifteen seasons of proof that this works
Oak Tree has served over 2,000 children since 2011. We survived a pandemic by pivoting to an open-air format at Stone Mountain Park. We expanded to two locations in 2026. We have never turned a family away because of an inability to pay. Fifteen consecutive seasons is not a marketing claim — it's a track record that the families of Metro Atlanta have voted for with their enrollment, year after year.
From camper to Camp Lead —
Jordan's story.
Camper →Counselor in Training →Counselor →Camp Lead →Book Scholarship Recipient
Jordan first came to Oak Tree Camps as a young camper, when Oak Tree partnered with Emory University's Graduation Generation program to provide camp access to underserved youth at a reduced rate. He came back as a Counselor in Training. Then as a counselor. Today, Jordan is our Camp Lead — the person responsible for the daily program that every Oak Tree camper experiences each summer. Oak Tree awarded Jordan our first book scholarship to support his college education in 2019.
That arc — a child who became the adult leading the program — is the most honest answer we have to the question "does any of this actually matter?" It matters. We've watched it happen over fifteen years, one child at a time.
Support Oak Tree Camps
Oak Tree has self-funded over $45,000 in tuition assistance since 2022 — from our own operating revenue, before receiving a single donor dollar for this purpose. Your donation directly sustains that assistance for families who qualify and expands our reach to families still waiting to hear yes
Oak Tree Camps, Inc. · 501(c)(3) Nonprofit · EIN 87-3181857 ·
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