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Mission:

To educate and empower girls and young women through outdoor experiences enabling them to reach their potential.

Vision:

Camp Nakanawa develops the potential of girls and young women in a nurturing environment to discover their own excellence while developing lifelong friendships. We fulfill this vision by cultivating character, confidence, courage, kindness, and leadership. 

For over one hundred years, Camp Nakanawa has educated girls and young women through outdoor experiences in an overnight summer camp so that they gain confidence and reach their full potential. For 40 of those years, Ann and Pepe Perron have faithfully stewarded Camp, ensuring that it remains a magical spot for young women to truly grow into the best versions of themselves. In honor of their legacy, and in conjunction with the arrival of Camp’s Fourth director, Karen Rathgeber Hale, Camp Nakanawa is transitioning to a 501(c)3 nonprofit educational institution. This transition enables Camp to seek the philanthropic gifts that will preserve its legacy, while better accommodating future generations of campers.
Our annual fund will become a necessary resource to support camp facilities, provide outstanding programming and maintain our buildings and grounds.  The annual fund touches the lives of campers and counselors every summer.  Consider a yearly contribution or a monthly pledge to support Nakanawa’s annual fund.   Planned gifts are an excellent way to build and grow an endowment. If you would like more information on the ways in which you may leave Camp Nakanawa in your estate plans, please email Ginny Bass Carl at ginny@givingwellok.com.
Donate to Nakanawa

Camp Nakanawa has a long and storied past. Each of us associated with camp, whether for the summer or year round, can help ensure that Nakanawa will have an equally great future. After more than a hundred years of continuous operation as a privately owned tradition- al, all-girls summer camp, in October 2021 Nakana- wa’s owners filed official paperwork to convert to a non-profit governed by a Board of Directors. Nakanawa has been operating as a non-profit since that day and duly received its IRS 501(c)(3) approval in December 2022. Today, we operate with the same lasting, time tested values and traditions that have made Nakanawa so impactful in the lives of five generations of campers and counselors.

Nakanawa Strategic Plan
Special Fundraisers

Donate To A Specific Camp Fund

You may feel inspired to help with a particular project at Camp Nakanawa. There are unique funds and causes available for you to contribute to as well. 

Community Foundation Endowment Fund

Donations support our endowment through the Chattanooga Foundation to preserve Camp Nakanawa.

The camp has partnered with the Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga, to manage its endowment.  An endowment will provide the long-term support camp needs to ensure its financial stability and build the foundation on which future programs and facility enhancements can be developed and implemented.

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Elisabeth Mitchell Charitable Trust

Mitch’s most significant memorial is the Elisabeth Mitchell Charitable Trust, a 501(c)3 nonprofit begun by Ann and Pepe Perron.  During camp’s 75h celebration, Georgia Graham Mattern and other members of Tent Row ’81 spearheaded an effort to solicit donations for the Trust.  They presented camp with a $10,000 check, leading the way for future donors.  The Trust provides camperships, now referred to as Tuition Waivers, to children who would not otherwise be able to afford a summer camp experience, and it has allowed hundreds of donors to honor the memory of Nakanawa’s beloved second Director.

While we work diligently to get the online donation link up and running for EMCT,  please mail checks to the address below.

Camp Nakanawa
Attn: EMCT
1084 Camp Nakanawa Road
Crossville, TN 38571

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The Camp Nakanawa Gift Acceptance Policy will govern the acceptance of any and all gifts.  Special conditions may apply to gifts other than cash or publicly traded securities.  A copy of the Gift Acceptance Policy is available on request.

Camp Nakanawa is a Tennessee nonprofit corporation and approved 501(c)(3) status by the IRS. Public charity status: 509(a)(2)

Planned Gifts

Planned gifts are an excellent way to build and grow an endowment. If you would like more information on the ways in which you may leave Camp Nakanawa in your estate plans, please email Ginny Bass Carl.

  • mailto: ginny@givingwellok.com
Planned Giving Guide

990 Documentation

2021 PDF of Camp Nakanawa's 990 Documentation

Annual Report

2023 Annual Report
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