This year, The Felix Organization has been given the honor of participating in WNET’s popular annual broadcast, American Graduate Day. Since 2012, PBS has aired American Graduate Day, a live broadcast and outreach event dedicated to engaging our country around the high school dropout crisis. Focused on telling stories, creating resources, and building community connections, this annual telecast seeks to successfully guide students along the path to graduation. This year, with the graduation rate at an all-time high, American Graduate Day is expanding the conversation and stories beyond the high school diploma, highlighting the inspiring individuals and organizations helping students graduate
For the past twelve summers, The Felix Organization has had the special privilege of hosting Camp Felix for hundreds of children from the NYC foster care system. In that time, 55 former campers have become counselors-in-training, volunteers, or paid staff members. Since the beginning, Camp Felix has given our children the chance to leave behind their difficult circumstances and gain independence, make new friends and explore the natural world at our campus in Putnam Valley, New York. As always, our mission is to continue providing new experiences and inspiring opportunities for children in foster care. In that spirit, we launched a new Camp Felix East (Felix Getaway) for teen girls hosted at
Since the summer of 2006, Camp Felix has been a special place where children in foster care can feel safe, experience new things and discover their passions with the support of their counselors and new friends. Camp Felix was built on a simple motive: to support the 12,000 children in foster care in New York City. They ended up in foster care through no fault of their own, yet they are burdened with higher rates of mental and physical illnesses and more learning disabilities. As adults, they are unable to complete high school, they must frequently depend on welfare and social services, and often end up in jail. The statistics are clear - we are not doing enough as a society to help foster ch
