ABC's therapeutic Camp Calvin encourages children’s academic and personal growth through six weeks of closely supervised and enjoyable educational, cultural, and recreational activities. In addition to more traditional academic activities, ABC's camp offers unique, hands-on experiences that promote children’s learning capacity and engage them outside a typical classroom environment, such as trips to museums, ballparks, zoos, landmarks, and parks. Many of ABC's campers have few other opportunities to leave their neighborhoods, let alone participate in a safe, exhilarating, and fun-filled summer camp.

Since many families in the East Harlem community struggle with hunger, the Summer Backpack Project will provide each camper with a backpack full of nutritious food to take home over the weekend. The goal is to prepare a backpack for all 70 ABC campers once per week for each of the six weeks of camp.