Campership Challenge

Campership Challenge is an easy online way to help support Children’s Cancer Connection’s many Camp Heart Connection programs. While all of CCC’s camp programs are offered at no cost to Iowa families, they DO take a significant budget to operate. Campership Challenge was created to allow individuals a chance to raise funds for these one-of-a-kind camps that mean so much to hundreds of campers each year.  

Camp programs include weeklong Oncology and Sibling Camps, weekend-long Family and Teen Camps, and two weeks of Day Camp each summer. Campership Challenge is for everyone – current and former campers, and volunteer staff members, as well as CCC parents, grandparents and family friends! YOU can make a difference, and there are fun incentives, too!

Get started! 

Download the Campership Challenge Toolkit

The Campership Challenge Toolkit is full of tips and tricks to make your fundraising a success.

2026 Camper Incentives

The highest fundraiser gets a pizza party for their cabin or a cabin of their choice (one winner for Oncology Camp and one winner for Sibling Camp)!

  • $6,000 – Campership Challenge Plaque + Your name on a cabin sign at one of the weeks at Summer Camp 
  • $2,500 – One of a kind The Heart Connection blanket
  • $1,000 – Choose a member of the Directors Team to get a makeover for camp dance OR Choose a member of the Directors Team to pie in the face
  • $500 – Private arts & crafts time with Kenzie and Jake
  • $250 – Private s’more night with your cabin
  • $100 – Front row seating at Aunt Fifi night + Custom badge for name tag

The Deadline to guarantee prizes AT CAMP in 2026 is MAY 29th. Anything raised after that date will still be counted toward your fundraising goal, but physical prizes will NOT be given out after that date.

2026 Counselor/Volunteer Incentives

The highest fundraiser will get an invitation to our annual Stewardship Event (one winner for Oncology Camp and one winner for Sibling Camp)!

  • $6,000 – Campership Challenge Plaque 
  • $2,500 – One of a kind The Heart Connection blanket
  • $1,000 – Hand designed coffee mug by campers
  • $500 – One of a kind Camp Heart Connection t-shirt
  • $250 – Camp essentials goodie bag
  • $100 – Handmade bracelet/or keychain from campers
The Deadline to guarantee prizes AT CAMP in 2026 is MAY 29th. Anything raised after that date will still be counted toward your fundraising goal, but physical prizes will NOT be given out after that date.

Creating your page and getting started

  1. Follow THIS LINK to set up your personal fundraising page.
  2. Download the Campership Challenge Toolkit to help you get started. 
  3. Share your page on social media or through email with all your friends and family. Have them join you in supporting Children’s Cancer Connection’s camp programs!
  4. The more you raise, the more support you are providing for camp programs and the more fun incentives you can receive!