This vital fund helps campers who are experiencing financial hardships—often at the very moment when their family needs the support of our camp community the most.
Your Gift Matters
When you donate to the Ed and Dottie Hecker Assistance Fund, you:
Open doors for families who otherwise couldn’t attend camp
Strengthen our camp community with diversity and inclusion
Carry forward a legacy of compassion and generosity
Together, we can ensure that every family has the opportunity to create lasting Deer Valley memories.
A LEGACY OF GIVING
“Dottie would come into a room and she would automatically energize the place and get things going. She was just very in to people.”
John Joyce, long-time DV camper
Deer Valley is a place that is more meaningful to me than I can put into words. Over the years I have made lifelong friends through camping, staffing, and volunteering at DV. I have been blessed to find my wife (Patty Wehar) through DV—both proposing and marrying her on the shorelines of the lake. Patty and I have always felt blessed to have grown up going to a place where love, friendship, and happiness take priority above all else. And we don’t believe that financial hardship should hinder a family’s ability to have the same opportunities as we have had.