current stats! (last updated: 9/19/2025)
- Chantal Recovery $ Raised thus far: $6145.18
- Driveway Repair Estimated Cost: $30,000 of which camp will pay HALF= $15,000
- Distance to Goal: $8854.82
- Repair status: Currently underway!
fundraising concert with Emma’s Revolution Oct. 4!
CONCERT with Emma’s Revolution with special guest Khallori Cosmey:
OCT 4, 7 p.m.
Community Church 106 Purefoy Rd, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Ticket Price: $25 in advance; $30 at the door
$20 Livestream (you can enjoy this concert from ANYWHERE!)
No one turned away for lack of pay
All proceeds from ticket sales for the concert after expenses will benefit Clapping Hands Farm’s Chantal Recovery.
“Sponsorship” level tickets cost $45 and includes Concert + DINNER & MEET and GREET before the concert: The EXTRA money for the “Sponsorship” level benefits the immigrant family that the Community Church sponsors and the mom from this family will be making the food for the dinner! Children from this family came to camp this summer so we are very glad this fundraiser will also benefit them!
BUY TICKETS HERE: https://emmasrevolution.com/
Please spread the word!
If you are coming to the concert and want to make an additional donation for the driveway repair; OR if you can’t make this concert but still want to make a donation. . . Please donate directly to the Chantal Recovery at Clapping Hands using the instructions below!
HOW TO DONATE TO Clapping Hands CHANTAL RECOVERY:
how to donate if you don’t need a tax deduction
If a tax deduction is not important to you, you can donate directly to us and the scholarship program will get all or most of your donation if you do it this way.
- Donate on our GoFundMe site! GFM site donations have a small fee to cover credit card processing. There is a 2.9% standard processing fee plus $.30 for each donation, which we are happy to pay.
- Donate directly to us using Venmo @ClappingHandsFarm and no fees will apply on our end (please note that you can send funds for free through Venmo using a bank account, but they charge 3% to the sender for credit cards)
- Send a check to Clapping Hands Farm, 3348 Alston Chapel Road, Pittsboro, NC 27312. No fees!!
tax deductible donations
Clapping Hands is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the charitable purposes of Clapping Hands must be made payable to “Fractured Atlas” only and are tax deductible to the extent permitted by law. We LOVE our relationship with Fractured Atlas. They take a small % of each donation, but we feel we get so much in return.
If you would like to make a tax deductible donation by check, please make the check out to Fractured Atlas and send it to the Clapping Hands address: 3348 Alston Chapel Road, Pittsboro, NC 27312. You may also make a tax deductible donation with a debit card or credit card ONLINE at our donation page on the Fractured Atlas website.
donating with a donor advised fund or stocks
We can accept donor advised funds and stocks through our fiscal sponsor FRACTURED ATLAS. Donor Advised Fund checks can be sent DIRECTLY from your fund to the Fractured Atlas PO Box 55, Hartsdale NY 10530-0055. If you have a donor advised fund, please request that the gift be made to Fractured Atlas, with Clapping Hands as the gift designation. If your fund managers have any questions about fiscal sponsorship or Clapping Hand’s relationship with Fractured Atlas you can learn more at the Fractured Atlas website or reach out to us directly.
Please contact us at clappinghandsfarm@gmail.com if you would like to donate stocks.
TROPICAL STORM CHANTAL
tropical storm chantal damage and repair story!
On July 6, 2025 The flash flooding from Tropical Storm Chantal overflowed the pond on our driveway and did serious damage to the pond dam. We had just had significant work done on the dam a few months before; all of that work was washed away. Because the pond dam is part of our driveway (we drive over it to get to camp) we spent the rest of the summer walking or shuttling campers into camp (depending on the age of the camper and the weather!)
Because “putting it back like before” seemed vulnerable to this happening again, James, our driveway guy, recommended that we:
- Repair the dam and the driveway from the forceful water damage; and reinforce that work in a more substantial way. (picture heavy duty landscape cloth held down by many small boulders.)
- Raise the dam a little on the north side
- Install a storm drain that will fill from the top when the water reaches a certain height and at that point will send water through a 48 inch concrete pipe; the design of the storm drain can push MANY gallons of water through quickly. So, hopefully this significant upscaling of the dam technology will help prevent the pond from overflowing in the future.
This work is expensive. We brought the cost down a lot by harvesting dirt from our land instead of trucking it in; that saved at least $7000. But, even so, the total cost is estimated to be $30,000. The pond is on our neighbors land, but since camp is 99.9% of the traffic on the driveway, we are splitting the cost of the repair. Thus, in addition to the fundraising we do for our no one turned away camp scholarship program000 we are adding $15,000 for driveway restoration!
Repairs are underway NOW!
SCHOLARSHIP FUNDRAISING
clapping hands farm no one turned away scholarship program
In addition to the money we are raising for the storm damage, we routinely need to raise tens of thousands of dollars every year for our scholarship program. At Clapping Hands Farm no one is turned away if they can’t afford camp. We operate on a pay as you can basis; between ⅓ and ½ of our campers receive scholarship help.
In 2025 we had our first full schedule of summer camps and year round programs with a full complement of campers since before the pandemic. We gave out over $60,000 worth of scholarship assistance; we are still raising money to cover our 2025 programs. We plan a similar program for 2026.
When we have raised enough for the dam repair we will continue fundraising for our scholarship program!
