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Volunteering



Good Sam Club members volunteer thousands of hours annually to help the community, participate in road cleanups and park beautification projects, and provide assistance to fellow Good Sam members. Explore our Club’s many volunteer opportunities.

Volunteer Opportunities

Standby Sams

Adopt-A-Park Service

Cleanup Days

The 16th annual Good Sam National Cleanup Days have been designated as May 19th - 20th 2012. This event has been scheduled for the weekend before Memorial Day weekend in an effort to prepare our public lands for the traditional camping season. Chapters across the nation are encouraged to select a campground, park, or other public land of their choosing to pick up branches and trash.

This year’s Cleanup Days will be sponsored by Camping World where Good Sam members now enjoy savings of up to 30% on RV accessories and installations. Camping World encourages members to bring their full bags of trash to a Camping World SuperCenter where dumpsters will be available for trash disposal. After you’ve disposed of your trash, stick around for a while and enjoy fun, food (while supplies last) and other festivities that are part of Camping World’s 8th annual Grillfest – a celebration offering amazing savings on everything you need to gear up for the peak cookout and camping season.

As part of this year’s Cleanup Days, Chapters are eligible to enter a drawing where the members of the winning Chapter will receive a $25 Camping World Merchandise Certificate for each family membership in the Chapter! Each Chapter that collects 10 or more bags of trash is eligible to win. Simply send a photograph of your Chapter with the filled trash bags to your state or provincial director in order to be entered. For more information please contact your Chapter president, state/provincial director, or e-mail cleanupdays@goodsamclub.com.


State and Provincial Chapters & Directors

Adopt-A-Highway

SeriousFun Children’s Network

SeriousFun Children’s Network is a growing global community of innovative camps and programs that provide life-changing support to children with serious illnesses and their families. Previously known as The Association of Hole in the Wall Camps, in April 2012 the organization decided to changed its to underscore founder Paul Newman’s passionate belief in the power of taking fun seriously. SeriousFun Children’s Network remains deeply rooted in the philosophy that children with serious illnesses deserve an opportunity to simply be kids. Since the first camp’s inception in 1988, more than 384,700 children and their families have been served by SeriousFun Children’s Network, including over 253,800 children from 50 countries. Today SeriousFun Children’s Network includes 28 initiatives worldwide, all reaching beyond illness to help children and their families discover joy, confidence and a new world of possibility. SeriousFun Children’s Network and each of its member camps are independent not-for-profit organizations dependent upon private funding and the generosity of others to serve all children free of charge.

Learn more about SeriousFun Children’s Network


Dogs for the Deaf

Dogs for the Deaf, a favorite charity of the Good Sam Club, received over $103,000 in financial support from Good Sam Club Chapters and state organizations in 2011!

Good Sam began its partnership with Dogs for the Deaf back in 1980, just three years after Roy Kabat launched the organization in response to a need in the deaf community. A retired animal trainer, Kabat taught dogs to alert their hearing-impaired companions to doorbells, telephones, fire alarms and other sounds. His daughter, Robin Dickson, soon joined the effort of rescuing unwanted dogs from shelters and training them to help people with disabilities.

Dickson now heads Dogs for the Deaf, recognized as North America’s oldest and largest Hearing Dog institution, and the Good Sam Club is its primary donor group. With financial support from Good Sam Chapters and other benefactors, Dogs for the Deaf places trained dogs free of charge with people with hearing loss, autism, post-traumatic stress disorder and other physical and emotional challenges. The organization also provides dogs to teachers, physicians, counselors and working professionals to assist them with disabled students, patients and clients.

Dogs for the Deaf celebrates its 35th year in 2012! Learn more about Dogs for the Deaf at
dogsforthedeaf.org.