Camp Kilmer Alumni Foundation
Goals and Structure
1./ Research: Camp Kilmer
represents one of the most important (yet undeveloped) chapters in the history of the migration of Hungarians to the United
States. The Foundation would promote research regarding the Hungarian experience at Camp Kilmer, with a
view toward establishing its own research team, as well as supporting applicable third-party research.
2./ Development: In furtherance of its goals, the Foundation will seek to
partner with relevant domestic organizations and entities that had or have involvement with the Camp Kilmer site, including
U.S. government agencies and Rutgers University, as well as relevant Hungarian organizations and institutes (e.g., the 56th
Institute in Budapest ) and global cultural organizations.
3./ Database:
The Foundation will seek to establish a comprehensive database of all Hungarian refugees who passed through Camp Kilmer, extending
to the present whereabouts of their descendants.
4./ Analysis: In conducting its research and preparing the database, the Foundation will adopt rigorous quality-control
standards to assure the reliability of its data and analysis and to prevent fraud.
5./ Protection
and dissemination of work-product: The Foundation will take appropriate steps to protect the
intellectual property resulting from its research and it will have primary responsibility for the management, publication
and orderly dissemination of same, including dissemination to agencies of the U.S. government (including, but not limited
to, the Department of Education), federal, state and local historical societies, religious and other public services organizations,
institutes and think tanks and public and private research organizations.
6./ Publicity:
The Foundation will establish, develop and implement techniques to promote its activities in the research, academic and cultural
communities. The Foundation will devote significant resources to fostering positive media relationships.
7./ Film Project: The Foundation will consider the development of a proprietary documentary that would serve
to chronicle the Foundation’s research activities and focus on the role of Camp Kilmer in the larger historical context
of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and its aftermath.
8./ Membership: It is anticipated that the Foundation will be organized as a “membership” non-profit
entity in which those individuals who passed through Camp Kilmer as refugees would be afforded automatic lifetime membership.
The Board of Directors will continue to consider whether the descendants of such individuals will be entitled
to automatic or discretionary Foundation membership.
9./ Management:
The Foundation will be organized under the laws of the State of New Jersey. Its management will
consist of an elected Board of Directors that will act in a manner consistent with the governing bodies of similar not-for-profit
entities. The Board of Directors will be responsible for supervising the Foundation’s administrative officers, ensuring
transparent business dealings and monitoring progress with respect to achieving the Foundation’s goals.
10./ Funding: The Foundation will seek federal grants, scholarship funding from all
sources and corporate sponsorship and capital funding to establish the resources needed to achieve the above-mentioned goals
and purposes.
