Center Day Camp

Center Day Camp (CDC) is a day camp run by the Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that coordinates, promotes, and supports the Jewish philanthropic, benevolent, educational, and communal activities in Southern Maine.

CDC provides a traditional Maine summer camp experience for campers on the wooded shores of Lake Sebago.

Twenty minutes from Portland, Maine, CDC sits on 27 acres (110,000 m2) of woods, fields, and shoreline.

Godfrey wanted to open the summer camp on Peaks Island, but he died of leukemia in January 1947 before taking his idea to fruition.

In 1949, Portland's Jewish community took out a loan of $9,500 (equivalent to $122,000 in 2023) in order to buy 12 acres (5 ha) on Sebago Lake as a permanent home for the camp.