Christopher Johnson McCandless memorial Foundation
Chris McCandless Fund
After Christopher Johnson McCandless passed away in August 1992, his
parents, Billie and Walt McCandless, created a charitable trust called
the Christopher Johnson McCandless Memorial Fund whose purpose was to
distribute assets
to charities and individuals in Christopher’s memory. From 1992 until
the present, Christopher’s parents have managed and distributed the
assets in the memorial fund and the successive Foundation (2006) without
personal benefit.
The assets of the Fund known as Chris's Purpose were minimal before it
began to receive book royalties in 1996 from Jon’s book, “Into the
Wild.” Initially, Chris’s parents believed the fund’s limited assets,
primarily from magazine and newspaper use of Chris’s story and select
pictures from the 100’s of self photos he had taken on his journey,
would quickly be exhausted.
But this was not to be, as the story of Chris’s journey, researched and
told by Jon, began to gather momentum. Surprisingly and consistently,
when funds were distributed to a needy cause, a book royalty check for
an amount
greater than the gift would soon arrive. The Chris's Purpose could just
as easily be called God’s Purpose.
The Foundation received funds, in terms of a one time contract, from the
commission of the Into The Wild movie.
The foundation is also soon to release the book 'Chris’s Journey Through
His Eyes. It will contain Chris's pictures as he took off on his
adventures. As the foundation describes the book -
The camera provides an intimate glimpse into his soul and a view of his
world as it unfolded through his eyes. This photo journal renders a
heartbeat to Chris’s journey in the time sequence, tempo and rhythm as
it happened. You can look in reverse, essentially backward from the
scenes he captured and read his mind, feel his pulse and look into his
soul as he discovered new vistas and people.
Once the book has been released, we will update information on this
page.
You can contribute to the Christopher Johnson McCandless Memorial Fund
by contacting the organisation -
P. O. Box 66059, Virginia Beach, VA 23466 U.S.A
www.chrisspurpose.org
info@chrisspurpose.org
