Christopher McCandless
Memorial Foundation
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
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