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ACA Camp Business Operations Report: 2009
Is Hot Off the Press!
Access
the most recent budget and finance data
for camps. Questions
this year included scholarship information,
discounts, marketing strategies used, revenue
sources, weekly fees, expenditures, profitability,
and more. For ease of application, there
are two sets of findings: one for resident
camps and one for day camps. Each set (resident/day)
includes:
- Succinct narrative of the summary of
findings
- Contents page of all the break-outs
for the data tables
- Breakouts that include sponsorship,
region, camper days, gross revenue, and
profit margin
- Appendix that provides information
on the way the data were collected and
analyzed
We suggest you start by reading the findings
summary to get an overview of the data,
then look at the more in-depth information
provided in the tables. Coming later this
spring will be specific “profiles” based
on sponsorship (agency, religiously-affiliated,
nonprofit, and private for profit) that
will specifically highlight the budget-finance
information in a couple of pages for just
that type of camp.
The reports are modestly priced with day-only
or resident-only reports for members at
$10 ($75 for non-members). For camps that
might want both reports (day and resident),
the member price is $20 ($125 for non-members).
Purchase
the reports.
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Last Chance to Share Your Opinions on the
2009 Camp Emerging Issues Survey!
The survey is open one more week. Complete
the online survey before Friday, March 6th!! Every opinion is important,
so please invest fifteen minutes of your time to help us identify the important
issues on the horizon for camp professionals!
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New Camp Outcomes Measures to Target Decision-Making
and Problem Solving
This summer, the Not-For-Profit Council’s
generous support will allow ACA to develop
and pilot two new outcomes’ measures
focusing on decision-making and problem-solving.
The Council has been instrumental in the
development of ACA’s Youth Outcomes
Battery (YOB) for day and resident camps.
Seven outcomes measures and analysis templates
were created in 2006 and a new Affinity
for Nature measure was developed last summer.
All ACA outcomes measures are reliable
and valid, age appropriate, and have been
tested in camps. For information on the
YOB, please visit the research Web page: www.ACAcamps.org/research.
Any camp interested in serving as a pilot
camp this summer for the development of
the problem-solving and decision-making
tools, please contact Deb Bialeschki, dbialeschki@ACAcamps.org.
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Healthy Camp Study Enrollment Now Open
Want
to gain a powerful risk management tool
for identifying and assessing injuries
and illness at your camp? Enroll
your camp in Year 4 of the Healthy Camp
Study today. Participation
is FREE, confidential, and it’s okay
if you didn’t participate in years
1-3. You’ll devote about twenty
minutes each week to enter data into an
easy online system. Each participating
camp receives a detailed camp-specific
report analyzing the injuries and illnesses
of that camp, along with a national report
for comparison. Become
one of the hundreds of camps benefitting
from this important study.
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