Partners, Sponsors, and Educational Alliances
Mission Partner
A Mission Partner helps ACA ensure a greater public understanding, of and support, for the value of the camp experience. Companies at this level have proven longevity with ACA and have earned the highest level of distincttion through significant philanthropic investments and marketing affilaitions.
Markel Insurance Company
Through generous funding from Markel Insurance Company, ACA conducted the Healthy Camp Study, a five-year camper and staff injury and illness monitoring project, from 2006-2010. In 2011 ACA and Markel will launch the Healthy Camp Monitoring and Education Program. Learn more.
Presidential Partner
A Presidential Partner will help ACA ensure that an increasing number of children, youth, and adults of all social, cultural, and economic groups will have a camp experience through significant philanthropic investments and marketing affiliations.
- Lands' End Camp: Through their partnership, they are sponsoring ACA's interactive Find a Camp database for parents and families and providing educational packing tips. Lands' End Camp's investment will help ensure that families are able to find the right camp experience for their child and that children are sent to camp well-equipped for fun and safety.
-
Late July: 10% of the profits from the sale of these chips will go to the American Camp Association ® to provide summer camp scholarships to kids in need. We wish every child could have a chance to explore in the woods, swim in the ocean, sit by a campfire under a starlit sky and all the other reasons we named our company Late July ®. Read a letter to ACA parents from co-founder and CEO Nicole Bernard Dawes.
Official Camp Ambassador
An Official Camp Ambassador is a company that has a strong voice for camp and understands the importance of the camp experience by supporting ACA’s educational programs through a charitable gift.
Official Camp Leader
An Official Camp Ambassador is a company that has a strong voice for camp and understands the importance of the camp experience by supporting ACA's educational programs through a charitable gift.
- National Recreation and Park Association: The National Recreation and Park Association collaboration supports the development of online courses for directors, managers, and front-line staff; Nature-Based Leadership Development; and promotion and dissemination of camper and staff injury and illness research. Learn more.
Official Camp Champion
An Official Camp Champion is a company that supports ACA initiatives, ensuring that the camp experience will be of high quality through a philanthropic contribution.
Camp Believer
A Camp Believer is a company that supports the cause of sending more children to camp through a cause marketing campaign with fundraising support to ACA.
- ACA PurchasingPoint Program: This program will save your camp money through special negotiated contracts with national known suppliers that your camps are already using on a daily basis. Never before have camps had this buying power. Learn More.
- Colorado Yurt Company: Sending kids to camp through your fundraising support and purchases. Learn More.
- Rocky Mountain Sunscreen: Sending kids to camp through your purchases. Save 10% on sun protection products. Learn More
Camp Supporter
A Camp Supporter is a company that believes in the great work of ACA and wants to give back to the community through educational support or a guarenteed amount of philantrhropic investments.
- FlagHouse: Special pricing availalble to ACA camps and members on Sporting, PE, Fitness, Special Needs products and education - SAVE on over 20,000 products. Learn More
- John Deere: Maintain your camp facilities and save on your grounds equipment purchases. Learn More.
- Nationwide Instruction for Cardiovascular Education: Get your AED’s through NICE for only $895! Receive advanced life-saving equipment and training for ACA camps at the absolute lowest prices available. Learn More.
- RamKoh: Now offering it's recently patented Port-A-Bench to ACA members at preferred pricing and contributing a percentage of all related sales back to ACA to assist campers in need. Learn More
- VR Quest: Bringing Virtual Reality introduces education through game design to camps, encouraging team building and real interaction among campers bridging common goals. Special pricing for ACA camps and 10% of sales will be donated to Send a Child to Camp national scholarship program. Learn More
Conference Sponsor
Conference Sponsors are companies that support the ACA National Conference programs and educational sessions by sponsoring a special event, item, or a specific session through a substantial sponsor investment. View this year's sponsors.
An educational Alliance is a collaboration with an entity that participates in a reciprocal exchange of programs/services with ACA, or that works with ACA towards a common educational goal. Most educational alliances are defined through a memorandum of understanding or other such agreement.
Media Partner
A print or broadcast resource entity who collaborates with ACA to promote the value of the camp experience to parents and the public.>
- USA Today; CAMP Today: Publishes ACA camp-related articles and runs an ACA ad in 4 issues a year to over 5 million readers. Special advertising rates for ACA camps.
- TeenLife Media, LLC: Provides resources to families, schools, and high school students with summer and gap year progras.
- Moms4FamilyTV.com: Encouraging Better TV for Families. Visit www.moms4familytv.com for listing of television shows that the entire family can enjoy. Reaching over 100,000 families.
- Outdoor Baby: Publishes ACA camp-related articles and videos.
Printer Friendly
