Mission Partner

• Markel Insurance Company
  Through generous funding from Markel Insurance Company, ACA is conducting the Healthy Camp Study, a five-year injury and illness monitoring project which will culminate in 2011 with a national Healthy Camp Symposium. 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.

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 Champion

• CampRegister, part of Active Network, is the leading provider of integrated technology solutions for camps, providing the comprehensive solution: camp management software, online registration, credit card processing, photo and e-mail services for parents, free publicity services, website tools, and more. CampRegister's premier system services some of the largest camps in the United States and Canada. Learn more.

Camp Believer

• Consorta – ACA Group Buying 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.
• White Hat Brands: Keep your campers healthy and parents happy with this nutritional beverage. Learn More.
• CampFriends.com: Connect with your current and past camp friends and make new ones. Learn More.
• Weekly Reader: Disseminate programs and educational materials nationally in school-based settings and summer camps. Programs are sponsored through national corporations. Learn More.

Camp Supporter

• National Joint Powers Alliance: ACA camps and members will enjoy discounts from over 45 nationally acclaimed vendors with thousands of products, all awarded under a national competitive bid process. Learn More.
• Payment Processing Consultants: Provides an easy way for ACA members and camps to secure low cost solutions for credit card acceptance. PPC specializes in providing programs that will enhance and add value to your camp family relationships. Learn More.
• John Deere: Maintain your camp facilities and save up to 28% off 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.
• FoodSource Plus: We understand the food business and what it takes for camps to run efficiently. We provide the most competitive pricing, while also providing you the highest quality products available. Learn More.
• Trinity/HPSI: Free Membership! Save Thousands of Dollars each year like many ACA members do, often without changing suppliers. Trinity Ministries, in affiliation with HPSI, can help substantially through agreements with U.S. Foodservice, SYSCO, Gordon Food Service, Sherwin-Williams, Office Depot, Staples, HD Supply, Suburban Propane, Ferrellgas, and many more. 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.

Educational Alliances

• Association for Challenge Course Technology (ACCT):
  An educational alliance in areas concerning the use of challenge courses at camps.
• Center for Youth Program Quality (formerly High/Scope):  Develop a tool for measuring camp quality including the unique nature-based setting of camp (C-YPQA). Learn more.
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Develop and disseminate health information concerning youth safety and health.
• Children and Nature Network:  Promote the importance of nature for children; joint promotion of ACA’s “Green Spoken Here” program;  reconnect children and nature by sharing articles and research; develop nature-based education tools for parents/families.
• FFA: Cross promotion and marketing of educational resources as part of the Camp2Grow project, providing camps with access to LifeKnowledge® leadership curriculum.
• Jewish Community Centers Association: Joint research on youth-serving program operations.
• Johns Hopkins, Center for Summer Learning: Promotion of the importance of summer learning experiences for all children; communications, marketing, and outreach to improve youth development outcomes and implement youth program quality assessment/tools. Learn more.
• Leave No Trace: Assist ACA in providing quality environmental stewardship and skills-building education programs for camp and youth professionals. Learn more.
• National Center for Missing and Exploited Children: Protect Screen collaboration with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to conduct criminal history background checks for ACA programs. Learn more.
• Pepperidge Farm and City Year: Direct support for urban youth in nature-based programs.
• Teach for America: Provide a continuum of care in the areas of youth development and leadership from camp age through early employment; promote ACA membership and camp employment to TFA applicants; disseminate educational materials about the camp experience to students in schools where TFA teachers are placed.  Learn more.
• Texas A&M University: Technology support for the e-Institute distance-learning network; partner in workforce development research proposal.
• University of Georgia, College of Education: Online course development for ACA’s e-Institute.  Examples include “Designing Quality Youth Programs,” “Creating Positive Youth Outcomes,” and new courses for parents and potential staff.
• University of Utah, Center for Health Sciences:  Development and testing of ACA’s Youth Outcomes Battery; Research to identify factors that lead to positive youth outcomes; Learn more.
• WGBH-Public Broadcasting, Boston, MA:  Dissemination of the “Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman” program to ACA camps, sponsored by a National Science Foundation grant dissemination or linking agreement. Learn more.
• Camp Fire USA: Letter of support for the Nature-Based Leadership Development Proposal; ACA affiliates and volunteers; collaborate on the national camp executives group.
• High/Scope—Forum for Youth Investment: To develop the nature-based YPQA (Youth Program Quality Assessment) tool; Nature-Based Leadership Development.
• The Innovation Center: Develop and pilot-test youth and civic engagement curriculum and training models for non-formal, nature-based settings.
• National 4-H Council: Support for dissemination of ACA’s educational resources; Nature-Based Leadership Development; collaborate on the national camp executives group; disseminate research and products related to youth outcomes and quality assessment.
• North Carolina State University: Improvement of active lifestyles with children in a proposal to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
• Penn State University, College of Health and Human Development: Developing a collaborative tool to improve decision-making in youth; seeking funding from National Institute on Drug Abuse. Learn more.
• The Salvation Army: Religiously-affiliated camps council participation.
• Search Institute: Spiritual development research and dissemination. www.search-institute.org/ 
• Stop Bullying Now!: Dissemination of the award-winning anti-bullying materials to ACA camps work. Learn more.
• America's Promise: The Alliance for Youth (Re-branded as “First Focus”):  Phillip Lovell, vice-president of Education, has served on the ACA Board of Directors for the past three years; Alliance partner www.americaspromise.org/APA.htm.
• Big Brothers Big Sisters of America: ACA affiliates and volunteers.
• Boy Scouts of America Inc.: ACA affiliates and volunteers; collaborate on the national camp executives group
• Boys & Girls Clubs of America: ACA affiliates and volunteers; collaborate on the national camp executives group.
• Girl Scouts of the USA:  ACA affiliates and volunteers; collaborate on the national camp executives group.
• YMCA of the USA: ACA affiliates and volunteers; collaborate on the national camp executives group; offer shared dissemination on camp-related education.

OTHER

• Virginia Tech:  Partner in workforce development research proposal
• LifeLock: Protect your identity from being stolen and support ACA through your LifeLock membership.  Learn More

Media Partner

• 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.
• Chicago Tribune: Publishes ACA camp-related articles and runs an ACA ad in their special camp guide issue to over 865,000 households. Special advertising rates for ACA camps.