Camping Magazine

Strategic thinking can’t possibly be for frontline camp staff — or can it? That level of decision-making is historically reserved for owners, directors, and senior management to...

Camp’s bells and whistles are great — vivid T-shirts, goofy chants, s’mores by the fire. But what really makes camp life so powerful are the human connections. Your staff have the...

Time flies and it will be summer before we know it. Each spring is filled with camp pros exclaiming, “I can’t believe it’s already April!” Now is the moment to create a...

“What do you do the rest of the year?” Most year-round camp professionals have heard this question. And most have rolled their eyes at it. A look behind the scenes at the realities...

“A leader’s job is not to do the work for others, it’s to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done, and to succeed beyond what they thought possible”...

This past July, I had an inspiring conversation with Buggi, an assistant director at Liberty Lake Day Camp. Buggi and I have often talked about leadership development, performance...

Belonging is a concept that has long been held as a solution for redressing the exclusion of diverse people. On the surface, this concept makes sense. The assumption is that if all...

An interview with nonprofit Brooklyn to Alaska.

As summer camp professionals, we’ve all experienced those unexpected moments when a camper or staff member raises a comment or question that catches us off guard. It could be...

“A society grows great when elders plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit.” — Greek Proverb. Growing up, my family always said it takes a village to raise a child, and it...