https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/experiential-classroom-camp

As a camp professional, I, like you, have literally thousands of affirming anecdotal stories — the camp experience is not discretionary. And, if anyone needs more evidence, ACA's outcomes research...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/tish-january-2015

It's the start of another year and a year's worth of opportunities to make a positive impact on our nation's children and young adults through the experience of camp. The American Camp Association (...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camper-wellness-different-perspective

Meet Ben. He was a regular kid who did OK in school, had his fair share of friends— some more friendly than others— came from a single-parent home, didn’t have money to burn but certainly had all the...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/marketing-matters-parent-perspective

Marketing your camp often involves communicating with parents who are not experts at the selection process. In many cases, you are presenting your camp’s story to people who have never before made...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/realizing-unprecedented-success-tools-optimizing-your-plan

Working Your Plan After outlining the basic elements of a strategic plan and discussing a process that engages your key stakeholder groups, we now concentrate on...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/basic-steps-strategic-planning

Someone reminded me recently that "it wasn't raining when Noah built the Ark!" At a time when management gurus echo the phrase, "out of crisis comes opportunity," it is indeed refreshing to...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/other-side-mountain-views-organized-camp-2012

Despite my more than forty years in organized camping, I have scant experience in the other kind. In fact, one of my few forays into the world of site camping — accompanied by a long-time camp friend...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camp-educator-lessons-learned-history

By the time Charles W. Eliot, former president of Harvard University, reportedly claimed in 1922, “the organized summer camp is the most important step in education that America has given the world...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/environmental-impairment-risk

Our world is fragile and so are we! Could we have a starker reminder of this than the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year? There are many lessons which...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/place-share-global-giving

Giving has always been a critical lesson that we teach campers and staff as part of the camp experience. Living and learning together, campers must give respect to their peers and camp staff. In...