https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/place-share-exploring-magic-summer-camp

Though the summers of my adulthood bear little resemblance to those of my youth, the season retains the alluring aura of possibility that accompanied it throughout those earlier years. Even when...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/research-parents-perspectives-resident-camp-experiences-dimensions-predict-retention-word-mouth

A primary challenge for any business is recruiting and maintaining customers. In 2012, 27.2 percent of camps surveyed reported camper enrollment that was lower or at its lowest point compared to the...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/building-principles-hunting-camp-property

You well know the liability associated with having guests on your site. Most times, invited guests have expectations about what their experience will entail and the level of risk they intend to...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/tried-true-hard-do-advancing-camps-original-mission-requires-better-precision-not-better-packaging

Believers in organized youth camping regularly flirt with ways to repackage the experience. Although many feel this market-driven approach is necessary to boost registration, it causes mission...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/20-20-toolbox-reaching-campers-latino-communities

As the face of America continues to evolve with greater diversity, many camp directors search for ways to reach communities that might not yet be familiar with the camp experience. While every child...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/20-20-toolbox-focus-future-win-win-organization

A Humble Beginning Camp owners are thrilled, educators are motivated, and economically disadvantaged children are positively changed forever. Focus For a Future began with a very simple concept...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/there-anything-i-can-do-help

As camp professionals, we hear many stories about the impact of our camps on the lives of our participants. Often, when these alums come back and share a story or two with us from the past, they...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/what-i-did-my-summer-vacation

If you were looking for me in the middle of August, you wouldn’t have had a banana’s chance at a gorilla convention of finding me. I was incommunicado, far beyond any cell phone reception or Internet...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/mini-camp-taste-sleep-away-camp

In the early 2000s, at one of ACA’s national conferences, Bonnie and Sam Dawson were discussing with several other camp directors ways of improving programs and increasing enrollment at Camp...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/20-20-toolbox-hybrid-summer-camp-program-rethinks-family-engagement

The Boston Nature Center (BNC), an urban Mass Audubon sanctuary, offers public programs year-round. Located in the Boston neighborhood of Mattapan, two miles of trails and boardwalks traverse meadows...