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/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...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/best-program-innovation-2012-eleanor-eells-winners

“Better Camping for All.” It’s not just a long-time slogan of members of the American Camp Association; it’s a call to action. As we strive to embody this phrase and create excellence in programming...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/building-principles-keeping-code

“First of all, Miss Turner, returning you to shore was never part of our agreement. Second, you are not a pirate, so the Pirate’s Code does not apply. And third, the Pirate’s Code is more of a set of...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/peg-are-we-capable-courageous-conversations

“Success of an organization is measured in terms of its contribution to society.” — Viljoen, 1944 At the 2006 ACA National Conference, the 20/20 Vision was launched. At that moment in...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/building-principles-ins-outs-pipe

“Appearances can be deceiving.” This old expression is as true today as it was when it was coined. In fact, things that look very simple or most ordinary can be much more complex than we ever...

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/no-greater-investment-changing-lives-one-one

I would like to tell you a story about what it means to be a “finder” and a “funder.” At 12:00 p.m. the bell would ring to signal the start of my freshman world history class. John, Sam, and Tim...