https://www.acacamps.org/donate/donor-advised-funds

Simplify your giving. A donor advised fund, which is like a charitable savings account, gives you the flexibility to recommend how much and how often money is granted to ACA and other qualified...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/launch-your-virtual-camp-2-weeks-or-less-without-spending-time-money-tech

This year camps face a difficult challenge: how do you bring kids together while keeping them safe? 

https://www.acacamps.org/news/press-release/american-camp-association-vice-president-mike-pence-talk-summer-camp

Camp directors and operators from across the country joined the call to discuss the approach to safely and responsibly reopening summer camps amid COVID-19.   Martinsville,...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/who-has-access-who-does-not-how-camps-are-thinking-about-access-equity-virtual-programming

One might call the shift to virtual camp programming a silver lining of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is not likely we would have widely considered camp and virtual programming prior to the pandemic, but...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/role-mandated-reporters-virtual-youth-programming

Protecting children is everyone’s responsibility. Anyone who has a reasonable cause to suspect that a child is being abused must report that suspicion. This even includes when we are interacting with...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/aca-hotline-taking-stock-striking-realistic-balance

The Fall 2019 issue of CampLine included a summary of the year’s Hotline calls. The American Camp Association (ACA) categorized the year’s calls into various areas. They found a full 65...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/camp-insurance-trends-social-inflation-hard-insurance-market

For more than 20 years, the American Camp Association (ACA) Insurance Committee has held an annual roundtable with many of the camp industry insurers and brokers in conjunction with the ACA National...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/parent-communications-considerations-when-camp-does-open

As communities in a number of states begin to open up, state-by-state conversations are being held about if, how, and when camps can open. Provided your state/local public health authority makes a...

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/marketing-communications-covid-19

Parents and staff are naturally going to be concerned, particularly with the constant media coverage of coronavirus, so you must communicate openly and often with them. 

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/mourning-summer-2020-how-communicate-camp-closings-your-community

At the end of last summer, most camp directors were already thinking about summer 2020. That’s because most camp directors I know are problem-solvers, and whatever might not have gone so smoothly in...