https://www.acacamps.org/about/annual-report/2023-annual-impact-report

This was a year to reconfirm that camp as a socially enriching, experiential environment plays a significant role in helping today’s youth and future leaders thrive — and a great time to focus on...

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/2024-july-august-camping-magazine

View the digital issue. Featured Articles...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/using-chatgpt-camp

Over the past decade, registration forms, staff applications, and customer relationship management have increasingly moved online. As technology advances, it provides numerous opportunities to...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/monitoring-health-threat-lurking-bright-sunny-days

When I served as a camp director for a mid-sized summer camp in east-central Nebraska, weather ranked among my greatest concerns for camper and staff safety. In the middle of the country, we saw some...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/innovation-work-2024-eleanor-p-eells-award-winners

Each year, ACA’s Eleanor P. Eells Award for Program Excellence honors camps that embody the spirit of the award’s namesake through their efforts to provide exceptional programming that effectively...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camping-healthier-climate

Thinking about the impacts of climate change can make us feel helpless, scared, overwhelmed, and despondent. Many of our camps’ campers share those thoughts and think humanity is beyond hope. But the...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/new-geographic-demographic-day-camps-hiring-staff-outside-your-area-code

If you’re responsible for hiring staff to work at day camp, you may be summing up today’s to-do list in one short phrase: Find more people! Far from being the second choice for those who don’t...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camp-robin-hood-goes-green

Situated on 180 breathtaking acres in the shadows of New Hampshire’s White Mountain National Forest, Camp Robin Hood (CRH) works hard to instill in campers, counselors, and staff alike kindness and a...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/reimagining-faith-based-family-camp-model-family-togetherness

The Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia were settled by strong and resilient families. In Nelson County many families were in these mountains long before a local government was established in 1807....

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/nurturing-innovation-camp

If you look at history, innovation doesn’t come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect. — Steven Johnson, scientist and author of...