Budget Planning
2024–2027 Leadership Pathways Project
Up to 20 grant recipients will receive up to $18,000 per year for three years to support creating, improving, or expanding counselor-in-training or similar leadership development programs at camp. Grantees will work with a peer cohort to design, implement, and improve a counselor-in-training (CIT)-related initiative to increase access to camp leadership pathways for young people of diverse backgrounds, abilities, and identities.
All nonprofit camps and government agency organizations (i.e. parks & rec) that run camps were invited to apply during the application window that closed on April 11. They did not need to have a grant writer to submit, nor did the camp need to be ACA accredited. Applying to (or receiving) this grant does not disqualify camps from future grant opportunities through ACA.
The application deadline was April 11, 2024.
Phase 2 Awarded Grantees
We are pleased to announce our awarded grantees for Phase 2 (2024-2027)!
- Acta Non Verba: Youth Urban Farm Project - Camp ANV (California)
- B'nai B'rith Camp, LLC / B'nai B'rith Men's Camp Association - BB Camp (Oregon)
- Boys & Girls Club of San Francisco - Camp Mendocino (California)
- Butler Community Arts School - Butler Community Arts School (Indiana)
- Camp Fire Alaska - Camp K on Kenai Lake (Alaska)
- Camp for All Kids - Four Star Fellowship Program (Wisconsin)
- Camp Hazen YMCA (Connecticut)
- Easterseals Central Illinois - Timber Pointe Outdoor Center (Illinois)
- Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta - Camp Meriwether and Camp Misty Mountain (Georgia)
- Happiness Is Camping (New Jersey)
- Live Oak Wilderness Camp (Mississippi, serving New Orleans youth)
- Maven Youth - LGBT+ Youth Summer Tech Camp (Texas)
- No Limits Foundation - Camp No Limits (Maine)
- Piers Park Sailing Center - Future Leaders Summer Camp (Massachusetts)
- The Barbara C. Harris Camp and Conference Center (New Hampshire)
- The Fresh Air Fund (New York)
- The H.E.A.R.T. Center (Arizona)
- The TVRC Education Foundation, Inc - Teton Valley Ranch Camp (Wyoming)
- University of Montana spectrUM Discovery Area - spectrUM Science Camps (Montana)
- Wa-Ya Outdoor Institute - Camp Wa-Ya (Washington)
- YWCA VT Camp Hochelaga (Vermont)
Read the press release.
Previous Phase 1 Awarded Grantees
Here are the awarded grantees from Phase 1 (2021-2024)
- Camp Common Ground
- Big Sur Land Trust Youth Outdoor Programs
- Tampa YMCA
- Camp Blodgett
- Aspire
- Trail Blazers
- Camp Santa Maria
- Montgomery County Recreation
- NatureBridge
- YMCA of Greater Seattle
- Camp Bovey
- Camp Mendocino
- Easterseals Colorado
- 4-H Primitive Pursuits
- Sherwood Forest
- Timber Pointe Outdoor Center
- Camp Kaufmann
- Camp Mokule’ia
- Lexington Recreation and Community Programs
- Acta Non Verba
- PARI Summer Space Camps
This project is made possible through the generous support of Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies.
ACA Group Purchasing with Trinity/HPSI
Zero Cost / No Obligation Membership in Trinity/HPSI enables you to take advantage of the huge buying power of several thousand members across the United States. There is no obligation! You decide which vendor agreements are helpful and use them at your discretion. Participating ACA camps that are already using the Trinity/HPSI group purchasing program collectively save millions every year!
Foodservice is the largest purchase category for most camps and thus presents the largest potential savings opportunity. Choose from Trinity/HPSI agreements with Sysco, US Foods, Gordon Food Service, Shamrock Foods, Ben E. Keith, PFG/Reinhart, Martin Brothers, Feesers, SGC Foodservice, Upper Lakes, Cheney Brothers, Merchants Foodservice, Harbor Wholesale, and Cash-Wa Distributing. Most Trinity/HPSI members experience annual savings of 10% to 20%. For a complimentary analysis of your camp’s foodservice savings opportunity, contact Travis Claypool at 615-672-0229 or [email protected].
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As an ACA/Trinity/HPSI member, you will also be able to save on purchases from great companies like Lowe’s, Staples, Office Depot, John Deere, Pepsi, Sherwin-Williams, Leslie’s Pool Supplies, FedEx, T-Mobile, Ecolab, Network Services, Waxie, HD Pro Institutional, HD Supply, Direct Supply, Guest Supply, Grainger, The Original Mattress Factory, Farmer Brothers, Cushman/EZ-GO, NE Camp Discounter, R&W Rope and many more!
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