Business Management

Whether you plan to be at your camp for another 2, 5, 10, or 20 years, it’s not too early to start your camp’s succession planning. Camps are unique businesses that closely reflect...

Enjoy one of camp’s sweetest sounds as you walk up on a dining hall or an evening campfire and hear a chorus of voices singing a favorite camp song — 100 campers, 250 campers, 500...

My story as a camp professional is classic. I spent a summer after college as a canoe trip leader at a camp in northern Wisconsin, expecting that it was going to be a no-big-deal...

These are the findings from the 2023 Trends and Issues Pulse Survey taken this spring.

CampCounts 2022 is the latest iteration of ACA’s annual business and industry research survey, which aims to support camp professionals in their operational decision-making and to support ACA’s advocacy efforts.

Delegation can make you effective or lazy, so, as a camp director, what are the things you should never delegate? The Mission Others should be in the room when you’re figuring out...

A traditional and well-conceived master planning process allows you to leverage your facility to provide exceptional programs and avoid critical errors in terms of building placement, cost, and timeline.

As industry and societal expectations push for updated facilities, in-depth programming, equitably paid summer staff, and larger year-round teams to make it all happen, camps face...

The survey asked questions about enrollment and campers, camp staff, and budget and operations.