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https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/tried-true-hard-do-advancing-camps-original-mission-requires-better-precision-not-better-packaging
Tried and True . . . and Hard to Do: Advancing Camp’s Original Mission Requires Better Precision, Not Better PackagingBelievers in organized youth camping regularly flirt with ways to repackage the experience. Although many feel this market-driven approach is necessary to boost registration, it causes mission...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/girls-leadership
Girls and LeadershipIn this interview, auther Rachel Simmons speaks to Camping Magazine about creating intentional camp experiences centered on relationship building, asserting oneself, and taking risks.
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/writing-letter-reference
Writing a Letter of ReferenceOne of the challenges of working at a summer camp is communicating to the outside world what it means to work at a summer camp. When we were young camp counselors, my dear friend Brienne carefully...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/20-20-toolbox-reaching-campers-latino-communities
20/20 Toolbox: Reaching Campers from Latino CommunitiesAs the face of America continues to evolve with greater diversity, many camp directors search for ways to reach communities that might not yet be familiar with the camp experience. While every child...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/20-20-toolbox-focus-future-win-win-organization
20/20 Toolbox: Focus For a Future — A Win/Win OrganizationA 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
Is There Anything I Can Do to 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/what-i-did-my-summer-vacation
What I Did on My Summer VacationIf you were looking for me in the middle of August, you wouldn’t have had a banana’s chance at a gorilla convention of finding me. I was incommunicado, far beyond any cell phone reception or Internet...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/sos-youth-risk-seven-survival-skills-summer-camp
SOS: Youth at Risk and Seven Survival Skills from Summer CampOur Nation is at risk. At least that was the opening salvo of an April 1983 report from the National Commission on Excellence in Education. The document, which covered everything from prosperity...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/trenches-weeds
In the Trenches: In the WeedsAt first I didn't see the call. It came to my cell phone from an unfamiliar number at 6:30 one morning in late July. I had been driving since 5:30 on my way to a camp where I was going to be...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/leading-tomorrow
Leading for TomorrowIt was the first night. Somewhere in the middle of the wilderness in the intermountain west, I lay in a tent with two other teenagers tossing and turning next to me. In tents around us...