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https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/taking-big-step-buying-selling-camp
Taking the Big Step: Buying and Selling CampOver the past 20 years, we’ve been asked often to help buyers and sellers of camps in transition. With very few exceptions in the industry, most will only buy and sell one time in their career, so...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/crisis-management
Crisis ManagementMerriam Webster dictionary defines a crisis as "an unstable or crucial time or state of affairs in which a decisive change is impending; especially: one with the distinct possibility of a highly...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/welcome-digital-cabin-how-new-technologies-can-deliver-better-summer-experience
Welcome to the Digital Cabin: How New Technologies Can Deliver a Better Summer ExperienceTechnology and camping? Hearing those two words together often sparks ire among camp management. “We don’t allow our kids to use techie toys!” you declare. Of course, unless you run a computer camp,...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/can-i-have-another-bowl-cereal-using-summer-food-service-program-your-camp
Can I Have Another Bowl of Cereal? Using the Summer Food Service Program at Your Camp“Can I have another bowl of cereal?” The shy boy was one that regularly asked for seconds at breakfast, and I suspected he didn’t eat dinner regularly at his house. He was a camper at my small...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/camp-contracting-service-providers-bigger-picture
Camp Contracting with Service Providers: The Bigger PictureI. Introduction As part of a camp’s offerings to campers, camp services include those provided by others, outside the camp’s direct employees or volunteers. The American Camp Association (ACA)...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/reasonable-supervision-safe-environment-what-are-issues
Reasonable Supervision and the "Safe" Environment: What Are the Issues?Message From the American Camp Association Kids want action! Excitement! Cool activities! New stuff! Parents want safety. They want kids to have fun, but they also expect you to deliver EVERYTHING...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/grounding-our-character-work-reflection
Grounding Our Character Work in ReflectionCan you identify the difference between these two common scenarios? In the first, you are enjoying a scenic picnic lunch with campers after a long and exhausting hike together. In the second, you...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/seven-emerging-issues-todays-camps-face
Seven Emerging Issues Today's Camps FaceResults of the 2017 Emerging Issues Survey are in and suggest that camps face a variety of challenges, such as staff and camper health, staff training, parent communication, diversity, revenue...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/reaching-out-building-relationships-engaging-underserved-populations-camp-experience
Reaching Out: Building Relationships and Engaging Underserved Populations in the Camp ExperienceCathy’s story: “He looks like me but he sure don’t talk like me” was the comment I heard from an 11-year-old camper as he described his counselor who was black but from South Africa...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/how-do-you-spur-culture-change-camp
How Do You Spur Culture Change at Camp?If you’re noticing something that could use a change, there’s a good chance that others are too.