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Camping Magazine
To Be a Great Camp Counselor, Act Like One!
May 1, 2015
You’re the head of baseball and softball at a prestigious summer camp in New England. It’s week four of the seven-week session and one of your counselors, Jason, is still...
Essential Communication Requirements of Caretakers
May 1, 2015
Counselors, other camp staff, volunteers, parents, guardians, and friends of camps join camp directors as partners in the responsibility of caring for other people’s children. How...
Developing a Business Plan for Your Camp
March 1, 2015
Whether you are just starting a camp, looking for new investors in your operation, or looking for a loan to improve facilities at an existing camp, a well-thought-out business plan...
Getting Social With It
March 1, 2015
It is said, even among the youngest of audiences, that if you are not on social media you don’t exist. Think about it: You may have already researched my credentials on LinkedIn®...
Making it Up: Improv Comedy and Camp
September 1, 2014
"I moved to Chicago in the early 1990s and I studied improvisation there. I learned some rules that I try to apply still today. Listen, say yes, live in the moment, make sure you...
Leading for Tomorrow
July 1, 2015
It 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...
In the Trenches: In the Weeds
November 1, 2014
At 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...
SOS: Youth at Risk and Seven Survival Skills from Summer Camp
September 1, 2015
Our 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...
What I Did on My Summer Vacation
November 1, 2013
If 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...
Is There Anything I Can Do to Help?
July 1, 2013
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...
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