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Camping Magazine
20/20 Toolbox: Focus For a Future — A Win/Win Organization
November 1, 2013
A 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...
20/20 Toolbox: Reaching Campers from Latino Communities
November 1, 2013
As 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...
Writing a Letter of Reference
November 1, 2013
One 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...
Girls and Leadership
November 1, 2013
In this interview, auther Rachel Simmons speaks to Camping Magazine about creating intentional camp experiences centered on relationship building, asserting oneself, and taking risks.
Tried and True . . . and Hard to Do: Advancing Camp’s Original Mission Requires Better Precision, Not Better Packaging
November 1, 2013
Believers 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...
Ready, Set, Go: How Camp Prepares Children for Lives of Success
November 1, 2013
The middle and high school years are filled with challenges, change, and promise. Perhaps more than anything else, parents hope that their children will be prepared to be...
Risk Management — OSHA: Baseline Compliance for Camps
November 1, 2013
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has regulations that pertain to employee safety and health on the job. Occasionally, the popular press contains news of a...
Building Principles: Hunting on Camp Property
November 1, 2013
You well know the liability associated with having guests on your site. Most times, invited guests have expectations about what their experience will entail and the level of risk...
Research — Parents’ Perspectives on Resident Camp Experiences: Dimensions that Predict Retention, Word-of-Mouth Marketing, and Satisfaction
November 1, 2013
A primary challenge for any business is recruiting and maintaining customers. In 2012, 27.2 percent of camps surveyed reported camper enrollment that was lower or at its lowest...
In the Trenches — Telephone Roulette: When to Call Parents!
November 1, 2013
Dear Bob, Camps are in full swing now and I need some advice. We have had an incident where one young man grabbed another younger boy by the neck leaving a mark. I don’t know if it...
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