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Program Planning
Community Parks Revitalization Act
October 10, 2015
Overview The Community Parks Revitalization Act will provide matching federal grants for much needed parks and recreation infrastructure. Specifically, the bill would authorize the...
National Military Family Association - Operation Purple Camps
Fri, 10/09/2015 - 22:12
Camps and Operation Purple for Military Families
October 9, 2015
As funding has been cut to support the children of military families, the opportunities for your camp to support those children through the National Military Family Association's...
Children and Nature Belong Together
October 6, 2015
How Camp Teaches Kids to Think Green! Camp programs are among the very best ways for children to learn a lasting appreciation for nature and a lifelong interest in caring for the...
American Red Cross
Fri, 10/02/2015 - 10:04
Designing Your Programs to Best Enhance the Camp Experience
October 2, 2015
Top Tips for Camps Intentionally select program activities that provide one or more of the youth-development supports (supportive relationships, safety, youth involvement, skill...
Turning Camp Counselors into Nature Specialists: The Pemi Nature Instruction Clinic
March 1, 2014
Introduction Richard Louv, in his book Last Child in the Woods , “links the absence of nature in the lives of today’s wired generation to some of the most disturbing childhood...
An Interview with Richard Louv: Using the Nature Principle and Camps to Reduce Nature-Deficit Disorder — for Children and Adults
January 1, 2012
What progress have you seen in the movement to connect children and nature since you wrote Last Child in the Woods in 2005? Last Child didn’t create the children and nature...
Farm to Dining Hall: A Camp Farm Program with a Long History
September 1, 2015
In 1890, the folks who built the water powered grist mill just off Carson Creek, outside Brevard, North Carolina, never envisioned that one day the property surrounding the mill...
Camp Songs — History and Traditions
July 1, 2010
Harriet Lowe, editor of Camping Magazine , and Rita Yerkes, historical series editor, were kind enough to invite me to write about the history and traditions of camp songs. However...
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