The Summer Camp Society Blog
Partnering with Staff Families at Camp
Explores strategies for building relationships with staff families, which can lead to smoother camp operations, better staff retention, and more advocates for camp.
10 Easy Social Media Campaigns Camps Can Do This Summer
Practical ideas for summer camps to maintain a strong social media presence, from staff highlights to camper quotes, ensuring ongoing engagement during the busy season
Starting a Monthly Giving Program For Summer Camp
Shares how Stomping Ground created a successful monthly donors club, raising $35k annually while engaging alumni and fostering camp community support.
7 Things You Can Do Now to Wrap Up Your Summer & Make Your Life Easier
Offers tips for post-camp reflection and organizing tasks, including year-round engagement planning, important date communication, and sorting photos for future use.
From Post-Camp Reflections to Action Plan: Making It Happen
5 Types of Snacks to Reenergize Your Staff
Emergency Hiring Strategies
Beyond the Pizza Party: Incentives to Improve Staff Quality of Life
THE PAST 12 MONTHS
Are We Thinking Too Small About How to Recruit More and Different Staff for Camp?
“What do you do the rest of the year?”
How can our camp generate income now when we don’t know what summer is going to look like yet?
Unless we can ensure that each of us is safe at camp, we all have to stay home.
Covid-19 - Three Projects We Are Working On At Stomping Ground
Camp Kiko Crisis Challenge: A Simulation Activity for Camp Leaders
For this reason, I have developed a new simulation activity that camp leaders can use for an in-service training: The Camp Kiko Crisis Challenge. In this challenge, you will pretend you run a camp where four campers have gone missing on a field trip. Allegations of drug use swirl and transportation to the field trip location (a remote island) make things even worse. What will you do in the face of these issues? Test your skills by trying out our new exercise
Five Under-Utilized Strategies to use During a Camp Crisis
Here are the top four underutilized tactics I have learned from our CampMinder Crisis Challenges that are essential during any sort of camp emergency that unfolds over time