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Camp Marketing and Promotion:

• Marketing Madness! The Essential Marketing ToolBook for Summer Programs
  Packed full of great ideas and techniques to help you use creativity instead of cash to generate high impact marketing results for your program. Perfect for anyone involved in running and marketing a summer, after-school, enrichment, recreational or educational program for children. Schools, camps, community centers, museums and other organizations will find the information extremely useful.

Camp Programming

• Program Madness! The Essential Revenue Generating ToolBook for AfterSchool, Summer & Year Round Children's Programs
  "Program Madness! The Essential Revenue Generating ToolBook for AfterSchool, Summer and Year Round Children's Programs," features exciting ways to build your revenue source! This is a valuable resource for anyone involved in children's programming. And, let's face it all institutions need to find new sources of revenue and that's just what this book shows you how to do. In this book you will discover: *Tons of original & innovative classes & plans for your program *The six key steps to take right now to make your program a success *The important 3 F's to incorporate into your program (you'll be amazed at what a difference it will make!) *How to build and maintain a great program And, so much more! You'll love and treasure the valuable RESOURCE sections, sample LESSON PLANS, activities, class overviews and class descriptions.
• Total Coaches Guide to Running a Summer Sports Day Camp
  Helpful guide to starting up and running a successful sports day camp - for coaches, teachers, camp owners.

Staffing and Hiring

• Training Terrific Staff!: A Handbook of Practical & Creative Tools for Camps
  "An outstanding resource for staff training! I used segments of this book as a camp director of a Boy Scout summer camp. This was enormously useful, practical, and insightful. I have also had the opportunity to see Michael Brandwein train on how to do training. He knows what he is talking about, and has condensed a great deal of wisdom in this book. If you are serious about training and energizing your staff, this is a must have book." Chris Meirose
  
  "This book is a great all in one package deal for any camp director, staff supervisor, or anyone in a leadership position at a camp. it provides ready to use programs, and ideas that are so simple, yet elegant. I highly recommended this book be one of the sources used when planning for a great staff orientation as well as ongoing training throughout the year. Anyone having heard michael brandwein speak will find this book to reflect the ideas he presents." Another Reader
• The Ultimate Camp Counsellor Manual: How to Survive and Succeed Magnificently at Summer Camp
  "My first summer at camp was in 1998 and I was really nervous as I did not know what to expect from this new experience. I took this book with me when I went and found it to be an excellent reference in which I used all summer. Three years later, I still work at a summer camp and still find things in this book that are helpful." A Camp Staffer
  
  This is a great resource for any summer camp. As a member of a camp's central staff I found this book to be an incredible resource for me as well as the many staff members that are working at the camp. This book really covers all aspects of summer camps, and should be used by all to ensure the campers of a great summer.... a must for every camp director A Former Camp Staffer
• The Evaluation Interview : How to Probe Deeply, Get Candid Answers, and Predict the Performance of Job Candidates
  The Evaluation Interview has been the essential interviewer's guidebook for more than 40 years. Its hands-on techniques and interviewing insights are renowned for helping hiring managers and personnel interviewers put applicants at ease and reveal their true character. This revised and updated fifth edition, is tailored to the realities of interviewing applicant's in today's workplace with new material covering:
  Tactical interviewing strategies: how to ask "behavioral" questions that leave interviewees no wiggle room
  Legal issues: Questions you cannot ask in an interview
  Overall "fit": Evaluating candidates for how well they fit into your organization's culture and strategic priorities
• Verify Employment Records (Article)

Activities and Instruction

• Teaching Riding at Summer Camps
  This primer is a must for new riding instructors at summer camp programs. Seasoned pros might learn a thing or two as well!
• Kids Camp!: Activities for the Backyard or Wilderness
  From School Library Journal
  Grade 3-6?A good guide to outdoor adventures for inexperienced young campers and their families. The authors believe in the importance of having a hands-on relationship with nature while maintaining a healthy respect for it, and stress safety precautions and preparation. The chapters feature directions for making inexpensive equipment and projects while exploring nature; crafts; outdoor games; and recipes for snacks and meals. The large pages are illustrated with black-line drawings and diagrams placed alongside detailed instructions and, often, special boxes with helpful "stay safe" and "nature note" tips. There is an error in the bowline-knot diagram and there is no mention of the need for reservations in many state and national parks. Other than these minor flaws, the book will prevent the uninitiated from making the numerous little mistakes that can become annoying and even dangerous.
• The Kids' Nature Book: 365 Indoor/Outdoor Activities and Experiences (Williamson Kids Can! Series)
  From School Library Journal
  Grade 1 Up-- In a straightforward, common-sense fashion and approach , Milord presents the world of nature in daily increments. A project or activity is offered for each day of the year, and each week is given a theme around which the projects focus. Some of the activities are simple events that could take place in the home (e.g. preparations for a nature display area, or reading a story or poem which ties in with the week's events). Other activities require visits to parks, beaches, or other outdoor areas. And still other activities can be successfully completed in one's backyard. The initial section includes information on how to use the book, how to respect the wildlife which is being observed, and preparations which should either be taken or made in order to properly observe and work with nature. A book filled with creative activities, but one that is best used with adult help because of the difficult reading level, insufficient number of illustrations, and very small print.

Group dynamics and how kids behave

• Behavior modification in children: case studies and illustrations from a summer camp
  See what worked and what didn't in this actual scientific study of children's behavior at camp
• Children in groups: psychology and the summer camp
  Fascinating discussion of group dynamics at camp

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