Host conferences on high impact topics:

The Grinspoon Institute’s 7th Camp Conference
(November 2008):  Click here for more information.
View Conference Resource here.

Spotlight on Jewish Camping:  Fundraising, Board Development and Strategic Planning
(November 2007):  Click here for more details.

Linking Past and Future
(December 2006):  Click here for more details.

Target Excellence:
Applying Lessons Learned From For-Profit Camps
(December 2005): Skip Vichness, founder and owner of successful nonprofit camps, has assembled leading camp personnel in both the profit and nonprofit words to share experiences in leadership, marketing and program excellence.

Fundraising: Approaches That Work
(April 2005): A panel of experts opened the conference with a discussion of development challenges facing nonprofits in general and camps in particular in today’s competitive fundraising environment. Jonathan Cohen of the Cohen camps, a participant in the Grinspoon Institute’s technology pilot study, led a presentation about using technology to enhance the work of fundraising. Participants engaged in role-playing to solicit gifts and began the hands-on work of developing fundraising plans.

Role of Executive Director and Lay Leaders
(November 2004): Participants identified top challenges of fundraising, alumni outreach, and long-term planning.

Discussion topics:

• Innovative and tried-and-true means for connecting with camp constituencies
   
• Creating a productive relationship between executive director and board chair
   
• Performance management and leadership coaching.