Applying Lessons Learned from For-Profit Camps, Dec 4-5, 2005

Grinspoon Institute camps and “friends” spent an invigorating weekend at our December 4-5 conference at the Springfield (MA) Jewish Community Center. Lead organizers, working closely with Institute mentors and staff, were Skip Vichness, founder and owner of many successful overnight camps, and Jerry Silverman, Executive Director of the Foundation for Jewish Camping. Other guest panelists included Keith Klein of Camp Laurel, Len Robinson of the New Jersey Y Camps, David Phillips of Capital Camps, and Jay Jacobs of Timber Lake Camp. All are prominent figures in camping.

They shared their insights with over one hundred participants at the 2-day event, offering workshops on marketing, leadership, and program excellence. Camp executive directors and lay leaders attending the conference had ample time to network and received one-on-one attention from Institute mentors.

At the conference the Institute introduced its new grant program, Meet Your Match. Please click here for more information on this program.

Scroll down for pictures of attendees and presenters from the event.

Grinspoon Institute Director, Sue Kline, with HGF Executive Director Joanna Ballantine, and Insitute Mentor Lauren Brownstein

Sally Rosenfield of Camp Ramah New England wins one of Harold Grinspoon's prized money bags

Harold Grinspoon and Yehudah Potok of Camp Yavneh

 

Rina Goldberg of the Foundation for Jewish Camping and David Nerenberg of Camp JRF