CampBuzz directory

Vendors covered by CampBuzz

Directory of the vendors featured in CampBuzz editorial coverage. Each profile is structured for AI-readable discovery and indexed for buyers researching the camp industry.

141 organizations

A-G Specialty Insurance

Insurance

A-G Specialty Insurance (formerly A-G Administrators) is a 40-year specialist in accident and liability coverage for camps, sports clinics, tournaments, and special events, with deep roots insuring school districts and NCAA programs. Its camp coverage spans general and special-event liability, participant accident-medical, abuse/molestation, and equipment, for day, overnight, and multi-day camps. Its 2024 acquisition of eSportsInsurance added property-and-casualty coverage for one-stop camp programs.

AccuDock

Aquatics & Waterfront

AccuDock is a U.S. manufacturer of customizable floating docks for camps, parks, and waterfronts, based in Pompano Beach, Florida. Its modular, marine-grade systems can be built to ADA-compliance standards with low-profile designs and anti-slip surfaces for safe swimming and water-sports access. The docks are engineered for durability, easy installation, and eco-friendly materials suited to lakes, rivers, and coastal settings.

ACTIVE Network (Camp & Class Manager)

Camp Management Software

ACTIVE Network is a large activity and participant management SaaS company headquartered in Dallas, whose ACTIVEWorks Camp & Class Manager handles registration, payments, attendance, and marketing for camps, classes, and programs. Founded in San Diego in 1999, it grew through dozens of acquisitions before being taken private by Vista Equity Partners in 2013 and acquired by payments giant Global Payments in 2017. It is among the largest and most acquisitive players touching the camp registration market.

Activity Messenger

Camp Management Software

Activity Messenger is a mobile-first camp and activity management platform that combines registration, payments, digital waivers, email/SMS, and attendance tracking in one tool, with a flexible form builder. Built by founders frustrated by clunky legacy systems, it targets smaller and mid-sized camps and recreation organizations wanting minimal staff training and heavy automation. It positions itself as a lighter, modern alternative to enterprise platforms.

ActivityHero

Marketing

ActivityHero is a marketplace and registration platform built for kids-activity providers to sell camps and classes to families nationwide, pairing provider software with a consumer-facing discovery marketplace. Providers can publish camps risk-free on a performance-based marketing plan, while families search by age, category, and location and register across multiple programs. Its marketing engine (paid search, social, and a large family newsletter) drives registrations on top of its SuperHero registration software.

Alpine Towers International

Challenge Course Construction

Alpine Towers International designs, builds, inspects, and maintains challenge courses and climbing structures for camps, schools, and wellness facilities, and is known for its signature Alpine Tower climbing structure. Based in Asheville, North Carolina, it offers full-service support including practitioner certification, staff training, refurbishment, and third-party program assessments. Its designs meet or exceed ACCT and Climbing Wall Industry Group standards.

American Camp Co.

Staffing & Recruiting

American Camp Co. is a summer camp staffing brand focused specifically on direct placements, created by Smaller Earth and Cenet with roughly five decades of combined J-1 visa experience. It positions itself on price transparency and feeds applicants who haven't secured a direct placement into the related Camp Leaders program. It operates within the same group as Camp Leaders.

Amilia

Recreation & Registration Software

Amilia is a Montreal-based e-commerce and registration platform for activities and recreation, founded in 2009, used by parks and recreation departments, YMCAs, community centers, and camps. It combines online registration, payments, scheduling, membership, and facility booking, and uses a transaction-based pricing model (a percentage plus optional flat fee per transaction). Its SmartRec product targets municipalities and recreation organizations running high registration volumes.

AMSkier Insurance

Insurance

AMSkier is the largest direct insurance provider for children's camps in the U.S., a third-generation family business founded by Abram Skier in 1920 and based in Hawley, Pennsylvania. It runs an exclusive worldwide insurance program for camps alongside personal and business lines, paired with safety and risk-management resources through its SAFETYunderwriters initiative. The Skier family is deeply embedded in the camp community, with leadership active in ACA affiliates and camp nonprofits like SCOPE.

Anchor Industries

Facilities & Structures

Anchor Industries is an American manufacturer of tents, fabric structures, shade solutions, pool covers, and awnings serving recreational, commercial, and event markets. Its frame and pole tents, shade structures, and custom pool covers fit camp dining, event, and waterfront needs. The company emphasizes durable, American-made craftsmanship across its structure lines.

ArrowSoft Archery

Activities & Programming

ArrowSoft Archery makes soft-tipped, child-safe archery game equipment built for summer camps, schools, churches, and youth programs. Its aim-assisted bows, foam-tipped arrows, inflatable targets, and safety gear let groups play a low-risk version of archery indoors or out. The Florida-based company markets its sets as a structured, active alternative to screen time for camp and recreation settings.

Blue Ridge Pennant

Apparel & Merchandise

Blue Ridge Pennant makes hand-cut, hand-sewn pennants and felt flags from 100% wool felt, crafted in the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains. It offers in-stock designs as well as custom pennants, and partners with retailers, camps, and events on flexible custom wholesale options. Camp-branded felt pennants serve as souvenirs, cabin decor, and reunion keepsakes.

Bunk1

Marketing & Communications

Bunk1 is a parent-engagement platform for summer camps in the US and Canada, delivered via web and iOS/Android apps. It provides secure camper photo galleries with automated photo tagging, printed camper mail (Bunk Notes) and replies, daily newsletters and updates, and push/SMS notifications. It operates as a Togetherwork brand alongside sister company CircuiTree.

C.C. Creations

Apparel & Merchandise

C.C. Creations is one of the largest custom screen-printing and embroidery companies in the country, founded in 1982 in Bryan, Texas and headquartered in College Station. It offers apparel, promotional products, signs, banners, and trophies across five divisions, including a 210,000 sq ft production campus opened in 2023-2024. Camp is one of several served segments, alongside Greek/collegiate, corporate, and construction, with a dedicated camp buying guide for custom camper apparel.

Camp America

Staffing & Recruiting

Camp America is one of the oldest international camp staffing programs, placing counselors and staff from more than 20 countries at U.S. summer camps since 1969. It operates as part of the American Institute For Foreign Study (AIFS), drawing on AIFS resources for transportation, insurance, and global recruiting offices. The program runs large recruitment fairs, historically in London, and provides year-round camp account support.

Camp Background Checks

Background Screening

Camp Background Checks is a screening provider focused specifically on camps and RV parks, supporting camps across North America since 1994. Its services cover criminal history, sex-offender registry checks, social-media screening, driving records, and customized drug screening, bundled into camp-oriented packages with applicant-pay options. Based in the Kansas City area, it markets fast, paperless, FCRA-compliant screening with live customer support.

Camp Broadway

Activities & Programming

Camp Broadway is a musical-theater enrichment program founded in 1995 and operated by the nonprofit Broadway Education Alliance, recognized as Broadway's original summer camp for theater-loving kids. Beyond its New York programs, it now licenses the turnkey Camp Broadway Collection, partnering with Music Theatre International to give camps authorized, all-inclusive musical productions (Annie, Shrek, Seussical, and more) with scripts, tracks, and rehearsal plans. The collection targets a programming gap at camps that traditionally focus on sports and the outdoors.

Camp Kitchen Pro

Food Service

Camp Kitchen Pro is a cloud-based food-service management platform built specifically for summer camp kitchens, covering recipe management, menu planning, inventory tracking, food production, requisitions, and special-diet handling. Built by people with 10+ years in camp kitchens, it markets average savings of roughly 20 hours per week and $15,000 per season. It is used by camp food-service operators such as Summer Camp Cooks.

Camp Leaders

Staffing & Recruiting

Camp Leaders is one of the largest international summer camp staffing brands, founded in 1999 in Liverpool, England and now part of Smaller Earth Group. It recruits counselors and support staff through on-the-ground offices in roughly a dozen countries and markets an in-house, camp-specific hiring platform with screening, background checks, and visa support. The brand positions its technology and global reach as its main differentiators.

Camp Mattresses To Go

Facilities & Equipment

Camp Mattresses To Go supplies mattresses, bedding, and cots made for camps and other group-living facilities. The company positions its products around durability and camp-appropriate construction, and emphasizes U.S. manufacturing.

Camp Medical Services

Health & Medical

Camp Medical Services is a camp-focused telehealth and medical-support provider that connects camps with physicians for remote evaluation, creating HIPAA-compliant records for campers seen in the clinic. It augments on-site nurses and EMTs rather than replacing them, and offers pre-summer staff training (virtual and in-person), camper medical-form review, and treatment planning for high-risk campers. It is positioned as a way for camps to add physician oversight without transporting campers off-site.

Camp Network

Registration SoftwareBookings· Hampton Roads VA

Camp Network has powered camp registration and management for over 15 years, serving 350+ camps including university programs at Harvard, Yale, FSU, and traditional residential camps across North America. Our platform handles every part of the registration journey: online enrollment, payment processing, parent communications, staff management, and detailed reporting. Built specifically for camps — not adapted from generic event software — Camp Network is trusted by directors who need reliable infrastructure during the busiest weeks of summer. We offer transparent transaction-based pricing with no setup fees, no annual commitments, and dedicated support throughout your season. Whether you run a 50-camper boutique program or a 5,000-camper multi-week operation, Camp Network scales to match how you operate.

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Camp Snap

Photography

Camp Snap makes screen-free digital cameras designed as a modern replacement for disposable cameras, popular for screen-free camp environments where phones aren't allowed. The point-and-shoot cameras require no apps and offer film-like filters; the second-generation model added on-camera filter toggling. They appeal to camps and families wanting kids to capture memories without internet-connected devices.

CampBrain

Camp Management Software

CampBrain provides cloud-based camp management and online registration software for camps and conference/retreat centers, including day, overnight, faith-based, special-needs, school, YMCA/agency, and conference-center settings. Features span registration, payments, health management, staff hiring, attendance, fundraising, and a camp store. Toronto-based, founded 1994.

CampCheckUSA

Background Screening

CampCheckUSA provides background screening for year-round, summer, day, youth, sports, and seasonal camps, with an Applicant Access portal that lets candidates track and download their own reports. It offers no-contract, no-monthly-fee accounts and spreadsheet-based bulk ordering. It appears affiliated with the TopChecked/govbackgroundchecks screening network.

CampDoc

Health & Medical

CampDoc, a product of DocNetwork, is a cloud-based electronic health record platform built specifically for camps and youth programs. It manages health forms, medications, allergies, and illness and injury tracking alongside registration and form collection, with HIPAA, FERPA, and SOC 2 compliance. The platform serves more than 1,250 camps and programs across the U.S. and Canada.

Camper Machine

Marketing

Camper Machine is a digital marketing agency working exclusively with summer camps, focused on filling camps through SEO, paid search, branding, and conversion strategy. It publishes camp-marketing education and engages with the camp-pro community (including Go Camp Pro's podcasts), framing the camp director as a marketing officer. Its camp-only focus differentiates it from general agencies.

Campfront

Camp Management Software

Campfront is a new all-in-one camp management platform built by veterans of Camp Leaders' technology team, applying 25+ years of camp-staffing industry experience to camp operations software. Its feature set spans multi-camp management, activity scheduling, background and social screening, a camper wallet, donations, and a mobile app, with Zapier connectivity to 8,000+ apps. The team frames it as a long-term, employee-owned bet on a better camp management product.

Campium

Camp Management Software

Campium is a Brooklyn, New York-based camp management platform for day camps, sleepaway camps, sports camps, religious camps, and after-school programs. Its software covers online registration, billing and payment plans, attendance, parent communication, custom forms and reporting, and HIPAA-oriented medication tracking. The company emphasizes personal customer support and flexible, toggleable modules.

CampMeds

Health & Medical

CampMeds is a Davie, Florida company that pre-packages campers' medications into individually labeled unit-dose packets organized by dose, day, and time, delivered to camp with Medication Administration Records. The system reduces dosing errors and frees camp health centers from medication logistics, including on off-site trips. It has specialized in summer camps for roughly two decades and accepts most prescription insurance.

Campminder

Camp Management Software· Boulder CO

Campminder is a Boulder, Colorado-based camp management platform built for overnight and day camps. Its software brings registration, health records, staffing, financials, scheduling, and family communication into one system, with a parent-facing mobile app for photos, forms, and payments. Long established in the youth-camp market, the company is also known for a workplace culture that has earned repeated "best places to work" recognition.

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CampSite

Camp Management Software

CampSite is an all-in-one camp management platform for resident and day camps, handling online enrollment, payments, medical information, staff hiring, transportation, alumni tracking, and parent communication. It is offered as 'CampSite by EZFacility,' a division of Jonas Software, which operates within publicly traded Constellation Software. That ownership places CampSite inside one of the largest vertical-market software consolidators in the world.

CampStaff

Staffing

CampStaff (campstaff.com) is a summer-camp-specific job board that connects staff applicants with camps across the US and Canada. It offers a single free application to reach many camps for roles such as counselors, activity/sports staff, nurses, and chefs. Per the company, it launched in 1996 as the first camp-specific jobs site and also runs CampStaffNurses.com.

CampWise

Camp Management Software

CampWise is an all-in-one camp management and registration platform serving resident camps, day camps, and conference centers, with an easy-to-use, mobile-friendly interface. It positions itself as focused specifically on the technology needs of camps and conference centers, covering registration, staff scheduling, inventory, and reporting. It competes directly with the other established camp management systems.

CCUSA

Staffing & Recruiting

CCUSA (Camp Counselors USA) is a designated J-1 visa sponsor that has placed international counselors and support staff at U.S. summer camps since 1986, working with more than 900 camps and recruiting from over 40 countries. It also runs Work Experience USA for seasonal jobs beyond camp and provides participant vetting, monitoring, and travel insurance. The company is headquartered in San Rafael, California.

Challenge Design Innovations (CDI)

Challenge Course Construction

Challenge Design Innovations (CDI) is a family-owned challenge course builder that designs, builds, inspects, trains, and equips ropes courses, adventure parks, zip lines, and climbing walls nationwide, including for summer camps. Founded in 1980 when Jim Wall built his first ropes course and zip line in Sanford, North Carolina, it is now led by his son Corey Wall. With 45+ years in the field, CDI recently acquired Rock Edge Gear, expanding its equipment offerings.

Chalmers Insurance Group

Insurance

Chalmers is a fourth-generation, family-owned independent insurance agency founded in 1857, based in Bridgton, Maine with offices across Maine and New Hampshire. Its dedicated Chalmers Camp Insurance arm works exclusively with summer camp operators on tailored coverage and risk management. It partners with the Redwoods Institute to offer camps nearly 100 complimentary staff safety-training courses.

Church Mutual Insurance

Insurance

Church Mutual is a specialty insurer founded in 1897 in Merrill, Wisconsin, originally created to serve the faith-based community and now the country's leading insurer of worship centers. It also insures schools, senior living facilities, and camps, including sports camps and outdoor-recreation programs like challenge courses. It is an ACA business affiliate and a preferred provider of the Christian Camp & Conference Association (CCCA).

CIEE (Camp Exchange USA)

Staffing & Recruiting

CIEE is the oldest and largest nonprofit J-1 visa sponsor in the U.S., founded in 1947 and headquartered in Portland, Maine. Its Camp Exchange USA program places international counselors and support staff at accredited American summer camps with full visa sponsorship, insurance, and 24/7 support, and runs in-person and virtual camp recruitment road shows. CIEE was one of the first organizations designated by the State Department to administer the J-1 Summer Work Travel program.

CircuiTree

Camp Management Software

CircuiTree is a cloud-based camp management platform with deep roots in the faith-based camp market, originally developed as the technology arm of Kanakuk Kamps in Branson, Missouri. It offers online registration, electronic medical records, staff management, point of sale, and group management for some of the largest camps in the country. In November 2016 it was acquired by Togetherwork, a group-management software and payments roll-up, where it operates alongside sibling camp brands including Bunk1 and ABC Camps.

Cloud9World

Activities & Programming

Cloud9World is a character-development and social-emotional-learning company with 20+ years of research-based curriculum, whose Cloud9World at Camp program adapts that content specifically for camp settings. Built around the five core SEL competencies and 60 character strengths, it provides counselor training, activity cards, and toolkits (bracelets, bandanas, pins) that fold character work into cabins, sports, arts, and daily camp routines. Materials are available in English and Spanish and support multi-year, non-repeating programming.

Coast-to-Coast Camp Fairs

Marketing

Coast-to-Coast Camp Fairs runs free, family-facing camp fairs in cities across the U.S., each showcasing 50+ day, overnight, sports, and specialty camps so parents can meet representatives and compare programs. For camps, it sells exhibitor booths (starting around $349, with multi-fair discounts) as a recruitment channel, citing meaningful enrollment lifts for participating camps. It is a discovery-and-recruitment marketing option rather than a digital agency.

Commercial Recreation Specialists (CRS)

Aquatics & Waterfront

Commercial Recreation Specialists (CRS) is a recreation products and services company that outfits camp and resort waterfronts with floating inflatables, splashpads, playgrounds, and shade structures, including its exclusive WhoaZones aqua parks. Headquartered in Verona, Wisconsin with sales offices in New Jersey and Minnesota, it provides planning, design, installation, training, and operational support rather than just selling equipment. It is a major dealer of RAVE Sports and Wibit waterfront products.

CommunityPass (Capturepoint)

Recreation & Registration Software

CommunityPass, made by Capturepoint (founded 1999 in Ridgewood, New Jersey), is a recreation and school-program management platform launched in 2003 for municipal recreation, schools, and local sports organizations. Families sign up and pay online for camps, classes, child care, memberships, and events, while administrators manage registration, payments, facilities, and reporting. It serves more than 1.5 million families across U.S. communities.

CourseStorm

Registration Software

CourseStorm is an Orono, Maine-based online class registration and marketing platform used by a wide range of education and enrichment programs, including summer camps and after-school programs, alongside community education, the arts, and workforce training. The platform focuses on simple, fast registration and payment for small and mid-sized programs, with customers across the U.S.

Crazy Creek

Apparel & Merchandise

Crazy Creek Products has made packable, lightweight outdoor camp chairs and pads since 1987 from its home base in Red Lodge, Montana. Built from ripstop nylon and closed-cell foam with a lifetime defect warranty, the chairs are camp, paddling, and bleacher staples and the company runs a repair program to keep used chairs out of landfills. It sells direct and through outdoor retailers like REI.

Crowded

Payments

Crowded provides FDIC-insured banking and financial management built specifically for nonprofits, including budgeted debit cards, digital fundraising, spending tracking, and AI-assisted IRS Form 990 filing. It targets the common nonprofit pain of stitching together generic bank accounts, manual reimbursements, and siloed donation tools. Nonprofit camps and multi-chapter youth organizations are a natural fit for its compliance-focused banking platform.

Crown Awards

Awards & Recognition

Crown Awards is described as America's largest awards manufacturer, founded by Chuck Weisenfeld in 1978 and headquartered in a 250,000-square-foot facility in Hawthorne, New York with roughly 150 retail stores. It makes trophies, medals, plaques, ribbons, pins, and crystals across hundreds of sports and activities, with same-day shipping on in-stock items. Camps use it for banquet awards, color-war and competition medals, and end-of-session recognition.

CSI Software (CSI Spectrum)

Recreation & Membership Management Software

CSI Software (CSI Spectrum) is a Houston-based membership and facility management platform founded in 1978, serving health and fitness clubs, campus recreation, parks and recreation, wellness centers, and camp facilities. Its Spectrum product covers accounting, POS, scheduling, facilities, CRM, camp management, and member self-service. It was acquired by Daxko in 2015 and now sits within the Daxko/Club Automation portfolio.

Daxko

Recreation & Membership Management Software

Daxko is a Birmingham, Alabama health-and-wellness software and payments company founded in 1998, and the largest provider of management software to member-based nonprofits like YMCAs and JCCs, which run extensive camp programs. It offers membership, program, and financial management plus integrated payments across roughly 16,000 facilities in 140 countries. Daxko is also a serial acquirer, having absorbed CSI Software, Exercise.com, and others into its portfolio.

Dharma Trading Co.

Activities & Programming

Dharma Trading Co. has been a leading source for tie-dye and ice-dye supplies, fabric dyes, and blank apparel since 1969, shipping from a California warehouse. It carries dyes, kits, blank garments, and craft chemistry suited to the high-volume tie-dye sessions that are a camp staple, plus free crafting support. Camps source bulk dye, soda ash, and blanks for classic tie-dye programming.

Diamond Brand Gear

Facilities & Structures

Diamond Brand Gear is an American manufacturer of canvas wall tents and outdoor gear, hand-sewn in Asheville, North Carolina since 1881. Its tents have been a fixture at summer and Scout camps for decades, including Philmont Scout Ranch, and it produced the first official Boy Scouts of America pack in 1931. Today it sells canvas wall tents and accessories directly to camps, outdoor programs, and consumers, with camp group discounts and a tent-rescue sustainability program.

Diamond Waterfronts

Facilities & Equipment

Diamond Waterfronts designs and builds waterfront infrastructure for camps and aquatic facilities, including docks, rafts, and related waterfront products and services. The company serves camps that operate lakefront and waterfront programs.

Domokur + Associates

Facilities & Architecture

Domokur + Associates is an architecture and master-planning firm that specializes in camps and retreat centers alongside corporate, higher-education, and parks-and-recreation work. It offers master planning, architecture, landscape architecture, and interior design, and runs a dedicated camp-design practice (campdesign.com). Its camp projects include large multi-building redevelopments such as Capital Camps and Retreat Center in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania.

Ellis & Associates (Jeff Ellis & Associates)

Aquatic Safety & Lifeguard Training

Ellis & Associates is widely described as the world's first aquatic safety and risk-management firm, founded in 1983 and known for its International Lifeguard Training Program used at pools and waterparks worldwide. Its lifeguard certification is one of the handful of programs recognized by U.S. health agencies, alongside services in aquatic facility management (Jeff Ellis Management), swim instruction, and AI-based safety tech (EAISafety). Camp waterfronts and pools use its certification and audit programs to meet safety standards.

ePACT Network

Health & Medical

ePACT Network is a HIPAA-compliant emergency network that replaces paper medical forms, waivers, and consents for camps, YMCAs, and recreation departments with a secure digital record families create once and reuse. It offers an emergency dashboard, check-in/out app, health screening, and multi-channel communication, with granular permissions so a camp manager sees only their session's campers. It integrates with registration systems including ActiveNet, Daxko, and RecTrac rather than replacing them.

eSoft Planner

Class & Camp Scheduling Software

eSoft Planner is a web-based scheduling and registration module for camps, clinics, and classes, popular with sports academies and group-instruction programs. It manages enrollment and billing, signup deadlines, age/date restrictions, instructor scheduling, and automated email/SMS confirmations and reminders. It is positioned as an affordable, flexible tool for organizations whose camps and classes drive the bulk of revenue.

ESS Universal

Facilities & Equipment

ESS Universal manufactures heavy-duty steel bunk beds and waterproof camp mattresses built for the demands of camps and youth facilities, with steel bunks stress-tested to 500 pounds per platform. Its mattresses use RF-welded, sealed vinyl covers designed for quick disinfection and bed-bug prevention between sessions. The product line targets cabins, dorms, and shelters that need durable, sanitary, high-capacity sleeping setups.

Everything Summer Camp

Equipment & Supplies

Everything Summer Camp is the retail brand of C&N Manufacturing, Inc. (C&N Footlockers), a Boyd, WI company founded in 1987. It sells summer-camp gear — steel and soft camp trunks (which it manufactures), duffels, bedding, camping gear, name labels, apparel, and accessories — plus personalization, lifetime trunk repair, and a personal-shopper service.

Experiential Systems, Inc. (ESI)

Challenge Course Construction

Experiential Systems, Inc. (ESI) is a full-service challenge course company that designs, builds, inspects, repairs, and trains for ropes courses, zip lines, climbing walls, and aerial adventure parks. It describes itself as the first and only North American ISO 9001-certified challenge course company, with clients including camps, universities, resorts, and the military. ESI has been building since 1983 and conducts inspections and certifications to ACCT, ASTM, ACA, and CWA standards on its own courses and those built by others.

Fast Radios

Safety & Security

Fast Radios supplies two-way radios and related communications equipment to camps, marketed under its 'Radios For My Camp' brand. The company focuses on camp communications, emergency and disaster-response use, and equipment rental.

FunFangle

Payments

FunFangle is a suite of apps that gives camps cashless camp-store spending accounts using RFID or QR-coded souvenir wristbands, so campers can buy from the canteen, snack shack, or store without cash. Parents fund and monitor accounts from home, and the system also handles attendance, check-in/out verification, medication tracking, and care packages. Based in Millersville, Maryland, it serves both residential and day camps and is an ACA New England vendor.

Generac Power Systems

Facilities & Equipment

Generac is a large U.S. manufacturer of backup power generation equipment, including standby and portable generators. For camps, its relevance is reliable backup power for facilities, food storage, medical needs, and operations during outages. It is a major national brand whose camp business is one slice of a broad commercial, residential, and industrial customer base.

Go Camp Pro

Consulting & Training

Go Camp Pro provides professional development, consulting, and resources for summer camp directors across marketing, staffing, facilities, business, and program, and produces a network of camp-industry podcasts including the Camp Owners Podcast. Built specifically for independent, owner-operated camps rather than adapted corporate coaching, its programs (like the Resilience Blueprint) target founder-led camps serving roughly 100-600 campers. It functions as both a consultancy and a camp-professional community.

Gopher Sport

Facilities & Equipment

Gopher Sport is a national distributor of physical education, athletics, fitness, and recreation equipment serving schools and institutions since 1947 from Owatonna, Minnesota. It is the parent of several brands spanning PE gear (Gopher), early-childhood active play (Play With A Purpose), classroom movement (Moving Minds), STEM supplies, and the SPARK curriculum. Camps draw on its sports and recreation equipment, though its core market is K-12 and institutional PE programs.

Great American Insurance Group (Specialty Human Services)

Insurance

Great American Insurance Group's Specialty Human Services division insures youth programs and summer camps, with general liability, accident & health, owned-auto (including buses and 15-passenger vans), D&O, umbrella, and abuse/molestation coverage. It is a preferred carrier for the Boys and Girls Clubs of America and emphasizes abuse coverage spanning both employee-on-client and client-on-client incidents. Based in Cincinnati, it is a large, established carrier serving the youth and camp sector.

Hamsa Cooking

Food Service

Hamsa Cooking is a kosher camp food-service provider founded in 2019 by Michael and Efrat Mack and based in Davie, Florida. It focuses specifically on the kosher camping community, offering full-service kitchen operations with chefs, training, and leadership tailored to camp needs. Its niche makes it a natural fit for Jewish summer camps.

Head Rush Technologies

Adventure Recreation Equipment

Head Rush Technologies is a Colorado-based engineering company that makes adventure-safety equipment built on patented magnetic (eddy-current) braking, including the TRUBLUE Auto Belay, the zipSTOP zip line brake, and QuickFlight free-fall devices. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Louisville, Colorado, its devices are used in roughly 100 countries across climbing, zip line, and free-fall installations. It supplies the equipment that sits on top of courses built by challenge-course companies.

Healthforms.io

Health & Medical

Healthforms.io is a medical-form management platform that lets camps and youth programs collect, manage, and review camper health documents before arrival, smoothing check-in and helping staff catch issues early. It supports advance document upload, administrative tracking of submission progress, and compliance with camp vaccination and health-record requirements. It is operated by Southport Solutions, LLC of Franklin, Tennessee.

iCampPro

Camp Management Software

iCampPro is a camp management platform from iClassPro that pairs registration with strong camp health and retail tools, including an electronic health record, medication administration, incident tracking, and a cashless point-of-sale camp store with prepaid camper accounts. Built with input from camp health professionals, it offers RFID camper bands, mobile-friendly nurse workflows, and prepaid store balances families fund from the registration portal. It targets camps wanting health management and POS alongside registration.

iClassPro

Class Management Software

iClassPro is a Longview, Texas class-management software company founded in 2008, serving children's activity centers in gymnastics, swim, cheer, and dance worldwide. Built by a gym owner for class-based businesses, it offers scheduling, billing, online registration, and touchless check-in. It is the parent of iCampPro, its camp-focused product line.

Improve & Grow

Marketing

Improve & Grow is a digital marketing agency that includes camps among its served industries, offering camp marketing services such as online advertising, search marketing, and lead generation. The firm works with camps that want to grow enrollment through digital channels.

Innovative Camp Company

Consulting

Innovative Camp Company is a consulting and product-sourcing firm for camps and youth-serving organizations, applying best practices and research to operational challenges and helping programs source the products they need. It works with national youth organizations and camps across the country and positions itself as a partner that strengthens a program's mission without forcing it to change its identity. Its focus is advisory and procurement support rather than a single product.

InterExchange

Staffing & Recruiting

InterExchange is a New York City-based nonprofit J-1 visa sponsor whose Camp USA program has connected international counselors and support staff with U.S. summer camps since 1982. As one of the few nonprofit camp-counselor sponsors, it markets lower program fees than for-profit competitors and a recruitment network reaching underrepresented countries. It works with more than 200 camps and assigns each a dedicated placement specialist.

Jackrabbit (Jackrabbit Technologies)

Class Management Software

Jackrabbit Technologies is a Huntersville, North Carolina company that built one of the first cloud-based class management platforms in 2004, serving youth activity centers in gymnastics, dance, swim, cheer, music, and childcare. It handles online registration, billing, skills tracking, and reporting for more than 15,000 locations across 36 countries. Camps and theater/arts programs are among the youth-activity segments it serves.

Joffe Emergency Services

Safety & Security

Joffe Emergency Services is an all-in-one provider of emergency-response training, event safety, and disaster-preparedness supplies for schools, camps, nonprofits, and businesses. Founded around 2010 and based in Santa Monica, California, it has grown to a network of roughly 800 responders nationwide, including EMTs, paramedics, and doctors. It offers on-site medical coverage, emergency planning, AEDs and first-aid kits, and online safety courses through Joffe Academy.

Jostens – The Mascot Shop

Apparel & Merchandise

The Mascot Shop is a Jostens offering that provides custom apparel, t-shirts, and spirit/merchandise products. For camps, it is a source of branded clothing and merchandise. It is part of Jostens, a long-established national company best known for school yearbooks, rings, and graduation and spirit products.

Jumbula

Registration Software

Jumbula is an online registration and management platform founded in 2013 in Silicon Valley, designed for classes, camps, childcare, and after-school programs across the US, Canada, and UK. It handles day, full-day, drop-in, and overnight structures with grouping, waitlists, check-in/out, and email/SMS, and includes a free homesite builder. It is well-suited to organizations running camps alongside year-round classes, and partners with the ActivityHero marketplace for added visibility.

K&K Insurance

Insurance

K&K Insurance is a specialty insurer for the sports, leisure, recreation, and entertainment industries, founded in 1952 in Fort Wayne, Indiana and now a subsidiary of Aon. Branded around 'insuring the world's fun,' it runs more than 80 programs covering everything from motorsports to camps and campgrounds. As one of the largest managing general underwriters in the U.S., it handles underwriting, loss control, and claims across recreational organizations.

LabelDaddy

Apparel & Merchandise

LabelDaddy makes personalized, durable name labels for kids' belongings, used by camps and camp-family programs to cut down on lost items. It partners with organizations such as US Sports Camps to provide branded camper labels. The company is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Luggage Forward

Transportation

Luggage Forward is a door-to-door luggage delivery company that expanded formally into the camp market in 2026 after two decades shipping for camp parents and luxury travel brands like Holland America and Viking. It ships luggage, sports equipment, and boxes across more than 150 countries and is integrating its service directly into leading camp management systems. The camp push is led by co-CEO Audrey Kohout.

LugLess

Transportation

LugLess is a luggage shipping service that lets camp families send trunks, duffels, and boxes directly to camp and back, pitched as a cheaper alternative to traditional shippers. It provides instant quotes based on home and camp addresses and emphasizes affordability and convenience for camp travel days. LugLess is a business affiliate of the American Camp Association.

Mabel's Labels

Apparel & Merchandise

Mabel's Labels is the best-known brand of durable, waterproof peel-and-stick name labels for kids' belongings at camp, school, and daycare. Founded in 2003 by four mothers out of a basement in Hamilton, Ontario, it grew into a market-leading e-commerce business and runs a popular fundraising program for camps and schools. Its labels are designed to survive laundry, dishwashers, and the camp lost-and-found pile.

Mad Science

Activities & Programming

Mad Science is a national provider of hands-on science enrichment programming for children, delivered through a network of franchise locations. For camps, it offers STEM-focused activities, workshops, and camp programs designed to make science engaging for kids.

Make It Campy

Marketing

Make It Campy designs brand identities specifically for summer camps and independent schools, from custom logos to in-camp marketing materials and overall camp experience design. It was founded in 2024 by Michael, a former Director of Camp Experience and Auxiliary Programs with a decade in camp-focused design, who won SPARC's Excellence in Auxiliary Award in 2023. The studio takes a holistic approach to weaving a camp's identity through all of its touchpoints.

Markel

Insurance

Markel is a specialty insurer (part of Markel Group Inc.); its child-care-and-enrichment segment covers camps among many youth and group activities. Camp-relevant offerings include accident-medical, general liability, and property coverage via appointed Markel agents, with loss-control and risk-management resources. Markel also underwrites camp programs sold through other agencies.

Midland Radio

Communications

Midland Radio Corporation is a Kansas City-based communications manufacturer founded in 1959, the oldest U.S. maker of CB radios and a leading supplier of two-way radios, GMRS radios, and NOAA weather radios. Its consumer and business radio lines, including weather-alert models, suit camp operations and emergency communication. The company is the U.S. affiliate of an international group with offices across Europe and Asia.

Mind Your Business (MYB)

Background Screening

Mind Your Business (MYB) is a background-screening firm founded in 1996 by Karen Caruso and based in Hendersonville, North Carolina, with a dedicated summer-camp screening practice. Notably, MYB began as a childcare/nanny screening service before expanding to serve enterprises and government, giving it deep roots in vetting people who work with children. It is a certified woman-owned small business offering criminal, child-abuse-registry, drug, and driving-record checks with ATS integration.

MinistryGear

Apparel & Merchandise

MinistryGear is a custom screen-printing company focused specifically on churches and ministries, producing church T-shirts and apparel with free design and shipping. It markets itself as built by people who understand church work, aiming to simplify ordering for pastors and ministry leaders. Its church focus makes it relevant to faith-based and church camp programs.

Modular Genius

Facilities & Structures

Modular Genius is an award-winning designer and manufacturer of permanent and relocatable modular buildings, headquartered in Joppa, Maryland. It offers a dedicated modular camp systems line, providing turnkey cabins, dining halls, restrooms, and other structures for camps and outdoor programs. Its modular approach is positioned as a faster, more flexible alternative to traditional construction.

Nasco Education

Activities & Programming

Nasco Education is a Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin supplier of arts, crafts, STEM, art, and educational materials founded in 1948, widely used by schools, early-childhood programs, and camps. It offers bulk craft supplies, ready-to-go project kits, and program materials suited to camp activity periods. In December 2025 it was acquired by School Specialty, a major K-12 classroom supplier.

Pacific Yurts

Facilities & Structures

Pacific Yurts is the original designer and manufacturer of the modern yurt, founded in 1978 by Alan Bair in Cottage Grove, Oregon. Its durable, quick-to-install fabric structures are used for camp lodging, glamping, and resort accommodations, with engineered upgrades for snow and wind loads and an online design-and-price tool. The company has shipped thousands of yurts worldwide and maintains a dedicated camp-and-resort sales focus.

PackMyRx

Health & Medical

PackMyRx is a camper-medication packaging and fulfillment service from Paw Paw Village Pharmacy, providing daily-dose strip packaging of prescriptions, OTCs, and supplements shipped directly to camp before each session. Built for overnight camps and boarding schools, it offers multi-state licensure, HIPAA-compliant service, camper-data imports, and a status portal for camp health staff. The adherence packaging is pitched as reducing medication errors and camp liability.

Parker-Anderson Enrichment

Activities & Programming

Parker-Anderson Enrichment is a provider of after-school programs, enrichment classes, and summer camps that has operated since 1986, delivering programming at schools, camps, and events. Its catalog spans academic and creative subjects under a 'fun comes first' philosophy that pairs engagement with tangible skill-building. It supplies turnkey enrichment content and instructors that camps and programs can run on-site.

PerfectMind (Xplor Recreation)

Recreation Management Software

PerfectMind, now marketed as Xplor Recreation, is a cloud recreation management platform founded in 1998 for municipalities, parks and recreation departments, YMCAs, community centers, and camps. It handles registration, scheduling, memberships, facility booking, and citywide point of sale, and offers dedicated camp management tooling. It was acquired by Xplor Technologies in 2020, joining a global software-and-payments group serving 140+ markets.

Perry Weather

Safety & Security

Perry Weather is a Dallas-based weather-safety platform combining on-site weather stations, lightning detection, and wet-bulb-globe-temperature (heat) monitoring with automated alerts via app, SMS, sirens, and PA systems. Used across hundreds of camps, parks, schools, and sports facilities, it provides 24/7 meteorologist support and detailed weather logs. It is positioned to help Texas camps meet new requirements under the Heaven's 27 Camp Safety Act.

Praesidium

Safety & Security

Praesidium is the nation's leading specialist in preventing sexual abuse in youth-serving organizations, with more than 30 years of experience and an Arlington, Texas base. It offers abuse-risk assessment via its Praesidium Safety Equation framework, online training through Praesidium Academy, policy consultation, and an accreditation program that organizations use to demonstrate their safety commitment to families, regulators, and insurers. Camps, schools, churches, and social-service agencies are core clients.

Quitch

Health & Medical

Quitch is a family-focused first-aid brand created by three mothers, best known for the Quitch Sticker, a hydrocolloid anti-itch patch that relieves mosquito, spider, no-see-um, and chigger bites without medication. The line has expanded to include a geraniol-based bug repellent balm and repellent patches, positioned as chemical-free, kid-friendly alternatives to sprays and creams. The products are marketed as summer camp and travel essentials and are sold through camp channels and major retailers.

RAVE Sports

Aquatics & Waterfront

RAVE Sports is the originator of the inflatable water trampoline, a product first designed and sold into the summer camp market in 1997 that effectively launched the category. It manufactures commercial-grade water trampolines, water bouncers, floating obstacle systems, and aqua parks used by camps and resorts, sold through dealers like CRS via its commercial division. RAVE is now part of Escalade, Inc.'s portfolio of recreation brands.

RecDesk

Recreation Management Software

RecDesk is a cloud-based recreation management platform founded in 2005 in Middletown, Connecticut, serving parks and recreation departments, community centers, schools, and summer camps with registration, facilities, programs, and financial tools. In May 2024 it was acquired by Clubessential Holdings, expanding that group's recreation software portfolio. Its FlexForms builder and contract-free, all-inclusive subscriptions are signature features.

RegFox

Registration Software

RegFox is a low-cost, highly customizable event and camp registration platform built by Webconnex, the Sacramento-based maker of TicketSpice, GivingFuel, and RedPodium. It is known for transparent flat-rate pricing (roughly $0.99 plus 1% per registrant, capped) that undercuts percentage-based incumbents, plus a flexible page builder, branding control, and check-in app. Camps, retreats, conferences, and schools use it for registration without long-term contracts.

Regpack

Registration Software

Regpack is an online registration and payment platform used by camps, courses, after-school programs, retreats, and other program-based organizations. Founded by Asaf Darash and built on his PhD research into flexible data networks, the platform emphasizes conditional registration logic, automated recurring billing, and payment processing. It is a bootstrapped, founder-led company that has grown without outside venture funding.

Rocky Talkie

Communications

Rocky Talkie is a Denver-based maker of rugged, easy-to-use two-way radios built for the outdoors, founded in 2019 by adventure partners Bryce and Alex. Its license-free Mountain Radio and GMRS 5 Watt Expedition Radio feature multi-day battery life, waterproofing, and carabiner attachment, making them a fit for camp group communication where cell coverage is unreliable. The company donates a portion of each radio sale to search-and-rescue organizations.

RPS Bollinger Sports & Leisure

Insurance

RPS Bollinger Sports & Leisure provides specialty insurance for amateur sports and recreation organizations, including camp, clinic & tournament and resident/day camp programs. Coverage includes accident-medical, general liability, equipment, crime, and D&O, plus risk-management and claims services. A program division of Risk Placement Services, Inc.; based in Whippany, NJ.

S&S Worldwide

Activities & Programming

S&S Worldwide is a Colchester, Connecticut supplier of arts and crafts, games, sports and PE equipment, and educational and therapeutic activity products, in business since 1906. It maintains a dedicated summer-camp supplies line and exhibits at camp conferences such as ACA New England. Its bulk craft kits, active-play equipment, and program supplies are staples for camp activity programming.

Sawyer

Registration Software

Sawyer is a kids-activity registration and management platform used by thousands of children's activity providers, including camps, to handle scheduling, online registration, and payments. Its business product (Sawyer for Business) targets the children's-enrichment market with a consumer-facing marketplace alongside provider tools. It sits adjacent to dedicated camp platforms, serving the broader kids-activity and class-provider segment.

Sealed With A Kiss (SWAK)

Camper Care Packages

Sealed With A Kiss (SWAK) is, by its own account, the original camp care package company, founded in 1984. It offers pre-built and build-your-own camp care packages, plus a concierge option where its team assembles packages for camp families. It serves the parent-facing side of the camp experience, shipping treats and gifts to campers during the season.

Ship Camps

Transportation

Ship Camps is a door-to-door luggage and trunk shipping service built for summer camp families, letting parents send bags, trunks, and boxes directly to camp and back home. It partners with FedEx, UPS, and DHL, includes complimentary insurance on shipments, and offers home or camp pickup. The service positions itself on convenience and bypassing airport bag-check for camper travel.

ShipAndStorage

Transportation

ShipAndStorage offers summer camp shipping for camper gear and luggage, with scheduled pickup and delivery, durable containers, real-time tracking, and optional post-camp storage. It emphasizes compliance with individual camps' shipping policies and end-to-end handling of camp logistics for families.

Snap! Raise

Fundraising

Snap! Raise, part of Snap! Mobile, is a digital fundraising platform built for youth athletics and activities programs, founded in 2014. It provides personalized email/text outreach tools, sponsorship recognition, discount-card fundraisers, and a guardian-led option for younger participants. Camps and youth programs use it for structured, technology-driven fundraising campaigns.

Sollbol

Activities & Programming

Sollbol makes outdoor games and team-building products for camps, schools, and recreation programs. Its lineup centers on group games and outdoor recreation gear aimed at active, cooperative play for youth groups.

Sprintax

Tax & Payments

Sprintax is nonresident tax-compliance software that helps J-1 visa holders, including international summer camp counselors, determine residency status, apply tax-treaty benefits, and file federal and state returns (Forms 1040-NR, 8843, and W-7). Camp counselors on J-1 visas are generally nonresidents for tax purposes, and Sprintax automates the forms and refund claims they need. It is widely used by universities and exchange-program participants for the same workflows.

Sprung Structures

Facilities & Structures

Sprung Structures designs and manufactures relocatable, clear-span tensioned fabric buildings with aluminum frames and architectural membranes, founded in 1926 and used for gymnasiums, recreation facilities, dining halls, and other camp building needs. With more than 12,000 structures deployed in over 100 countries, it offers rapid, foundation-light construction as an alternative to conventional building. It recently absorbed the 138-year-old Western Tent operation.

StarGuard Elite

Aquatic Safety & Lifeguard Training

StarGuard Elite (SGE) is an internationally recognized aquatic risk-prevention agency offering lifeguard training, certification, consulting, and unannounced safety audits, used by waterparks, municipalities, cruise lines, and camps. It grew out of the StarGuard lifeguard program created by Starfish Aquatics Institute founder Jill White and became a separately operated entity in 2018. Its audits and design/risk-assessment services help aquatic operations exceed industry safety standards.

Sterling Volunteers

Background Screening

Sterling Volunteers, formerly Verified Volunteers, is a background-screening platform built specifically for nonprofits and youth-serving organizations, including camps. Its model lets volunteers own and reshare their vetted background check across multiple organizations, cutting cost and turnaround. It partners with Points of Light and serves well-known youth organizations, with screening tailored to volunteers working with children.

Summer Camp Cooks

Food Service

Summer Camp Cooks provides full-service camp kitchen outsourcing, supplying experienced chefs and support staff who understand high-volume quantity cooking and special diets. It manages staffing, production planning, and menu variety, and runs operations on the purpose-built Camp Kitchen Pro platform. The company positions its chef relationships and teaching-oriented kitchen management as its differentiators.

Summer Camp Shipping

Transportation

Summer Camp Shipping is a luggage delivery service focused exclusively on camp logistics, providing pre-filled tags and lanyards, account-based tracking, and pickup-to-delivery handling of camper belongings. The company markets more than a decade of camp-shipping experience and offers a direct channel for camp directors seeking a parent shipping partner.

Sure Check Background Screening

Staffing & Recruiting

Sure Check Background Screening provides employment background checks and screening services, with a focus on speed, accuracy, and direct customer support. Founded by a former educator, the company markets itself to organizations—including youth-serving programs—that need reliable screening of the adults they hire.

Synergo

Challenge Course Construction

Synergo is a Portland, Oregon-based adventure course company offering design and installation of challenge courses, zip line tours, and aerial adventure parks, plus inspection, training, gear, and facilitated team-building programs. Founded in 1994 and owned by Erik and Jennifer Marter, it has grown from local experiential programming into an internationally recognized builder while remaining a Pacific Northwest leader. It runs team-building programs at numerous Oregon camps.

Tastebuds Food Service

Food Service

Tastebuds Food Service is a family-owned camp food-service company based in Davie, Florida, with roots in a catering business started by Larry and Rachel in 1995 and its first camp kitchen in 1996. It emphasizes non-institutional, scratch-cooked meals and accommodates extensive dietary and religious needs, serving more than 100,000 meals per summer. The business has expanded year-round to camps, retreat centers, and disaster-relief operations across the U.S.

The Campany

Marketing

The Campany is a marketing and web agency specializing exclusively in summer camps, offering responsive website design, hosting, SEO, branding, and custom camp apps. Operating for roughly two decades, it markets a concierge approach where account specialists handle a camp's web presence so directors can focus on running the camp. Its clients are largely day and overnight camps in the Northeast.

The Redwoods Group

Insurance

The Redwoods Group is a specialty commercial insurer founded in 1997 that exclusively serves youth-serving organizations: camps, YMCAs, JCCs, and Boys & Girls Clubs. A Certified B Corporation based in Durham, North Carolina, it pairs property and casualty coverage with safety consulting and child-abuse-prevention resources drawn from the incidents it investigates. It is an ACA business partner and supports ACA's Research 360 study.

TOOTRiS

Registration Software

TOOTRiS is a San Diego-based child care on-demand platform that connects parents, providers, employers, and agencies in one real-time system, including a network spanning summer camps, after-school programs, and tutoring. It is distinctive for managing employer-sponsored child care benefits and distributing/tracking public subsidies, plus turnkey provider management tools at no cost to providers. For camps, it offers an enrollment and subsidy-reimbursement channel most camp software doesn't touch.

Trinity/HPSI

Food Service

Trinity/HPSI is a group purchasing organization that helps camps and similar facilities buy a broad range of supplies and services—spanning food and beverage, facilities and maintenance products, equipment, and operational goods—often at negotiated pricing. For camps, it functions as a purchasing partner across many spend categories rather than a single-product vendor.

True Hire

Background Screening

True Hire is a Canton, Ohio background-screening company with more than two decades of experience and a dedicated 'Background Checks for Camps' program offering budget-conscious packages for camp employees and volunteers. It provides FCRA-compliance support, full-service compliance packages, fingerprinting, and a range of screening tools, and also works extensively with churches and nonprofits. Its camp-specific packages and fast turnaround target seasonal hiring crunches.

Trunks 2 Bunks

Transportation

Trunks 2 Bunks is a white-glove camp luggage delivery service that ships campers' trunks door-to-camp and back, working with professional movers and its own drivers with dedicated dispatchers per route. It serves Northeast overnight camps such as those in the Berkshires and Poconos, and handles building/doorman pickups for New York City families. A portion of every shipment is donated to SCOPE, a nonprofit funding camperships for kids who couldn't otherwise attend camp.

Twinkle

Apparel & Merchandise

Twinkle Ink provides custom apparel, t-shirts, and printing and graphics services for camps and groups. The company produces branded clothing and printed merchandise used for camp staff, campers, and events.

UltraCamp

Camp Management Software

UltraCamp is a Niles, Michigan-based camp management and online registration platform serving the summer camp industry since the late 1990s. Its tools cover registration, payments and payment plans, staff management, health tracking, and reporting, with a focus on responsive customer support and no long-term contracts.

Upper Crust Food Service

Food Service

Upper Crust Food Service is a camp food-service management company based in Columbia, Missouri that provides turnkey kitchen operations: staffing, food purchasing, menu development, and equipment handling. It has a strong presence in Scout camps and was the presenting sponsor of Scouting America's 2025 National Annual Meeting. The company markets itself as a daily operating partner rather than a drop-off vendor.

USA Archery

Activities & Programming

USA Archery is the national governing body for the sport of archery in the United States. For camps, its relevance is archery instructor certification, program standards, and resources that help camps run safe, credible archery programming. It is a nonprofit organization recognized within the U.S. Olympic movement rather than a product vendor.

UV Skinz

Apparel & Merchandise

UV Skinz is a sun-protective apparel company based in Sonora, California, making UPF 50+ clothing and swimwear that blocks 98% of UVA/UVB rays for the whole family. Founded in 2006 by CEO Rhonda Sparks after she lost her husband to melanoma, it pairs its product line with skin-cancer awareness advocacy and carries the Skin Cancer Foundation's Seal of Recommendation. It runs a Camp Partner program offering camps roughly 50% off retail and customization.

Vails Gate Cleaners

Facilities & Equipment

Vails Gate Cleaners provides laundry and cleaning services, supplying camps with laundry supplies and service. It is a regional service provider serving camps and other organizations with bulk and operational laundry needs.

Viristar

Consulting & Training

Viristar provides risk-management training and strategic safety consulting for outdoor, wilderness, adventure, travel, and experiential programs, including summer camps. Its flagship four-week Risk Management for Outdoor Programs course teaches a systems-thinking 'Risk Domains' model and comes with a 218-page textbook, used by program leaders, safety committee members, and field staff. It positions safety as an organizational discipline rather than a checklist.

Visiplex

Safety & Security

Visiplex makes wireless communication and notification systems, including paging, public-address, two-way radios, and emergency and weather-alert systems. For camps, its products support facility-wide communication, safety alerts, and emergency notification across large or spread-out sites.

Waldo Photos

Photography

Waldo Photos (Waldo Photos, Inc.) is an Austin, TX photo- and video-sharing platform that uses facial and jersey/object recognition, location data, and mobile delivery to automatically find and send people photos taken by others. It serves consumers and organizations including summer camps, schools, churches, youth sports, resorts, and events, with photo/video sales.

WAVE Drowning Detection Systems

Safety & Security

WAVE Drowning Detection Systems makes wireless, wearable drowning-detection technology for pools and waterfronts. Its system alerts lifeguards in real time when a swimmer stays submerged beyond a set time, and is used by camps, YMCAs, Boys & Girls Clubs, schools, and parks-and-recreation aquatics programs. The portable, no-installation system has been studied specifically in children's summer-camp swimming settings.

Westpoint Insurance

Insurance

Westpoint Insurance offers a youth summer camp insurance program designed to protect players, coaches, managers, and volunteers, with customizable limits. It markets camp coverage as a way to win parents' trust and supports waiver/release-driven risk management. It is one of several specialty programs serving the camp and youth-program market.

Wibit Sports

Aquatics & Waterfront

Wibit Sports is a German manufacturer of modular inflatable floating waterparks installed in more than 100 countries, with 30+ years in commercial-grade aqua parks. Its TUV-certified, UV-resistant modules connect into customizable obstacle-course systems for lakes, beaches, and pools used by camps, resorts, and attractions. In the U.S. its open-water inflatables are sold through an exclusive distributor, Commercial Recreation Specialists.

Wild Packs

Staffing & Recruiting

Wild Packs is a UK-based summer camp recruitment agency that places counselors and support staff, mainly British students, at ACA-accredited U.S. camps. Rather than sponsoring J-1 visas itself, it works in conjunction with sponsors CIEE and AAG to handle visa paperwork and in-country support. Its camp programs also power Alliance Abroad's American Camp Crew, covering 300+ North American camps.

Wolfoods

Food Service

Wolfoods is a summer camp food-service company founded in 2013 by Michael Wolf and based in Brooklyn, New York, built around home-style scratch cooking rather than freezer-to-table fare. It staffs camp kitchens with professional chefs and bakers and handles a wide range of dietary needs, from kosher and nut-free to gluten-free and vegan. It operates across roughly nine states and partners with camp-staffing brand Camp Leaders on pre-season program planning.

99Pledges

Fundraising

99Pledges is a pledge-based online fundraising platform built for schools, teams, youth organizations, and nonprofits to run 'a-thon' events with auto-generated participant pages. It charges no platform fee (transaction fees only, often passed to donors) and requires no parent setup, accepting cards, PayPal, and digital wallets. Camps use it for walk-a-thons, fun runs, and scholarship or capital fundraisers.