It’s that time of year again when we are starting to get the 4-H camp brochure together for the upcoming summer season. As we move forward in this process, we are now beginning to plan for how many brochures that we need to get printed for each of our partner offices.
This year we are switching to a folded single page poster style format that will include detailed camp information and encourage the parents to view our full descriptions and register via our website: http://www.4h.unl.edu/camp. In addition to this marketing piece, we also have created a marketing tool kit to help your county to market these camp programs. The toolkit can be accessed here via box: https://go.unl.edu/bkgn. This tool kit has our marketing plan and materials that you can use right away including the digital brochure (available mid to late October 2019), articles to submit to local papers, press releases, social media posts, posters to display throughout your community and other helpful information. We will be adding additional materials to this box for your use as more items become available.
Our Camp Administration Team has a goal to increase camper registrations across all camp programs (Eastern 4-H Camp, State 4-H Camp, Big Red Academic Camps) by at least 300 registrations over 2019. We would appreciate your help in helping us reach that goal! If you have any specific questions or needs to help your county in marketing the 4-H Camping program please reach out - we would be happy to help! Our registration is already open for summer 2020 with full details on the website.
Please respond to this email with the number of printed 4-H Camp brochures that you will need for the 2020 Camp Season. Please respond by no later than October 24, 2019. We plan to have requested brochures available for pick up on East Campus during January In-Service.
We are once again going to be using the Sponsorship Code format for 2020. This format really helped streamline the process in managing the scholarship programs across counties. If you are unfamiliar with this process, it is fairly simple. Please reach out to me and let us know that you want to set up a sponsorship code with the dollar amount and the number of awards given. We will then issue your county a code to be used by your 4-Hers that received a camp scholarship. Our system will then track the scholarships with the provided code. At the end of the 2020 camp season, we will invoice the contact person for the amount awarded and redeemed by the 4-H member. This will eliminate the need to reimburse camp families after they register for camp. We highly encourage families to have their codes in hand prior to registering for camp, as it is difficult to issue refunds for camp scholarships after the registration has been processed.
We appreciate all of your hard work and support for the 4-H Camping program! We know, that with your help, that this summer will be the best summer we have ever offered in our 4-H Camping Program!