Insights Into Your Key Audiences
When you turn numbers into stories, you get a picture of what your key audiences care about and are motivated by. This allows you to make choices and design experiences that have the most impact. learn moreget startedTurn numbers into stories of impact
We run people-focused ministries, and when you listen well to your key audiences, you’re able to offer the best possible hospitality for their experience before, during, and after they set foot on site at your camp.
Listening really well takes intentionality, and through a process that can include gathering both qualitative and quantitative data, we craft a set of insights that helps your ministry increase program quality, maximize staff capacity, and energize your camp community. Start by identifying the audiences you’d like to learn more about.
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Campers + Parents
Effective Camp projects offer actionable research into your individual or group of camps based on the methods of the Effective Camp Research Project. The insights generated in these projects have proven to help outdoor ministry leaders make well-informed choices, increase staff capacity, and maximize impact. Learn more about the 3 levels of engagement and decide if an individual project or cohort project is right for you.
Level 1: Parent Insights
Gain impactful understand on the perspectives and motivations of those that often make the key decision around camp – registering campers.
Level 2: parents + campers
Parents and campers are the primary audiences you serve when youth summer camp is your focus. When you tap into what makes or breaks their experience, you can make choices that maximize program quality.
level 3: effective camp projects
This level of engagement is the full effective camp project, where we can gather multiple levels of camper data to understand longer-term impact and deeper insights.
starting at $1500
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Summer Staff
Take the pulse of your summer staff experience, helping you to recruit well, retain more, and foster personal and spiritual growth in your team. Pricing is based on number of summer staff responding.
starting at $500
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Retreat & Event Guests
Gain deeper understanding of those individuals and groups that spend time at camp beyond the summer for retreats, conferences, events, and more. Pricing is based on the number of expected responses.
starting at $1500
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Guests & Donors
Discover what your donors, volunteers, constituents, and guests care about most when it comes to your camp. Uncover key motivations of those that engage with and support your ministry. Initial pricing includes up to 500 responses and 3 open response questions.
starting at $3950
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Design a Project
have a question? Let’s figure out a way to find the answer. Creativity and curiosity meet when we work together to design a research project to generate information that leads to wise choices and the best experiences for the people and programs that matter most.
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Comprehensive Camp Research Projects
The comprehensive research & insights experience for an outdoor ministry organization or association. We’ll research each of your key audiences listed above, generate multiple reports and online dashboards, and consult on the most impactful recommendations for your ministry going forward. Think of it as a research-based approach to strategic planning.
starting at $9000
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Our Research Team
There is a full team behind the research into effective, impactful ministry that is the heart of how we help camps thrive. We've each got more than 2 decades of work connected to outdoor and church-based ministry. Use the button to meet the people that make these projects happen.
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Research Hub
Curious about what camp research really looks like? Take a dive into the projects and findings, articles and resources, and shareable insights we’ve compiled in our outdoor ministry research hub.
