Camp Fire’s National Leadership Conference, Youth Leadership Experience, Promise to Practice, and Executive Leadership Experience are combined to give council leaders a chance to come together and focus on solutions that make councils stronger.
Executive Leadership Experience – LEARN MORE!
National Leadership Conference – LEARN MORE!
Youth Leadership Experience – LEARN MORE!
Promise to Practice – LEARN MORE!
$199 – National Leadership Conference
$49 – Youth Leadership Experience
$75 – Promise to Practice
Executive Leadership Experience
The National Leadership Conference and the Youth Leadership Experience would like to invite you to present at the National Conferences.
If you or a youth at your council are interested in presenting at either NLC, YLE, por P2P please submit your interest.
Group Name: CAMP FIRE NAT’L LEADERSHIP
Arrival Date: 13-Oct-2019
Departure Date: 19-Oct-2019
Book Your HotelIn order to receive the contracted rate of $109 per night, hotel reservations need to be secured by September 20, 2019.
4:00 pm – 8:00 pm: Executive Leadership Experience (ELE)
8:00 am – 3:00 pm: Executive Leadership Experience (ELE)
8:00 am – 3:00 pm: Camp Fire National Board Meeting
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm: Board to Board Meeting (For national and council board members only)
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm: ELSA Meeting
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm: Opening Reception
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm: Opening Dinner/Keynote Speaker
8:00 am – 5:00 pm: NLC / YLE Sessions
Free night
8:30 am– 5:00 pm Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies Session
8:30 am – 9:30 am: NLC Congress (breakfast included)
9:45 am – Noon: NLC Closing session (awards presented over lunch)
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Joint Happy Hour Reception with Promise to Practice Attendees
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm: YAC Face 2 Face
8:00 am – 5:00 pm: P2P Presentations and Breakout Sessions
8:30 am – 2:00 pm: YAC Face 2 Face
8:00 am – 5:00 pm: P2P Presentations and Closing
ELE was designed for all newly appointed council executives within the past two years. Camp Fire has 52 councils nationwide; this foundational mini-conference was designed to ensure that new leadership knows all they need to know about the organization, has the opportunity for experiential learning and collaboration with other Camp Fire leaders, participates in interactive breakout sessions, and provides tools for future sustainability and effectiveness. Participants will build an understanding on how best to use Camp Fire’s internal resources, data, and key results for their business planning, as well as build relationships with other Camp Fire Executive Directors/CEOs and National Headquarters staff.
The National Leadership Conference (NLC) is held in odd-numbered years, usually in late October or early November. The conference is a meeting of all council representatives located in various locations around the country. Council presidents, board members, executives, and senior program leadership are invited to hear special keynote speakers and participate in a variety of training and recognition opportunities. This system-wide conference often presents direction-setting opportunities for the future of the organization.
Congress, Camp Fire’s biennial business meeting of the corporation, is held in conjunction with NLC. Each council sends voting delegates to Congress based on a formula related to the size of its membership. Congress votes on changes in bylaws, elects officers, and may adopt resolutions to be considered by the national board of trustees.
Camp Fire’s Youth Leadership Experience (YLE) is a component of NLC for high school teens who help lead or advise their local councils. By participating in YLE, young people build the leadership capacity of their councils while demonstrating skills that empower them to better their schools, families, and communities.
Additional sessions for YLE are planned in conjunction with our National Youth Advisory Cabinet.
Each council must register the youth attending the conference. A travel chaperone will be required. If your council is planning to attend NLC, those participants may be the travel chaperone for youth attending YLE.
Click here for scholarship information.
Promise to Practice (P2P) is Camp Fire’s annual program focused convening that offers in-person training opportunities for council program staff, interns, and volunteers. P2P promotes collective peer-to-peer interaction and encourages sharing and learning among all workshop participants. The theoretical model of “promise to practice” provides council program staff with professional development/training opportunities focused on orientation to core requirements, such as Thrive{ology}, sessions that prepare staff to lead newly revised or developed curricula, enhance targeted skill and knowledge areas, and topics identified by council participants as areas of greatest need and interest. The “Promise to Practice Roadshow” format is used in even-numbered years, with the traditional format used in odd-numbered years, often held back-to-back with the National Leadership Conference. The “Roadshow” format is held at various council locations where attendees will have the opportunity to observe Camp Fire programs and features more intensive training on high-priority topics presented by nationally recognized experts.
