Camp Meeting Legal Issues
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Digital Real Estate
Have you heard the term “digital real estate”?
It refers to your ministry’s name relative to internet sites and domain names.
For instance – do you control your camp’s domain name?
www.YOURNAMEcamp.org wwww.YOURNAMEcamp.com?
How about your Facebook group name
www.facebookname.com/YOURNAMEcamp
Or your Twitter Address
@YOURNAMEcamp
Maybe you would like to use these communication avenues someday – reserve them now [...]
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Recruiting Board Members
Every camp rises and falls on the strength of its volunteer base. The core of that base is often the members of board. Does your camp have a plan for identifying, recruiting, educating and appreciating your board?
One of the projects I have been working on recently was to put together a [...]
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Financial Accountability – What About Doing the Books Online?
Things are changing fast in the technological age which allows for some collaboration and accountability in ministry which we have never seen before.
One of the big issues for a camp is finding committed volunteers to do the books and furthermore, to get timely reports so that the members of the board and leadership [...]
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Conflict of Interest Policy
Many camps hold their annual meeting during their camp season. Now is a good time to examine your bylaws to reacquaint yourself with what they state about your organization.
Your Constitution and Bylaws are the controlling document of your organization and a valuable tool in operating the ministry. Sadly many leaders are [...]
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Child Abuse and Reporting Issues
One of the most crucial and stressful moments any clergy person or camp director experiences is when someone confesses to or alleges child abuse.
The scenario often takes place after a counselor sees marks on a student or a student alleges they have been abused. Occasionally and if it is possible to be even more [...]
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Camp Meetings and the Homosexual Agenda
At the 2007 Conference we discussed a case out of Ocean Grove New Jersey in which a camp meeting was stripped of its not for profit status. Read this excerpt from a recent LA Times article to see how this is placed in a greater context surrounding religious freedom and California Proposition 8.
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Creating Corporate Structure – Membership or No Membership
There are certainly advantages to having a nonmember corporate structure for your not-for-profit organization. This post discusses the benefits of such a decision.
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Roberts Rules of Order
One of the best tools for running an efficient and effective meeting is Roberts Rules of Order. Many people are not familiar enough with the Rules to use them. Let me suggest a quick way to increase your knowledge and become a better leader of meetings.
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Camp Counselors and Background Checks
Background checks will soon become the norm rather than the exception in many states by action of the legislature.
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