For More Episodes visit http://frumentrepreneur.com and please subscribe on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-frum-entrepreneur/id975678776 Show Highlights: Is something I did 27 years ago still embarrassing? 24 Years in Business! Overnight Camp Mindset for a Day Camp 100 Kids First Year (more or less) didn’t make money the first year 200 Kids Second Year Go Carts came in the 3rd Year 4th Year moved to Sun Tan Lake (500 Kids and built a pool) Pool was about $75,000 – Bussing back and forth and the cost of renting a pool Nachum Kligman Color War winning General 2 years in a row beating Effie Weissmandel What is it about summer camp that is so nostalgic? Camp Property was sold for $32,000,000 to Home Depot and that ended Raninu Day Camp They hear a frum girls summer camp was closing down and they went and bought it from them Work for a sleep away camp is so much more expansive then a day camp Sleep Away Camp never ends. Full-time the full summer. No allegiance to camps anymore Everyone is jumping around trying different things Food needs to be themed and fun, but geared for kids Camp Mother works harder than ever and an integral part of the camp. Parents are more involved in their kids these days. Technology Challenges in Camps Today Thousands of Emails a week from parents which are printed out and given to the kids Trying to disconnect the kids from technology. Today’s kids are addicted to their phones. Takes getting used to wean themselves off of texting etc. Own the Camp, 85 Acre Campus that was rebuilt from scratch. Burnt down the bunks and rebuilt everything. 30 Bunks. 400-500 kids. 150-200 Staff members. Fields, two pools, Lake, water trampoline, triple cork screw slide in the pool. Speed Boats, Banana boats. Ropes course. Roller Rink. Indoor outdoor soccer. Baseball fields, machanayim (girls dodgeball), tennis courts, Arts & Crafts, Game Room, Canteen, Drama, New Mud Obstacle course (huge hit despite doubts from other people). Get feedback from the campers and ask what they would like. Turning over staff to younger staff. Biggest Competition is that girls today just want to sit home and do nothing. Parents are not fighting because they think they will save the money. Then after a couple of days the parents come calling. Once they come to camp they love it, but some just stay home. A lot of organizations battling youth-at-risk. If girls are around role models during the summer and form great relationships. Keep the kids in the right atmosphere. Let them have the Simchas HaChayim they may be missing during the school year. Be yourself surrounded by 150 role models. This is prevention. A lot of kids maintain relationships with their counselors after camp ends. Weekly newsletter goes out. They don’t have a website. Parents had to sign permission in order to receive the email newsletter. Second Generation Kids Coming to Camp Unofficial Raninu Shidduch Service. Why it’s so successful! Tens if not hundreds of shidduchim have been made over the years! People Mentioned: The Lovy’s The Buchens The Bazians My Mom Leah Klein Shloimy Klein (Camp Manavu) Rabbi Strassfeld Avraham Klein (Owner of Sun Tan Lake) Robbie Paige son of Avraham Klein Avrumi Klein (Son of the Kleins) Dovid Ehrlblich Effie Weissmandel Zevi Weissmandel Companies/Organizations Mentioned: Camp Raninu Raninu Day Camp Hillel Academy of Passaic Manhattan Day School Camp Manavu Camp Merockdim Eagle Country Day Camp Camp Raleigh Mogen Avraham Home Depot Quotes: Camp is all about Happiness “Can’t tell you how important camp is to keep kids on the derech.” “Camp today is more important than it has ever been for the future of Klal Yisroel.”

• published: 29 Apr 2015
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