December 8 - 11, 2024

We’re delighted to have you in Chicago for this incredible four days of Jewish Camp Summit activities, including the JCamp 180 Conference and Foundation for Jewish Camp Leaders Assembly. Over the course of the next 4 days over 1,000 people will be joining our plenaries, workshops, deep dives, and site visits. We hope you walk away with new learning, deepened connections, and inspiration.

We thank you for spending your valuable time investing in our collective Jewish future.

-The JCamp 180 and Foundation for Jewish Camp Teams

Foundation for Jewish Camp and JCamp 180, a program of the Harold Grinspoon Foundation, are partnering to host a joint Jewish Camp Summit December 8-11, 2024. This event will be the first time the organizations will host their respective conferences—the annual JCamp 180 Conference and FJC’s biennial Leaders Assembly—consecutively and in a shared venue with intentional and collaborative planning.

JCamp 180 will kick off the joint event on Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024, with a full day of programming focused on camp governance issues as well as sessions on fundraising best practices. Then, Foundation for Jewish Camp’s 10th biennial Leaders Assembly will commence, with two full days of plenaries, sessions, networking, and off-site visits on a broad range of camp topics. While each of the two established conferences will retain their unique goals and formats, the two will share an overall theme and venue.

As we gather for The Jewish Camp Summit, we acknowledge that we will be gathering, learning, and spending the next four days on the traditional homelands of the Anishinaabe, or the Council of the Three Fires: the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations. Many other Nations consider this area their traditional homeland, including the Myaamia, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Sac and Fox, Peoria, Kaskaskia, Wea, Kickapoo, and Mascouten. We pay our respects to all Native peoples who came before us and who continue to contribute to this land.