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Staff Spotlight 2025

Staff Spotlight 2025 | Camp Fire Alaska

Camp Fire Alaska’s Staff Spotlight 2025 recognizes employees who demonstrate alignment with our mission, key values, and ideals. Staff Spotlight March 2025 March 2025’s Staff Spotlight features two incredible employees: Senior Site Directors Reese Cameron and Nicole “Nikki” Gilliland. Read… Read More >

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Absolutely Incredible Kid Day 2025

Kids are our future — the most precious resource we have! Daily, youth do amazing things. For example, their unique approach to problem solving leverages imagination and curiosity, leading them to discover insightful — and often overlooked — solutions. At… Read More >

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National Wildlife Refuge System Visits Camp Fire Alaska

National Wildlife Refuge System Visits Camp Fire Alaksa

    Thinking About Nearby Wildlife  “What could it mean if we spot moose and wolf tracks in the same area?” asked Helen Strackeljahn of the National Wildlife Refuge System during her visit to Camp Fire Alaska. Briefly, the room… Read More >

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Fall 2025-26 Registration Open Now

Hello Camp Fire Families, Registration for the 2025-2026 school year is now open for all Camp Fire sites. This includes after school programs, half days, full days, as well as winter and spring break. Camp Fire’s monthly after school fees… Read More >

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Rewind 2024

Rewind 2024 - Camp Fire's top 12 moments of 2024 | Camp Fire Alaska | Graphic featuring a young girl in braids walking to a natural lake. Another child already plays in the water in an inflatable tube. In the distance, mountains can be seen.

  Click here or the image below to view the 2024 Rewind now!     Did you enjoy our Rewind 2024? Check out our other recent blog posts, “Storytelling Through the Camera Lens” and December’s “Staff Spotlight 2024” entry! In… Read More >

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Storytelling Through the Camera Lens

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One of Camp Fire Alaska’s goals this year was to increase the quality of our storytelling content through well-captured images. To accomplish this, we hired Nicole Richmond, a professional photographer with years of experience capturing single and group portraits. Throughout… Read More >

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Best of Alaska: Camp Fire Wins Big

Camp Fire Alaska - Graphic | Best of Alaska - Camp Fire Wins Big

  This year, Camp Fire won big at the Anchorage Daily News Best of Alaska contest. This ranked competition has Alaskans vote for their favorite local businesses. Thanks to your votes,  Camp Fire won in two categories – Platinum for… Read More >

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The Camp Fire Alaska main office operates on the ancestral land of the Dena’ina people. Camp Fire Alaska runs programing on the lands of the Athabascan, Yup’ik, Chup’ik, Sougpiaq, and Inupiaq peoples. We value and thank them for their current and historic commitment to and protection of this land. We pledge to assist, in partnership, in the environmental stewardship of these lands. We strive to learn more about the history of the Native peoples of Alaska and the historic trauma they have suffered. We commit to being an active ally through activities, actions, and organizational decisions and practices. We understand that this is a dynamic process through which our Land Acknowledgement practices, and statement will evolve as we receive feedback from tribal partners and acquire a deeper understanding of and from the Native peoples of Alaska..  (v2)