Giving back to the community and to those in need is a value at all the Featured Camps listed on PremierCamps. PremierCamps campers and staff take part in many different philanthropic events throughout the summer. Our Featured Camps believe that giving back is an important part of the camp community, and community service projects reflect the unique spirit of camp.

In the fall of 2006, a group of PremierCamps facilities personnel attended an annual meeting in Freeport, Maine. After a day of meetings and touring the extensive renovations done at Camp Cobbossee for boys, the group enbarked on a community service project renovating two area homes in conjunction with Habitat for Humanity.

The projects received front page coverage in the local newspaper. 

The American Camp Association (ACA) is a community of camp professionals who, for nearly 100 years, have joined together to share knowledge and experience and to set standards to ensure the quality of camp programs. The ACA is a leading authority in childhood development, and its mission is to "preserve, promote and improve the camp experience."

Summer camp teaches skills in a variety of disciplines—sports, the arts, business, computers, and the like. But the endurance of the summer camp phenomenon relates not to the skills that the experience teaches, but to the values and traits of character that it imparts. A camp experience teaches children to work together more cooperatively, to resolve conflicts more effectively, to assume greater responsibility, and to become more self-reliant and self-confident. In the best, most enduring camps, skill acquisition is simply another means to strengthen children's character development. These intangible benefits, while not exclusive to traditional camps, are most prevalent in the best traditional overnight and day camps.