Program Leaders Webinar Series

Partnerships�

Hosted by the

CAELI Community-Based Partner Innovation Hub

and AEOE

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March 26, 2024

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Facilitators�

Estrella Risinger, Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education (AEOE), CAELI Co-Chair

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Tracey Weiss, O’Neill Sea Odyssey

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Celeste Royer, Ten Strands

Association for Environmental & Outdoor Education (AEOE)

• Who we are & what we do:

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• We strengthen environmental education in CA
• We are a network of individuals and organizations across the state committed to environmental change
• We act as the California affiliate of NAAEE

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aeoe.org

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The California Environmental Literacy Initiative (CAELI) is a collective action network that seeks to ensure access to high-quality environment-based learning for all California’s TK–12 students.

Innovation Hubs

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• Community-Based Partners
• County Offices of Education
• Districts
• Equity
• Green Career Education
• Policy and Advocacy
• Professional Learning

The CAELI Theory of Action is intended to strike a balance between guiding the work of Innovation Hubs and being descriptive of emergent works from the hubs.

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Launched in 2021, each of the Innovation Hubs focuses on an important aspect of equitably scaling environmental literacy in schools, communities, and throughout the state. These hubs will grow the number and representation of collaborators directly involved with the initiative and accelerate the rate at which we advance student environmental literacy in California.

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CAELI Community-Based Partners Innovation Hub Goals�

• Convene a broad range of community-based partners across the state working in support of environmental literacy.
• Elevate the importance of environmental literacy CBPs in California.
• Strengthen the pathways between formal education and CBPs.
• Increase the capacity of CBPs to better serve students with high-quality, culturally relevant programs.
• Determine additional field-level priorities, which may include policy, funding coordination, tools and resource development, and innovations in environmental education to better address equity and inclusion and align with the needs of formal K–12 education.

https://ca-eli.org/innovation-hubs/community-based-partner/

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Goals for today’s webinar�

• Learn tips from two successful programs to develop innovative and meaningful school and community-based partnerships that strengthen organizational capacity, and increase access and reduce barriers to EE.
• Highlight partnerships in non-traditional areas (i.e. foster youth communities)
• Foster connections between providers from around the state

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Presenters�

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Mary Maranville SEEAG

Dr. Charli Kemp Change the Tune

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SEEAG’s PARTNERSHIPS - HOW to MAKE THE INTRODUCTION

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• Schools & Teachers:
• Introducing yourself to the school in person. Bring in a brochure.
• Growers:
• Farmer of the Month videos - Interviewed a diff farmer every month
• Donors, Foundations & Sponsors:
• Call them to introduce yourself.
• Write a well thought out letter of introduction.
• Set up a meet and greet.
• Go to fundraising professional events.
• Community Leaders/Expanders
• Join your local Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs

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KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE - (BE SMART ABOUT IT)

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• What is important to each partner?

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• Schools & Teachers:
• Aligned curriculum
• Cost-free programs
• Great youth educational experiences
• Growers:
• Building goodwill for agriculture in the local community
• Donors, Foundations and Sponsors: It’s all about alignment
• Knowing their giving priorities. They want to give away $.
• Impact - they like big numbers.
• Geographic scope
• Community Leaders/Expanders:
• They want to align with successful programs

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THE POWER OF MARKETING

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Promote, Promote, Promote - Getting the word out about your organization

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• Newsletter email blasts: Reaching everyone all at once
• Beneficiary testimonials: Videos are powerful
• Social media: Linkedin, Instagram, Facebook
• PR Firm: Distributes press releases to the media, including TV, newspapers
• Development events: Organize a fun event that gets the word out about your mission

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Dr. CHARLI KEMP

Closing

the Opportunity Gap

Our Mission

Change The Tune is a 501c3 nonprofit working to

close the opportunity gap for youth in underserved communities by creating holistic, radical, and transformational extended learning experiences in partnership with community organizations.

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We have three key strategies

in our approach to this work:

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• Create & Lead Programs that Students Love
• Train & Develop Organization & School Leaders
• Mobilize Communities to Invest in Innovative Learning Approaches

THE PROBLEM

= means that students from upper income families receive more than 6,000 more hours of learning.

6000 HOUR

LEARNING GAP

THE COLLECTIVE PURPOSE

PHYSIOLOGICAL NEEDS

SAFETY NEEDS

NEED FOR LOVE

& BELONGING

ESTEEM NEEDS

NEED TO KNOW & UNDERSTAND

AESTHETIC NEEDS

SELF ACTUALIZATION

TRANSCENDENCE

SELF ACTUALIZATION

COMMUNITY ACTUALIZATION

CULTURAL

PERPETUITY

First Nations Perspective

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs as informed by the Blackfoot Nation (ALTA)

Western Perspective

THE COLLECTIVE PURPOSE

Huitt, 2004; Blackstock, 2008; Wadsworth.

Western Perspective

Individual rights privileged.

One lifetime scope of analysis.

First Nations Perspective

Expansive concept of time and multiple dimensions of reality.

WHEEL HOLISTIC MODEL

Spiritual

Cognitive

Emotional

Physical

• Self & community actualization
• Role
• Identity
• Service
• Esteem

Spirituality & life purpose

• Food
• Water
• Housing
• Safety
• Security

Belonging & Relationship

FREEDOM:

A LIBERATORY

LEARNING WORLD

WE Co-CREATE & LEAD PROGRAMS

THAT COMMUNITIES LOVE

Culture & Needs of Students

Culture & Needs of Facilitators

Culture & Needs of Community

Content

Customized Programs

Informs

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Operating Principles

AFTERSCHOOL

PROGRAMS

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCES

SUMMER PROGRAMS

What we do

MULTIDISCIPLINARY CURRICULUM

Needs Assessment Based on School Goals and Student/ Family Interest

Sample Week In Our Model Magic Afterschool Program

PARTNERS

& FUNDERS

A FEW OF OUR PARTNERS

A BRIEF EXAMPLE

AUDIENCE CONNECTIONS:

HOW HAVE YOU BUILT PARTNERSHIPS?

ARE THERE ANY PARTNERS YOU WOULD RECOMMEND?

TIPS FOR BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS

UNDERSTAND YOUR GIFTS

BE OPEN TO THE STRUCTURE

BE PATIENT

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ABUNDANCE MINDSET

IDENTIFY THE GIFTS YOU NEED

ASK

WHO ARE YOUR EXISTING PARTNERS PARTNERS

To Learn more or connect:

Follow Us on Instagram @changethetune

Www.changethetune.org

Email: charlikemp@changetune.org

Break out Rooms

for Discussion

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Appreciations, Announcements, and Closing

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Thank you!