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CNATURENET

AKA Children & Nature Network (C&NN)

Santa Fe, NM

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CNATURENET

Also Known As:: Children & Nature Network (C&NN)
Physical Address:: Santa Fe, NM 87508
EIN:: 14-1959018
Web URL:: www.childrenandnatur...
Blog URL:: www.childrenandnatur...
Leadership:: Dr. Cheryl Charles, Ph.D.

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Fiscal Year Starting: Jan 1, 2011
Fiscal Year Ending: Dec 31, 2011

Revenue
Total Revenue	$780,987

Expenses
Total Expenses	$478,131

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CNATURENET

Also Known As:: Children & Nature Network (C&NN)
Physical Address:: Santa Fe, NM 87508
EIN:: 14-1959018
Web URL:: www.childrenandnatur...
Blog URL:: www.childrenandnatur...
NTEE Category:: B Educational Institutions; B01 Alliance/Advocacy Organizations; O Youth Development; O01 Alliance/Advocacy Organizations; C Environmental Quality Protection, Beautification; C60 Environmental Education and Outdoor Survival Programs
Year Founded:: 2007
Ruling Year:: 2007

Mission Statement

The mission of the Children & Nature Network (C&NN) is to lead the movement connecting all children, their families and communities to nature through innovative ideas, evidence-based resources and tools, broad-based collaboration, and support of grassroots leadership.

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Impact Summary from the Nonprofit

C&NN’s track record of accomplishments is substantial: fostering and supporting a burgeoning national and international grassroots movement; providing inspiring and effective thought leadership in support of that movement; developing original seminal reports; synthesizing and promoting related research; and providing non-partisan leadership and a vision of a world that is better for children and their families, now and in the future. C&NN has grown this movement from a handful of campaigns in 2006 to more than 100 campaigns in 44 states involving diverse organizations and social sectors. Approximately 3 million children and youth were engaged in nature-based activities during 2011 through C&NN campaigns, up from 1 million in 2009, with a total of 8 MILLION CHILDREN AND YOUTH getting outdoors in nature with the help of C&NN in 2009-2012. In the past two years, up to 3,000 new nature and place-based opportunities for children have been established in areas served by grassroots initiatives supported by C&NN, including community gardens for children, nature clubs for families, natural play areas, neighborhood parks, school gardens, and trails.

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Leadership

Dr. Cheryl Charles, Ph.D.

Profile:

Cheryl Charles, Ph.D., President, CEO, and co-founder of C&NN, is an innovator, entrepreneur, author, and educator who has been instrumental in developing the worldwide movement to reconnect children and nature. She is the former founding national director of Project Learning Tree and Project WILD, the two most widely used environment education programs for K-12 educators in North America. Cheryl is also Managing Partner of Hawksong Associates (www.hawksongassociates.com), a consulting firm specializing in organizational development and diffusion of innovation. Cheryl’s most recent book, with her late husband, Bob Samples, is Coming Home: Community, Creativity and Consciousness (2004). Cheryl has a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Washington with a specialty in factors affecting the achievement of minority youth. She speaks internationally about the benefits of nature to children.

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Program: Natural Leaders Network

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Population Served:: Children and Youth (infants - 19 years.); Poor/Economically Disadvantaged, Indigent, General

Program Description:

15-29 year-olds come together in this program, many of whom are from low-income communities and, in turn, engage and mentor younger children in nature-based experiences that are often service-oriented.

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Program: Natural Teachers Network

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Population Served:: Children and Youth (infants - 19 years.); Adults; Aging/Elderly/Senior Citizens

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This program encourages all teachers to bring nature into the classroom and the classroom into nature, providing them with resources, support and mentoring. 

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Program: Nature Rocks

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Population Served:: Children and Youth (infants - 19 years.); Adults; Aging/Elderly/Senior Citizens

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Designed especially to give parents and other caregivers great ideas of fun and healthy things to do in nature through the seasons and throughout the country.

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Program: Natural Families Networks

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Population Served:: Children and Youth (infants - 19 years.); Adults; Aging/Elderly/Senior Citizens

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Families come together for nature-based experiences which instill confidence and nourish family bonding.

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Program: Grassroots Campaigns & Initiatives

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Population Served:: Children and Youth (infants - 19 years.); Adults; Aging/Elderly/Senior Citizens

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These initiatives are critical to the children and nature movement, which has grown from a handful of city, state and regional campaigns in 2006 to more than 80 initiatives involving thousands of passionately committed volunteers of all ages in more than 80 cities, states and nations in 2010.  Leaders of these collaboratives reported engaging approximately 1 million participants in 2009.  Examples include Get Outdoors Anchorage, Texas' Life's Better Outside and New Hampshire's Children in Nature  Coalition.

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