2020 Annual Giving Campaign

Hi all! The outdoors have been instrumental in our family's mental and physical health, especially in Corona times. This rejuvenation from the outdoors is now a part of my professional work as I enliven literacy instruction with joy from the outdoors. Students in public schools deserve to have time outside! Especially in times of Covid and beyond, children will need time in nature to restore, play, and learn.

This year I joined the board of the Minnesota Association for Environmental Education, a wonderful organization that works to connect educators with resources for environmental education. Recently we collaborated on the Teach Outdoors! Minnesota website to help educators move instruction outside. MAEE also provides an EE portal with resources for educators, a job board, and an annual, local Minnesota EE conference.  This year the conference was completely virtual and offered citizen science projects that educators could take directly to their students. All of our programming is run by a volunteer board and our part-time Executive Director.

Thank you for considering a donation to MAEE! Any amount you give will bring us closer to our goal. If you have a past experience that helped shape your love for and commitment to our planet, please consider paying it forward by supporting MAEE’s mission and work.