Text Box: we’ll have a Leadership-in-Training program for 15-17 year olds. These teens will have a chance to gain important leadership skills while helping out their head counselors. The camp instructor staff is coming together quickly…Naturalists from the Pescadero Valley are knocking down my door! Troy Smith and Erin Purtell will be back this summer to expand the wilderness program they offered last year. Their sessions will include survival skills, plant identification, basket making, and camping & backpacking. Text Box: Text Box: Sofas for the meeting rooms Building materials (used or new!) for the new SVOS garden house A used but dependable vehicle High quality raingear A wood stove for a staff yurt Nice furniture for teacher housing PC compatible color printer Spotting scopes and binoculars Text Box: As always, we are constantly looking for ways to improve our program. To this end, we have compiled this wish list. See any items that you might be able to help us acquire? Give a call! A Modular office or classroom for the SVOS site (boy, are we cramped here!) PC (Pentium II or better, 48+ MB Ram) Garden tools Office furniture (desks and chairs) Text Box: Summer Camp, cont’d. Text Box: Wish List Text Box: We would like to extend a tremendous Thank You to all the generosity the following groups have shown towards ENH programs. Sierra Club Foundation Bear Gulch Foundation Bank of America Foundation Sierra Singles of the Sierra Club: Loma Prieta Chapter The North Face, Berkeley REI, Inc. Ultramar Refineries Patagonia Santa Cruz The Home Depot Weyerhaeuser, Inc. ENH gladly, nay, eagerly accepts contributions and donations toward our scholarship fund and/or capital improvements. Text Box: The INNW Fund Text Box: One of the problems non-profits face as they grow is that their infrastructure often does not keep pace with the growth of their programs. Such has been the case with ENH. However, we have recently received a huge gift from the INNW Fund, a non-profit foundation, in the form of consultants who are reviewing and updating our bylaws, articles of incorporation, bookkeeping system and personnel manuals. They are also working with our board to establish committees and protocols. It is all a huge task, but the final goal is a worthy one—to help ENH establish a $1.5 million dollar endowment fund that will provide $70,000 in annual outdoor education scholarships for economically disadvantaged students. We say this a lot these days: “Thank You, INNW Fund!”

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Text Box: The SVOS chickens will be laying eggs for the students' breakfasts by springtime! Text Box: Donors Text Box: The ENH Summer Camp is a great opportunity for high school students to enhance their leadership experience.

So we’re looking forward to conducting outdoor education with a twist this July & August…adding hot & sunny weather, a pool, sports, games, off-site adventures, and the general summer camp feel to a program that already keeps kids asking for more.  And, of course, if you know anyone who might want to join us this summer, give a call!

              -Megan

 

Megan Phillips is the Director of the new ENH Summer Camp. Camp will run weekly from July 14th-August 10th, 2002. For more information, please contact her at (650 )879-0608.