COORDINATORS

The Green Schools Alliance (GSA) is a global peer-to-peer network of “schools guiding schools,” working together to address environmental and climate challenges through sharing and implementing sustainable, energy-smart best practices, and connecting students to nature.

The National Conservation Training Center (NCTC) environmental mission is to seek and employ sustainable practices and provide a wide scope of environmentally friendly services and products.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) mission is to work with others, to conserve, protect and enhance fish, wildlife, and plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people. We are the only agency of the U.S. Government with that primary mission. The Service helps protect a healthy environment for people, fish and wildlife, and helps Americans conserve and enjoy the outdoors and our living treasures.

PARTNERS

  Chewonki Semester School provides a challenging academic program for a small number of highly motivated and academically capable students. At Chewonki, students live on a 400-acre peninsula, and connect to the natural world while linking practical experiences to the intellectual work of academic pursuits -- exploring rocky intertidal zones and sandy shores or snowshoe alongside moose tracks, kayak to Hungry Island, or scale Mt. Katahdin.

The Conserve School inspires young people to environmental stewardship through academics and engagement with the forests, lakes, and wildlife of Lowenwood. Conserve School students become part of a community that heightens their sense of identity and self-worth and imparts the confidence they need to go forward and make a difference, not only as stewards of the environment, but also as stewards of their own destinies.

Children & Nature Network is leading a movement to connect all children, their families and communities to nature through innovative ideas, evidence-based resources and tools, broad-based collaboration and support of grassroots leadership.

Friends of The National Conservation Training Center actively supports the mission of the National Conservation Training Center by supporting their community outreach programs and extending the reach of this world-class facility.

North American Association For Environmental Education (NAAEE) is the membership association for all who help others learn about the environment.  NAAEE’s annual conference is the premier environmental education gathering in North America. Along with the 9th Annual Research Symposium, the conference offers hundreds of leading edge presentations that explore the practice and profession of environmental education.

National Environemental Education Foundation (NEEF) Chartered by Congress in 1990 to advance environmental knowledge, NEEF provides knowledge to trusted professionals who, with their credibility, amplify messages to national audiences to solve everyday environmental problems. Together, we generate lasting positive change.

National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), founded in 1944, is the largest organization in the world committed to promoting excellence and innovation in science teaching and learning for all. NSTA's current membership of 60,000 includes science teachers, science supervisors, administrators, scientists, business and industry representatives, and others involved in and committed to science education.

The Potomac Valley Audubon Society (PVAS) offers a wide range of programs and activities that are aimed at promoting greater understanding and appreciation of the natural world for youth, adults, and families such as field trips to natural areas, summer camps, monthly lectures, school programs and many others.

Rivanna Natural Designs started in 2001 with a simple objective: to create green jobs for refugees and others in our community who needed safe, meaningful, and rewarding employment creating awards and plaques that minimize their environmental impact.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Retirees Association's main purpose is to recognize and preserve the rich history of the U.S. FWS and the many contributions of its present and past employees, to foster the preservation and use of the historical treasures, documents, objects and information of the Service’s unique history and values in natural resource conservation, and to involve present and past employees in the history and heritage of the Fish and Wildlife Service.

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