Earth Partnership promotes native habitat restoration as a process for community learning and land stewardship
Learning through stewardship:
- Improves educational opportunities for all learners
- Builds meaningful relationships in human communities and with natural communities
- Promotes ecological literacy
- Takes action to heal the land
- Strengthens resilience to environmental and climatic challenges
- Fosters hope in young people and adults
How Earth Partnership Works
Earth Partnership collaborates with diverse communities to create vibrant outdoor learning spaces using a curriculum-based 10-step ecological restoration process. Through facilitated relationship-building and dialogue, communities identify their shared stewardship vision and the ways EP can help make it a reality.
Restoration education training is made available to a variety of learners through teacher professional development, youth programming, and family and community engagement.
Mission
To engage educators and learners of all ages and backgrounds in community-based ecological restoration for healthy environments.
Vision
For communities across the world to be actively engaged in ecological restoration that connects people to the land and each other through a commitment to stewardship.
News
Authentic Intellectual Work joins Earth Partnership for new Urban IAS initiative
Urban IAS, currently being piloted in Madison, works to improve educators’ capacity to teach to Wisconsin American Indian Studies/Act 31 requirements in accurate and authentic ways. The program uses the EP-IAS model to ground learning …
Who Owns Science? Panel including EP partners discusses at WI Science Festival
The panel on representation and inclusion in scientific fields included EP Director Cheryl Bauer-Armstrong and Bad River IAS Coordinator Lori Lemieux.
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Partner Spotlight
Thank you to our funders!
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Current Funders
- National Science Foundation
- US Environmental Protection Agency
- Wisconsin ESSA Improving Teacher Quality Program
- Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment
- Sand County Foundation
- Private donations
Previous Funders
- Morgridge Center for Public Service
- Wisconsin Environmental Education Board
- Nuzum – Kickapoo Valley Restoration Fund
- NOAA Wisconsin Sea Grant
- Institute of Museum and Library Services
- US Environmental Protection Agency – Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Precollege Education Program
- USDA Forest Service – More Kids in the Woods Program
- UW Center for Biology Education
- The Patrick and Anna M. Cudahy Fund
- Excel Energy
- US Fish and Wildlife Service – Schoolyard Strategic Assessment and Action Plan
- WI Coastal Management Program
- Friends of the UW–Madison Arboretum
Please help support Earth Partnership!
Donations can be made online or via check.
