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
Upcoming IAS Webinar: Culturally Responsive Research Relationships
Good Relatives?: Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Tribal Nation Implications for Addressing the Federal Evidence-Based Policy Making Act of 2018 in Indian Country Wednesday, 3/31/2021 1-2:30PM Presenter Dr. Bowman will discuss implications for what “counts” as …
February 26, 2021Register for Urban IAS Virtual Institute: July 6 – 9, 2021
Urban IAS Virtual Institute continues in its third year. The Institute focuses on diverse Native American experiences in an urban context. Since the University of Wisconsin-Madison resides on the ancestral and contemporary lands of the Ho-Chunk Nation we will integrate place-based Ho-Chunk teachings.
February 11, 2021Register for IAS Intertribal Virtual Institute: June 28 – July 2, 2021
IAS Intertribal Virtual Institute in collaboration with Bad River, Red Cliff, Lac du Flambeau, Ho-Chunk Nations, and Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe College and College of Menominee Nation. Participants will meet and learn from six Native Nations in Wisconsin.
February 11, 2021IAS Institutes are virtual for 2021
Earth Partnership and our Partners have decided that it would be best to offer virtual programming for the summer of 2021.
February 11, 2021Welcome Rachel Byington
Earth Partnership welcomes Rachel Byington as an official team member! She now serves as the Tribal Youth and Community Liaison.
February 11, 2021- More News
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Thank you to our funders:
Current:
- National Science Foundation
- Spencer Foundation
- USDA Forest Service/National Institute of Food and Agriculture
- UW-Madison School of Education/Grand Challenges
- Private donations
Previous
US Environmental Protection Agency; Wisconsin ESSA Improving Teacher Quality Program; Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment; Sand County Foundation; Morgridge Center for Public Service; Wisconsin Environmental Education Board; Nuzum – Kickapoo Valley Restoration Fund; NOAA Wisconsin Sea Grant; NOAA Bay Watershed Education and Training; 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