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- EIN 11-2656357
- (510) 601-7203
- 230 Grand Avenue Oakland CA 94610-4589 USA
- www.ncse.com
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Biological & Life Sciences
Mission: The national center for science education promotes and defends accurate and effective science education, because everyone deserves to engage with the evidence. Ncse works to ensure evidence-based science, particularly as it relates to evolution and climate change, is taught in public school science classrooms.
Programs: Outreach and education: ncse provided information to teachers, parents, the press and the general public related to creation/evolution and climate change controversies. Ncse staff members were quoted in stories and articles in major media outlets. Staff delivered lectures, workshops, and presentations. Ncse exhibited at several annual meetings of national and state scientific and educational societies. The quarterly print newsletter, reports of ncse was distributed to 4,000 homes. Ncse's weekly informational e-blast had 6,000 subscribers. In 2017, ncse had more than 200,000 facebook fans and 10,000 twitter followers.
community engagement: the clubs provided an infrastructure for local volunteers to bring accessible climate change and evolution activities to community events, normalizing discussion of the topics. In 2017, 13 science booster clubs reached 126,000 people. As an extension of the science booster clubs, ncse ran two summer science camps in iowa and maryland and offered 10 micro-grants in six states to fund basic science supplies.
teacher support: ncse developed and launched a teacher ambassador program that provides training and resources educators need to teach the topics of evolution and climate change even when the risk of community opposition is high. Ncse also provided resources and support to the 6,000 subscribers of a teacher-focused monthly newsletter.