My Nonprofit Reviews
jeancheney
Review for Chewonki Foundation Inc, Wiscasset, ME, USA
My daughter Kate attended Maine Coast Semester at Chewonki and was profoundly affected by her experience. Chewonki's interdisplinary approach to education helps all students see that, like nature and the world wide web, knowledge is intervoven and learning is best approached not by isolating disciplines but by interconnecting them. Maine Coast Semester's curriculum does just that. With her classmates at Berkeley's Masters in Journalism school a couple of years ago, Kate won a national award for her radio reporting on global warming--her story was on Mt. Kilimanjaro. Her passion for the environment and environmental issues was ignited, at least in part, by the teachers and experiences she had at Chewonki.
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I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
the growth of my daughter
If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...
Continue it on its present path.
What I've enjoyed the most about my experience with this nonprofit is...
Their philosophy is consistent with the direction I think education should take.
The kinds of staff and volunteers that I met were...
Outstanding
If this organization had 10 million bucks, it could...
Create other schools like Maine Coast Semester around the country
Ways to make it better...
I had had more contact with the school
In my opinion, the biggest challenges facing this organization are...
Financial
One thing I'd also say is that...
Too few people know of the work of Chewonki.
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2008
