My Nonprofit Reviews
Lynn Anderson
Review for Chewonki Foundation Inc, Wiscasset, ME, USA
Our 17 year old daughter spent 4 months of her junior year in high school at Maine Coast Semester, one of Chewonki's programs. During her time there she strengthened her resolve to be a good citizen of the earth, learned practical ways how to reduce her carbon footprint and to take techology to others to spread the word of reducing pollution...it also exposed to her to eating local, knowing where her food comes from, and having concern for the treatment of animals. Her experience there has made her to want to double major in college...International Relations and Enviromental Studies - Policy. In Feb 2009 she joined 21 (of 40) of her fellow MSC 41 group to attend PowerShift in Washington and lobby on behalf of enegry changes (she said there were so many past MCSers there they had their own caucus. Speaking to the airport shuttle owner once he stated "those Chewonki kids will change the world". A great endoursement if I ever heard one! Our daughter has been so stronly affected by her experience at Chewonki, her essays for all college applications will focus on her time there.
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I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
how my daughter lives her life and her involment in the community to become more "green".
If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...
...I could not run this organization.
What I've enjoyed the most about my experience with this nonprofit is...
witnessing first hand the personal growth of my child.
The kinds of staff and volunteers that I met were...
all professionals and passionate about there areas of expertise.
If this organization had 10 million bucks, it could...
bring more childern to their facilites, perhaps start another type of program in another part of the country, spend more money on the techologies they are developing (biodisel, solar etc). They could also purchase more land to insure conservation.
Ways to make it better...
Parents weekend could have been for a week!
In my opinion, the biggest challenges facing this organization are...
high schoolers being aware of this type of semester school - marketing is expensive and their resources are limited.
One thing I'd also say is that...
Thank you , thank you.
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2008
