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Community-Based Partner Innovation Hub

The CAELI Community-Based Partner Innovation Hub works to strengthen and engage informal and nonformal providers around a unified approach to better address equity and inclusion and align with the needs of formal K-12 education to elevate environmental literacy across the state.

Learn more about our:

GOALS

  • Convene a broad range of community-based partners across the state working in support of environmental literacy.
  • Elevate the importance of environmental literacy CBPs in California.
  • Strengthen the pathways between formal education and CBPs.
  • Increase the capacity of CBPs to better serve students with high-quality, culturally relevant programs.
  • Determine additional field-level priorities to better address equity and inclusion and align with the needs of formal K–12 education.

PROJECTS & WORKING GROUPS

  • CBP Network Leaders Community of Practice: Bring together CBP network leaders from around the state to engage in information sharing that promotes collaboration, program support, and program delivery to more students.
  • CBP Program Leaders Webinar Series: Provide professional development and regular networking opportunities for EE provider program leaders. Opportunity to showcase leading CBP organizations in CA to demonstrate models of effective and culturally-relevant EE programming.
  • Program Leaders Convenings: Provide opportunities for in-person attendance at two statewide conferences to build new networks and connections, collaborate on joint projects, and work together to advance environmental literacy.

RESOURCES

  • Community-Based Partner Network Toolkit developed by the COE Innovation Hub
  • CAELI Partner Portal supported by Green Guardians
  • Association for Environmental & Outdoor Education (AEOE)

Co-Leaders

Monique Streit

South Yuba River Citizen’s League

Tracey Weiss

O’Neill Sea Odyssey

Members

Celeste Royer

Ten Strands

Christina Emmett

Hidden Villa

Diego Ortiz

The Nature Conservancy, Dangermond Preserve

Dwain Wilson

Wildwoods Foundation

Estrella Risinger

Association for Environmental & Outdoor Education

Linda Chilton

USC Sea Grant

Marie Bobias

Walden West Outdoor School

Megan Jakubowski

NatureBridge

Sarah Ranney

Sierra Club Climate Literacy Committee

Stephanie Springer

NatureBridge

Tara Fuad

San Diego Children and Nature

Yarib Dheming

Orange County Department of Education

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