RSVP today for our Fall Partnership Breakfast happening next Tuesday, October 22nd from 7am -9am at the Marysville Historical Society. Come learn about the critical work GPI is doing to create access and opportunity for kids, youth, and yound adults living in rural and underinvested urban communities through in class, after school, summer camp, day adventure trips, and workforce development training programs! A delicious Farm 2 Table breakfast is planned! RSVP or make a gift at: https://lnkd.in/gWfB9MjH...
Glacier Peak Institute
Education Administration Programs
Darrington, Washington 877 followers
We empower youth to build resilient and sustainable rural communities and healthy ecosystems through STrEaMs!
About us
We empower youth to build resilient and sustainable rural communities and healthy ecosystems across the Glacier Peak region of Western Washington through innovative, action-based education programs integrating Science, Technology, recreation, Engineering, art, Mathematics, and skill-building (STrEaMs). GPI bridges the gap between classroom lessons and real world applications. Our interactive programs combine nature-based curriculum with learner led research and problem solving. We expand community by building relationships between schools, residents, tribes, universities, students, human service organizations, government agencies, businesses and their local ecosystems. By empowering students and community to identify, design and solve today’s problems, we all build interdependent resilience for posterity. Ecosystems spread beyond school district boundaries, opportunities often do not. While rural youth connect with the natural environment, urban youth have access to connect with the STEM industry. Through connecting the positive characteristics of urban and rural environments, we provide cultural and educational exchanges to find diverse solutions and increase opportunities for all. Programs programs introduced through personal connections via recreation, resources and research interpreted and expressed through the creative lens of art and solved with real-world skills by a partnership of stakeholder students, community members, tribes, institutions of higher education, businesses, nonprofits and government agencies. GPI is a direct response to tragedy. The deadly SR 530 Mudslide on March 22nd, 2014, forced the timber depressed Darrington community to examine its uncertain future. After the Mudslide, the community’s greatest assets were identified: youth, forests and recreation. In August of 2014, members of the community launched GPI programs to begin contributing to the ecological and economic regeneration of their community.
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- Industry
- Education Administration Programs
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Darrington, Washington
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2014
- Specialties
- environmental education, rural communities, program development, youth programs, urban - rural bridges, STEM, and outdoor education
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1405 Emens Ave N
Darrington, Washington 98241, US
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Join us in saying a Huge Thank You to Community Transit for sponsoring our Fall Partnership Breakfast! Community Transit is committed to creating access to vital STEM, after school, summer, and job training programs for kids, youth, and young adults living in rural and historically underinvested communities across Snohomish and Skagit Counties. There's still time to RSVP or make a gift at: https://lnkd.in/gWfB9MjH...
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FOX 13 Seattle covered the hardworking cone pickers working in the community. In Darrington, Glacier Peak Institute acts as the middleman between Mast Reforestation and Silvaseed, the end-users of the seeds being collected today. "There is generational knowledge," said Oak R. Rankin. "One thing we often forget about in Puget Sound as we’ve grown so much, is the value of local knowledge." If you support community and the outdoors, join us for our @Fall Partnership breakfast – Glacier Peak Institute on Oct. 22nd ( https://lnkd.in/gd7pAexc ). Thank you Noel Perry Kea J. Woodruff shayla henry Ben Alexandrowicz for your support and coordination Thank you Matthew Smith and Mike McCarty for your coverage and a great story!
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As part of your community, we invite you to join Glacier Peak Institute for a fall breakfast on October 22 in Marysville. If you support our work connecting youth, community and ecosystems (or more details) click the link below. 10+ years, 3,000+ programs, 100,000 hours of youth outdoors!
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At Glacier Peak Institute we are working to create the opportunities for communities and ecosystems to have a shared healthy future. In this video, one founder, Oak R. Rankin, is standing in a small forest his great grandparents w/ the Darrington community preserved for future generations to appreciate big trees. Forest Health and Community Health are entertwined. Much of the work on the forests to manage, restore, and recreate goes to distant communities. Meanwhile, the community were this forest is located is listed as the most distressed in the N. Puget Sound. This decline began 30 years ago, which at the same time the Northwest Forest Plan was implemented and it promised to "never forget the human and the economic dimensions of these problems." Our communities matter, and we need your help to include them in the future. In looking at successful land management strategies, including local communities are a vital component. Thank you to the partners working for equity and choosing inclusion, especially when it is a new perspective. We appreciate you.
Our forests are more than just trees—they're complex ecosystems shaped by generations of local stewardship and knowledge. As changes to the Northwest Forest Plan loom, rural advocate Oak Rankin shares powerful insights on the importance of collaboration and community wisdom in forest management. Watch now to hear why we must act quickly to protect our irreplaceable forests and the communities that depend on them.
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We are unique in bringing forest work back to under invested forest communities. What is that? Culverts (the tubes water flows through under roads) are a major factor contributing to mountain roads blowing out. We were inspecting culverts with our youth Forestry Institute on the USDA Forest Service. To build sustainable relationships with ecosystems and communities we invest in opportunity for the next generation to be involved in understanding the challenges and importance for a shared future. Thank you National Forest Foundation and these awesome team members! GPI is unique in bringing forest work back to under investmented forest communities.
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"Being able to work through those doubts and fears in the moment is super powerful! Watching these kids be timid at first, then realize that it is fine. Everyone needs to challenge themselves more. You grow the most when you are uncomfortable." "I did it!" Take a look into our programs investing in youth as covered by KING 5 Media Group! Thank you Mark Gunlogson and Mountain Madness for your professional services! https://lnkd.in/dtq-_-36 Thank you NATIONAL RECREATION FOUNDATION, INC for support!
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