Leadership Grant

Connecting Families with Nature, Year 2

20,000 awarded to Children & Nature Network in

To continue Sara St. Antoine's consulting role as the organization expands and refines its outreach materials, and to allow Sara to take on a greater range of writing, editing and evaluative responsibilities.  Sara will continue to take the lead on refining, updating and editing the family activities resources to keep them timely and relevant, but she will also contribute to the development and dissemination of a national survey on the public’s attitudes towards children and nature.  In addition, Sara will begin writing a weekly blog that will appear prominently on the C&NN website in 2010.  Sara has also facilitated a relationship between C&NN and WGBH, the Boston-area public television station, in which C&NN will play an advisory role on a television show being developed to teach kids about systems thinking and the natural world.