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Report from the Chair

It is an exciting and a challenging time in the history of our organization. Yosemite National Institutes (YNI) has tremendous opportunities to advance our mission over the next few years and to solidify the future of YNI. The general public is becoming increasingly aware of the importance of environmental education in addressing environmental challenges. The global agenda is shifting towards environmental stewardship, and our programs provide a roadmap. Our partnership with the National Park Service could not be stronger and forms the basis for our ongoing success. We are looking forward to expanding this partnership through a strategic goal to fulfill our mission nationally, together with the Park Service.

There are also tremendous challenges. Children are becoming increasingly isolated from the natural world. As a result, YNI’s outreach to a larger and more diverse population of childrenhas become even more critical. This will be accomplished through ambitious fundraising to provide scholarships and innovative campus projects, including a marine research station for Olympic Park Institute, a renovated campus in the Marin Headlands that incorporates the cultural and natural history into the landscape, and a new, state-of-the-art educational facility and dorm for Yosemite Institute. With our core educational framework in mind, each project will serve as a model and teaching tool for sense of place, interconnections and stewardship.

We invite you to visit us. Join our educators and students and experience the wonder of nature’s classroom. These experiences for our students are transformative. Join with us in our quest to provide environmental education to all children, to change their lives and the world in which we live.


- Stephen Lockhart, M.D., Ph.D., Chair, Yosemite National Institutes
 

2006-2007 Donors and Finances

Generous donors, dedicated teachers, and incredible staff make Yosemite National Institutes' programs some of the best in the National Park Service. View the details in Yosemite National Institutes' 2006 - 2007 list of donors and PDF financial statement.

Jovanna, a seventh-grade student from Santa Ana, California, wrote a thank-you note for her trip that said, When I am 35 years old, I am going to remember the biggest hike to Nevada Falls, that I saw a bear that was not in a zoo, and that I had the best time ever.

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