 Foundation logo showing the osprey mascot | |
| Formation | 1915 |
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| Type | Non-profit |
| Headquarters | Wiscasset, Maine, United States |
| Coordinates | 43°57′0″N70°42′10″W / 43.95000°N 70.70278°W |
| Services | Educational programs |
| Website | www |
The Chewonki Foundation is a non-profit institution in Wiscasset, Maine, which runs educational programs with an environmental focus.
Founded in 1915 as a summer camp for boys, the Foundation now runs a four-month high school program—Maine Coast Semester at Chewonki, boys and girls summer camp programs, wilderness trips for teenagers and families, an organic farm, traveling natural history programs where non-releasable wildlife are brought to schools and libraries, as well as week-long environmental education programs for school groups around New England.
The Chewonki Foundation is located on a 400-acre (1.6 km2) peninsula between Westport Island and the town of Woolwich. The peninsula protrudes into Montsweag Bay. The foundation is also a steward of the former Debsconeag Lake camps on Fourth Debsconeag Lake, and the owners of the public Big Eddy Campground off the Golden Road. With their off-site, program-specific properties, Chewonki took possession of several islands in Mid-Coast Maine to keep them available for public access. [1]
Penikese Island is a 75-acre (0.117 sq mi) island off the coast of Massachusetts, United States, in Buzzards Bay. It is one of the Elizabeth Islands, which make up the town of Gosnold, Massachusetts. Penikese is located near the west end of the Elizabeth island chain.
The Alaska Peninsula is a peninsula extending about 497 mi (800 km) to the southwest from the mainland of Alaska and ending in the Aleutian Islands. The peninsula separates the Pacific Ocean from Bristol Bay, an arm of the Bering Sea.
The Keewaydin Foundation is an organization that manages a number of summer canoe camps based in Ontario and Vermont, as well as an environmental educational center. In Algonquin, Keewaydin is the Northwest wind, considered to be the bearer of good fortune and fair weather.
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Samoset Council is a Boy Scout council headquartered in Rhinelander, Wisconsin that serves north central Wisconsin. Founded in 1920, the council gets its name from an early Boy Scout camp in the Town of Harrison named Camp Sam-O-Set. The council is served by Tom Kita Chara Lodge of the Order of the Arrow.
Hog Island is an island spanning 330 acres (130 ha) located in Muscongus Bay in Bremen, Maine, United States at the end of Keene Neck Road. It is a part of the Todd Wildlife Sanctuary, which includes an additional 30 acres (12 ha) on the mainland across from the island, as well as the current home to the Audubon Camp in Maine operated by the Seabird Restoration Program of the National Audubon Society.
Camp Androscoggin is an all-boys summer camp in Wayne, Maine, and one of the oldest in the state. It is ACA accredited. It was founded in 1907 by Edward M. Healy, a Department Head at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Healy became President of the American Camping Association (ACA) in 1916 shortly before his death.
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Montsweag Bay is a small brackish water bay near Wiscasset, Maine. It connects to Hockomock Bay, which connects with many more bays and eventually to the Atlantic Ocean. The peninsula known as Chewonki Neck juts out into the bay between Westport Island and the town of Woolwich and is the home of the Chewonki Foundation.
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Camp O-AT-KA is a non-profit summer camp for boys in East Sebago, Maine, on the western shore of Sebago Lake. Founded in 1906 by Rev. Ernest Joseph Dennen of Lynn, Massachusetts, it is to date the oldest continuously running summer camp in the United States. It began its life as the summer camp of the Order of Sir Galahad, an Episcopal church organization founded by Dennen in 1896. Originally founded as an explicitly Episcopal camp, O-AT-KA allowed Jewish campers as well. In the modern period, it is open to campers of all backgrounds. It runs as a traditional summer camp for boys aged 7-16 and is accredited with the American Camp Association.
The Maine Land Trust Network promotes discussion among the eighty land trusts in Maine, United States. It was established in 1995.
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