Announcing: Natural Service Network!

Join the Natural Service Network. Together we will:

• inspire, cultivate, and nourish a life-long commitment to nature-based play and recreation in people of all ages, especially children and youth

• physically enhance, maintain, and  restore natural areas

• bring high visibility to nature-based inter-generational service projects

STEP ONE: PLAN

PLANT native trees or wildflowers; HELP with trail clearing, invasive plant removal, river, stream or beach cleanup; HOST a recycling event; BUILD bat boxes, bird houses and bird feeders; CREATE a butterfly garden or a wild zone.

STEP TWO: ENGAGE

REACH OUT to others in your community and encourage them to participate.

STEP THREE: INSPIRE

Tell us about your project.  Share it on C&NN Connect –  your STORIES, PHOTOS and LINKS just might inspire someone else!
Founding Sponsors:
US Fish & Wildlife Service and REI Inc.

US Fish and Wildlife Service

PLAN, ENGAGE, INSPIRE.

Sign up on C&NN Connect and Join the Natural Service Network.

Natural Leaders                         Network

Let’s G.O.!

PLAY. SERVE. CELEBRATE.

A Special Invitation from the Natural Leaders Network:

Plan your natural service day in April and support this youth-led campaign.

Let’s G.O.! (Let’s Get Outside) provides a unique opportunity to participate in natural service and support a youth-led, month-long campaign to inspire people of all ages, from all walks of life to Get Outside.

“There is an energy within us…can you feel it?  It is in our genes. Generation after generation has ventured into the unknown with that energy. We are a movement that celebrates every day the sun rises and sets, every day a child digs into dirt or builds the first mud pie. Let this not be the last generation that celebrates time outdoors and Let’s G.O.! Get Outside!” – Juan Martinez, Natural Leaders Coordinator

The Let’s G.O.! Tool Kit will be available online February 5, 2011.

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Free Webinar- Outdoor Learning for Parents

Saturday July 11th, 2010

Possibility Parenting, run and created by Dr. DeBored has made available Online Sessions for parents who are looking for new ways to connect with their kids.

This free resource that is provided by Possibility Parenting, provides a 30-minute introductory webinar on “What to do for Fun outdoors with Kids” on July 14th at 4PM (EST).

If you are interested in this quick, easy way to gather new ideas for you, your kids and the great outdoors, go and sign up here!

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OAK- Outdoors Alliance For Kids

June 24, 2010

NCCAN! is proud to highlight one of their affiliates, OAK,  through the Children and Nature Network.

Outdoors Alliance for Kids Established to Connect Children and Families with the Great Outdoors

First Lady’s Let’s Move campaign introduces outdoors component as organizations unite.

Washington, DC—As First Lady Michelle Obama unveiled the Let’s Move OUTSIDE initiative today in Las Vegas, expanding her campaign to solve childhood obesity, a broad coalition representing the business and non-profit communities announced a national strategic partnership called the Outdoors Alliance for Kids (OAK). OAK brings together the YMCA of the USA, REI, Sierra Club, National Wildlife Federation, Izaak Walton League of America, The Outdoor Foundation, National Recreation and Park Association and the Children & Nature Network, collectively representing over 30 million members, to address the growing divide between children and families and the natural world.

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