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However, there was an organization meeting held by Lina Beard on February 7, 1912 in Flushing, New York of a Girl Pioneers of America organization. [17] Camp Fire Girls of America was incorporated in Washington, D.C, as a national agency on March 17, 1912. [18] In late 1912, Juliette Gordon Low proposed that the Camp Fire Girls merge with her ...
Aspen Achievement Academy has been a subject of several media reports and works of popular culture: The 1999 book Shouting at the Sky: Troubled Teens and the Promise of the Wild by Gary Ferguson, ISBN 0-312-20008-0 recounts the author's experiences and observations during several months he spent in the wilderness with teens at Aspen Achievement Academy.
Future Business Leaders of America - a high school club founded in 1940 to build future business leaders. Girls For A Change - girls implementing social change projects, founded in 2002; Girls, Inc. - roots back to 1865 but has been national since 1945; Ignition - student to student high school mentoring program
The official NOLS logo [1]. NOLS is a non-profit outdoor education school based in the United States dedicated to teaching environmental ethics, technical outdoor skills, wilderness medicine, risk management and judgment, and leadership on extended wilderness expeditions and in traditional classrooms.
The Northern Tier National High Adventure Bases are a collection of high adventure bases in Minnesota, Ontario, and Manitoba. It is made up of Charles L. Sommers Canoe Base in Ely, Minnesota operating in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) and Quetico Provincial Park, Don Rogert Canoe Base in Atikokan, Ontario operating in Quetico Provincial Park, and Northern Expeditions Base in ...
Ascent, a 41-day wilderness camp in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, where many children were sent prior to enrollment before a second CEDU program, [45] and where participant's age varied, ranging from 13 to 20 years old; [44] Northwest Academy, a therapeutic boarding school founded in 1994 for 13-17 year olds located in the state of Idaho near the Selkirk ...
Mother Cabrini High School (Manhattan) The Girls' Commercial High School (became coeducational as Prospect_Heights_High_School and then closed) St. Michael Academy (Manhattan) Stella Maris High School (Queens) St. Peter's High School for Girls (Staten Island) Academy of Saint Joseph (Long Island; Coed K-8, Girls' 9-12)
Wilderness Inner-City Leadership Development (WILD) is located in the center of Seattle Chinatown/International District (CID). This non-profit youth program was found in 1997 by Stella Chao, who was a former executive director for International District Housing Alliance (IDHA).