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Project Overview

The NAAEE affiliates in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Wisconsin are working collaboratively to define the strengths, resources, and needs of the environmental education community throughout the Midwest. This landscape analysis will help our affiliates to identify priorities for serving EE providers and learners across the region and opportunities to collaborate on meeting those needs.

Project Expected Outcomes

By collecting data on current EE practices throughout the Midwest, we expect to better understand where there are gaps in access to quality environmental education, enabling us to work toward improving equitable access and more effectively reaching underserved audiences with EE services. The data collected through this process will also allow for a better understanding of the financial status and needs of EE service providers, the agency and partner resources available to EE providers, the coverage of particular EE topics and programs, and current staffing trends in environmental education fields.

Project Next Steps

Completing data collection is just the beginning! With the information gathered through the landscape analysis process, we will continue to collaborate on securing funding to increase EE services throughout the Midwest, ensuring that learners have equitable access to quality environmental education programs, and providing EE organizations with access to the data to aid in the identification of funding and service opportunities that meet their unique needs.