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Photo credit: National Park Trust
this effort, OAK has been partnering with federal agencies and organi-zational partners to support the Every Kid in a Park program.
To ensure that fourth graders across America know about this incredible opportunity, OAK has joined forces with the National Park Trust, The North Face, and the National Park Service to host five Every Kid in a Park events in major cities across the country. The event series, supported by a generous contribution from The North Face’s Explore Fund, are being held in New York City, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Boston, and Chicago.
Dylan Bowman, famous endurance runner and member of The North Face’s Global Athlete team, joined an Every Kid in a Park event recently at the Maritime National Historical Park in San Francisco. The event engaged 60 fourth graders from Hoover Ele-mentary School in an active day of outdoor games and exploring. Bow-man helped lead activities, which included learning how to pack a backpack for a day hike as part of a “backpack relay race” and setting up a tent. The energetic students left the event with their own official Every Kid in a Park pass.
Support for Every Kid in a Park continues to grow. The program is now secured for the next five years, giving new generations of fourth graders access to more than 2,000 sites. The program is sustained by the National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Forest Service, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Although it is primarily implemented through these seven agencies, the program has received support from many community organizations and foundations.
To ensure the continued support of this program through OAK partners and initiatives, OAK has partnered with the National Park Service to bring on a fellow through Conservation Legacy to help directly with Every Kid in a Park. The new Community Assistance Fellow, Isabel Argoti, began in January and will work with the National Park Service and OAK through December 2017.
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Every Kid in a Park passes
Photo credit: Annie Yearout, Author of OutdoorsyMama.com
Students at an Every Kid in a Park event in San Francisco
Credit: National Park Trust