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AGENCY INFORMATION <br /> Please provide the following information about your agency: <br /> 1. Date of Incorporation (Month/Year): 12/2002 <br /> 2. Agency's Purpose/Mission (no more than a few sentences): Our mission is to <br /> encourage conservation and inspire people to build lifelong connections with nature <br /> through immersive outdoor education, citizen science, and wildlife stewardship. <br /> 3. Please provide a brief description of your organization's past achievements in <br /> carrying out similar projects and evidence of successful record of meeting <br /> proposed budgets and timetables (no more than 100 words). <br /> We have been running our afterschool program for 8 years at CHCCS and Durham <br /> Public Schools. At Carrboro Elementary school, we have worked within our budget, <br /> sent timely program agendas to the school: carried out teacher trainings and <br /> submitted sign in lists for continuing education credit and followed the timeframe laid <br /> out in our proposals. Parents reported on surveys how their children share their <br /> experience and knowledge, and send their kids to camp. Positive survey responses, <br /> the excitement students showed when we arrived at the school, and teachers <br /> reported using the activities in our absence, are signs of our success. <br /> 4. Living Wage: Does this agency pay permanent employees a minimum living <br /> wage? (Yes/No) No <br /> If yes, is this agency an Orange County Living Wage Certified Employer? <br /> No <br /> If no, please briefly explain. <br /> Due to financial decisions made prior to the pandemic, and then freezing salaries <br /> during the pandemic, salaries were adjusted as best as possible, and we had a group <br /> health plan. Our criteria to offer an employer plan changed and those who needed <br /> health insurance had to go back through the marketplace. Currently, the board is <br /> evaluating adjusting the current budget so we can pay a living wage without health <br /> insurance to our permanent full-time staff. We are incrementally raising wages with <br /> the goal of eventually providing a living wage. <br /> Schedule of Positions: # of FTE — Full-Time Paid Positions: 8 <br /> # of FTE — Part-Time Paid Positions: 1 <br /> * 1 Part time staff that works all year round. <br /> * 41 Part time staff that work seasonal. <br /> Program information Page 12 of 30 <br />