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AGENCY INFORMATION <br />Please provide the following information about your agency: <br />Date of Incorporation (Month/Year):12/2002 <br />(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 />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 />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 />DocuSign Envelope ID: 59AE45FB-98E0-4087-8250-10D08A4AD3AD