OAK October 2014 Newsletter OAK ECHO Across America Webinar On October 6, OAK’s State and Local Action team lead a webinar on OAK’s ECHO (Every Child Healthy Outdoors) Across Americainitiative. 32 participants joined us for the webinar to learn about the initiative and how to utilize the ECHO Across America Toolkit. Interested in joining OAK’s [...]
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OAK Annual Meeting and Advocacy Day, ECHO Webinar and other news
OAK September 2014 Newsletter OAK Annual Meeting and Advocacy Day – September 8-9, 2014 OAK’s Annual Membership Meeting in Washington, DC was a huge success! OAK members traveled from across the country to attend the meeting to share ideas and discuss how best to advance OAK’s goals. We were fortunate to have in attendance members from the [...]
Join us for OAK’s ECHO Across America launch webinar!
Mark your calendar: Monday, October 6, 2014 from 3:00 – 4:30 PM ET Please join the Outdoors Alliance for Kids for the launching of our new Every Child Healthy Outdoors (ECHO) Across America Toolkit. OAK’s ECHO Across America Toolkit provides a suite of resources to advance opportunities to connect children, youth and families with the outdoors [...]
Keys to Keeping Your Outdoor Classroom Growing
OAK guest blog by Susan Wirth, Outreach Director with Dimensions Educational Research Foundation and the Arbor Day Foundation originally published by Natural Start Alliance Connecting children with nature has a myriad of benefits that are receiving national attention. Research tells us that children who spend time in nature are more creative, less stressed, better able to concentrate, physically [...]
Nature Play Coming to Every Community
OAK member guest blog by Allen Cooper, from National Wildlife Federation originally published in Wildlife Promise Every parent who has ever watched a child play in nature has cause to rejoice. NWF’s guide Nature Play & Learning Places: Creating and Managing Places Where Children Engage with Nature shows how to design and manage nature play areas [...]
Every Child Healthy Outdoors (ECHO) Across America, Secretary Jewell Announces Award for Wildlife Refuge, and Other News
OAK August 2014 Newsletter SAVE THE DATE: Every Child Healthy Outdoors (ECHO) Across America Toolkit Webinar We are so pleased to announce the launching of OAK’s Every Child Healthy Outdoors (ECHO) Across America Toolkit. OAK’s ECHO Across America Toolkit provides a series of resources and templates to convene a meeting of leaders of organizations in your state [...]
Camping Made Easy
OAK Member Guest Blog by Eric Bach and Irene Lam from Hipcamp Camping should be simple. If I want to get outside with my family next weekend and camp by the ocean, I should be able to. However, after spending hours of searching online to answer these questions, we realized it really isn’t so easy. [...]
OAK Celebrates Great Outdoors America Week and other News
OAK July Newsletter OAK Celebrates Great Outdoors America Week June 23 -26, 2014 marked the annual Great Outdoors America Week, where 100s of advocates descended upon Washington, DC, to remind our nation's leaders of the importance of America’s great outdoors. OAK celebrated GO Week by hosting our second annual Youth and America’s Great Outdoors Event. [...]
Organizations Come Together to Celebrate Kids and Youth in the Great Outdoors
The Outdoors Alliance for Kids (OAK) Hosts an Event as part of Great Outdoors America Week OAK Member Guest Blog by Tia Watkins, Sierra Club During my second full week as a Sierra Club intern I was lucky enough to participate in Great Outdoors America Week , a week dedicated to raising awareness around outdoor issues [...]
Kick Nature-Deficit Disorder to the Curb: Celebrating Great Outdoors Month
OAK member guest blog by Jackie Ostfeld, Nearby Nature Director, Our Wild America Campaign, Sierra Club Originally published in Sierra Club's "Lay of the Land" Just for kicks, I googled fear of outside this morning. My search turned up 187 million results. For comparison's sake, I then googled fear of death and fear of [...]
