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Help Sustain Woolman Today!

Dear Friends,

This week, we launch our year-end fundraising campaign, beginning with Giving Tuesday, tomorrow November 29.

We need your help now to propel Woolman into 2023.

There are many opportunities for you to help sustain Woolman. You can:

  • Make a donation today. As a nonprofit organization, Woolman relies on the contributions of supporters like you. This moment right now is our big, annual fundraising campaign. Donations we receive now through the end o fthe year help to sustain Woolman all year long.
  • Help us generate support for Woolman by following us on social media. By liking and sharing our posts, you help increase Woolman's visibility online and help to promote our mission and programming. This is particularly important during Giving Tuesday tomorrow. Click here: Facebook  Instagram 
  • Share the news! Talk to your friends and family about why you're excited to support the work happening at Woolman today.
  • Hold a fundraiser for Woolman. Gather the people, tell them why you support Woolman, and ask them to donate too! Woolman can send promotional materials and/or a staff member to talk to your group about Woolman Today. Email coleenh@woolman.org for more information.

All donations will go to achieve the priorities described below.

For all your support – financial, volunteer, moral, and spiritual – THANK YOU!

Coleen

coleenh@woolman.org
Priorities for 2023
Programs and Retreats
 

The highest priority for 2023 is to continue to build our programs and retreats. Woolman Today includes these five offerings:

  • Camp Woolman - inclusive adventures for youth
  • Woolman Outdoor School - bridging the classroom with outdoor learning
  • Woolman Arts - cultivating creativity in nature
  • Woolman Center for Activism - supporting change makers
  • Woolman Retreats - welcoming spaces to restore, gather, and collaborate

In 2023 we will launch the Woolman Center for Activism and Elemental After School, a nature-based youth arts program that incorporates an arts educator internship. We will continue outreach efforts to promote Woolman Outdoor School, aiming to host 3 - 5 schools in 2023.

We will also expand our Camp Woolman offerings, adding arts and other activities to this flagship program that includes backcountry trips in the High Sierras. Two-week sessions will be available to younger campers as well as teens, and we will serve more campers in 2023

New Platform Tent Circle & Shower Room
 

In 2023, we will build seven platform tents in the flat area near the Dining Hall. A shower room renovation in the lower level of the Dining Hall will allow us to meet campers' needs without having to build an entirely new bathhouse.

This new tent circle is essential to allowing Woolman to host youth programs, accommodating best practice in lodging children in groups. We anticipate these tents will have a significant return on investment, as it will allow us to increase the size of school groups and camp sessions we host.

Challenge: It will cost approximately $10,000 to build each platform tent. Consider engaging your group to raise the funds to build one tent! Pool your own donations and/or hold a fundraising event for Woolman. Email coleenh@woolman.org for materials or support.

Improving Campus Fire Safety

Planning for building an emergency exit and circle driveway are underway. We will have road engineering plans completed in early 2023 and will seek grant funding to complement donations to build the emergency exit road. With support from Sierra Streams Institute, Woolman will also begin implementing a revised forest management plan in 2023, working to improve both forest health and fire safety.


Nisenan Land Acknowledgement

Woolman's campus sits on unceded Nisenan Land.

We acknowledge the Nisenan people are still here among us today, though they are nearly invisible, and their story continues to be excluded from history.

We understand we are on Nisenan land that was never ceded, and the original tribal families have yet to recover from the near genocide of their people.

As a resident or visitor in Nisenan land, we support the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan tribe in efforts to stabilize their people as well as the campaign to restore tribal sovereignty through federal recognition.
Thank you!
Thank you for supporting Woolman!

We appreciate you so much!

Thank you for helping to sustain Woolman!

We truly could not do this work without your support!
Help Sustain Woolman Today
13075 Woolman Lane
Nevada City, CA 95959
530-273-3183