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Welcome to Eagle Eye Institute

collage.pngEagle Eye Institute empowers urban people from low income communities, especially youth of color, to play a positive role caring for our environment. Headquartered in Somerville, MA, Eagle Eye has been engaged in developing passionate environmental leaders from within urban communities since 1991. Eagle Eye operates statewide serving diverse urban young people ages 12-24 from low income communities enrolled in youth development organizations located in major urban centers.

Eagle Eye understands that as attention shifts towards responsible energy use and green jobs, the very important question of “why be green?” must be addressed. Caring for the environment should be everyone’s concern but how can you care for something you know nothing about? How can you aspire to something you have never experienced? Young people need to experience and understand the natural world in order to see their place and responsibility in it.

Eagle Eye is a regional leader developing and disseminating innovative experiential program models serving urban youth of color that build environmental awareness, skills and responsibility. We offer instruction and technical assistance to individuals and organizations in youth development, natural resource, environmental education, and green industry fields. We maintain a champion network of natural resource professionals who lead one and three day Learning, Stewardship, and Career bridging programs and engage with Eagle Eye in the work of increasing the diversity of people actively involved as stewards of the environment and serving as environmental leaders.
 
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    Learning Programs

    Full day programs located in natural resource environments where youth learn and engage in the natural world with natural resource professionals. Youth get introduced to stewardship projects.
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    Stewardship Days

    3 day, 2 night camping experience; an extended time in nature provides opportunities for youth and adults to focus on leadership development and skill building. Now part of a community, youth work together to cook meals, clean, participate in learning sessions and complete stewardship projects. They sleep in tents and build outdoor skills while learning basic camping techniques.
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    Career Bridging Programs

    3 day, 2 night camping experience; an extended time in nature provides opportunities for youth and adults to focus on leadership development and skill building. Now part of a community, youth work together to cook meals, clean, participate in learning sessions and complete stewardship projects. They sleep in tents and build outdoor skills while learning basic camping techniques.

Message from Board president and co-Founder, Anthony Sánchez:

anthony.pngCaring for the environment should be everyone’s concern but how can you care for something you know nothing about? How can you aspire to something you have never experienced? Young people need to experience and understand the natural world in order to see their place and responsibility in it.

Growing up in New York City didn’t give me the access and benefits that nature provides. At 13, I got into trouble and was sent to a Catholic institution in upstate New York. There for the first time, I experienced the things rural residents take for granted: skating on a frozen pond, riding horses, hiking through the woods. The value of my first experience with the outdoors was that it led me to say “yes” the next time.

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