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Eagle Eye provides access to hands-on exploratory learning on environmental topics and career bridging to natural resource fields. We use the power of nature and an interactive experiential learning process as catalyst for personal and organizational transformation.
Eagle Eye has a 15 year track record successfully bringing people together across racial, social, cultural, economic, geographic, age and educational lines delivering transformational programs in nature to urban young people through powerful partnerships with natural resource professionals serving as volunteer instructors.
Eagle Eye Institute uses a three tiered program model for social change:
 Why are Eagle Eye programs important?
Urban youth of color represent in Eagle Eye’s experience a vast untapped resource of talent, energy, creativity, and passion that can be leveraged through a relatively simple yet powerful shift in the relationship the youth have to and with the natural world and the natural resource community.
Eagle Eye Institute's programs:
Provide access to rural nature for urban people they might not otherwise have
Increase environmental awareness among urban residents
Connect urban residents with natural resource professionals who help bridge them to placement, internship, or training that can lead to a rewarding career
Increase diversity within the environmental movement
Offer positive programming for youth that emphasizes stewardship, team-building, personal responsibility and leadership development
Open a pathway for urban people to become skilled and motivated workers in green, environmental, and natural resource professions
Create opportunities for diverse people to work together caring for the land
Eagle Eye’s Pathway to Success
Eagle Eye's experiential approach uses the power of nature as a tool for building community and to transform urban youth and the adults who work with them. Eagle Eye's proven programs provide entry points for urban young people to gain knowledge and awareness of their relationship with nature as they develop an understanding and connection with their roles as stewards of the natural environment. By working and learning alongside natural resource professionals, the young adults are exposed to rewarding careers in fields they might not otherwise consider as their capacity for environmental leadership is cultivated.
Currently, Eagle Eye Institute uses the power of nature to transform urban youth through its Green Industry Career Pathway Program. This series of 1 and 3-day sessions provides young people the full 3-tiered sequence of experiences:
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