Muddy Sneakers Annual Report 2018

OUR PATH
From the Executive Director
RYAN OLSON
Fiscal year 2018 was remarkable for Muddy Sneakers.
It was a year filled with new initiatives and historic
anniversaries, the addition of talented new
staff and board members, expanded partnerships,
and broader private investment. The NC General Assembly saw this investment and
rewarded our successful launch of a Piedmont field office in FY ’17 with another
single-year appropriation toward maintaining and growing the organization’s work.
Recognizing how important it is to first serve those schools most interested in partnering
and those best positioned near preserved natural areas, the organization
made the decision in FY ’18 to pilot a hub-and-spoke model to reach more distant,
underserved schools. Through our two existing field offices, we launched a satellite
program where staff are asked to travel beyond their typical 1.5-hour radius.
Through spending multiple nights in the area and offering sometimes back-to-back
Hands-on learning
fosters creativity
and achievement.
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