Agency Details:

Conservation Corps North Bay

CCNB's mission is to develop youth and conserve natural resources for a strong, sustainable community.

Description:
We achieve our mission by:

·Providing a diverse group of youth and young adults with opportunities to transform their lives through education, employability, civic engagement, and leadership.

·Caring for our environment by conserving and restoring natural resources, and by improving recreational areas.

·Creating the environmental leaders of the future by teaching environmental ethics and behaviors to children, teens and adults.

·Making communities safer by reducing fire and flood hazards and by responding to public emergencies and disasters.

Nationally recognized as a leader in youth service, CCNB serves an ethnically diverse population of young people. Each year now, approximately 150 corpsmembers (aged 18-28) and 140 junior corpsmembers (grades 6th-12th) participate in programs that help them gain the knowledge, values and skills to become productive and responsible members of their community and stewards of the environment. Since our inception, our organization has improved the lives of more than 5,000 youth while performing more than three million hours of work on hundreds of thousands of acres of public lands.

History:
Founded in 1982 as the nation's first local nonprofit conservation corps program, Conservation Corps North Bay (CCNB) is committed to developing youth and conserving natural resources for a strong, sustainable community.

We have a highly qualified and dedicated team of 40 staff members who are led by long-time Executive Director Marilee Eckert. Ms. Eckert has served as CCNB’s Executive Director since 1992. Under her leadership, the organization has grown from a $1.2 million to a $5.3 million organization, and successfully launched a number of its core programs including its AmeriCorps, Project ReGeneration, Community Recycling, and Corps-to-Career programs.

Contact people:

Laura Giacomini, Development Director, (phone), (email) Marilee Eckert, Executive Director, (phone), (email) Volunteer Coordinator, Volunteer Coordinator, (phone), (email)

Main office number: (415) 454-4554
Office fax number: (415) 454-4595

Address:

27 Larkspur Street San Rafael, CA 94901 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.conservationcorpsnorthbay.org

Last updated on January 16, 2010