About Us

The Promise of Place web site is a project of:

Center for Place-based Learning and Community Engagement

A unique public private partnership that works to advance the state of the art in place-based education by facilitating collaborative efforts in research, program design, techical assistance, resource development and dissemination. The Center Partners are:

• Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park
• National Park Service Conservation Study Institute
• Shelburne Farms

In collaboration with:

Place-based Education and Evaluation Collaborative (PEEC)

A unique partnership of several nonprofit organizations and projects from New England and beyond whose aim is to strengthen and deepen the practice place-based education initiatives through program evaluation. The PEEC Partners are:

• The CO-SEED Project  (Antioch New England Institute)
• A Forest For Every Classroom (FFEC)  (National Wildlife Federation, US Forest Service, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, National Park Service Conservation Study Institute and Shelburne Farms)
• The Litzsinger Road Ecology Center (LREC) (Missouri Botanical Garden)
• The Sustainable Schools Project (Shelburne Farms)
• A Trail to Every Classroom  (Appalachian National Scenic Trail and Appalachian Trail Conservancy)
• The Upper Valley Region of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
• The Community Mapping Project (CMaP) (Orton Family Foundation; founding member through 2005)

This website was supported by the USDA Forest Service as part of Electronic Commons competitive grants program. A partnership of the USDA Forest Service, Wood Education and Resource Center, and the Northern Initiatives. 

Additional web support provided by Missouri Botanical Garden under National Science Foundation grants #ESI-0639638 and #DRL-0833663.