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:

• Community-based School Environmental Education Project (CO-SEED) of Antioch New England Institute
• A Forest for Every Classroom (Shelburne Farms, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, Green Mountain National Forest, National Wildlife Federation, NPS Conservation Study Institute)
• Litzsinger Road Ecology Center (Missouri Botanical Garden)
• Wellborn Ecology Fund (New Hampshire Charitable Foundation)
• REAL School Gardens
• Sustainable Schools Project (Shelburne Farms)
• Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center
• A Trail to Every Classroom (National Park Service, Appalachian Trail Conservancy)

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.