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DEAR FRIENDS & SUPPORTERS,
Photo by Charlotte Reedy
JULY 1, 2013 – JUNE 30, 2014
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TOTAL $5,011.06 CORPOR ATE EXPENSES
Contract Services Business Expenses Bank Charges
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TOTAL $4,303.56
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reating Landscapes Learning Center, LLC has now completed its 9th year of preparing learners for active citizenship through their engagement with our four venues — the Learning Center K-8 Independent School, Creating Landscapes for Families, the Creating Landscapes Early Learning Center, and Food 4 Thought. Our venues enjoy a great deal of autonomy and independence while still benefiting from the support and encouragement of our experienced Creating Landscapes leaders and our Advisory Council with particular expertise in various fields such as legal matters, insurance, fiscal management, personnel policies and marketing. Our venues have continued to prosper and grow. The Early Learning Center continues to operate with a Pennsylvania Department of Education Pre-K Counts grant and has brought together a wonderful and diverse group of 18 children in a loving, thoughtful, respectful and happy environment. Food4Thought has been deeply involved in community gardens and nutrition education through Grow Meadville. This summer, through grants from Foodcorp and the Winslow Foundation, six high school students have been hired to help with community gardens. The Learning Center K-8 Independent School is still providing exemplary, innovative and exciting curriculum for its students while nurturing critical thinking and problem solving. Creating Landscapes for Families is maintaining its community of families at both the South Main Street and the Fifth Ward gardens as well as with the after school program. We are looking forward to a post COVID-19 world with Creating Landscapes helping to provide a basis of love and respect for each other and growth, both organizationally and personally, for our communities. Corinne Chafey and Pete Gifford, Co-Chairs
Learning Center, Inc.
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MEMBERS a nd OFFICERS of t h e BOARD o f DIR E C TOR S CO R P O R AT E G OV E R N I N G B OA R D ANN ARESON, Ph.D. MELA CALOMINO M.S.W (appointed June 2019) CORINNE CHAFEY M.Ed. Co-Chair JULIA FAIR, M.S. Treasurer PAT FERREY
Photo by Lee Scandiaro
PETE GIFFORD Co-Chair JANYCE J. HYATT, M.F.A. Ed.D. Corresponding Secretary; Coordinator, Creating Landscapes at Allegheny College WALLACE G. MASON II M. Ed. STUART ROTHMAN CHARLOTTE WELLMAN, Ph.D. Recording Secretary SCOTT YEAGER (appointed June 2019) ADVISORY BOARD
JENN GIFFORD Marketing ROGER JANES Insurance JOYCE KLASEN Education ROSS PR ATHER, Esq. Legalities
Photo by Dan Winston
LINDA WETSELL Allegheny College V ENUE CH A IR S and /or R EPR ESEN TATI V ES
MELA CALOMINO Creating Landscapes for Families SCOTT YEAGER The Learning Center K-8 Independent School WALLY MASON Food4Thought
Photo by Rosemary Richardson
PETE GIFFORD Families Early Learning Center VENUE TREASURERS
CHARMAINE KOEHLER-LODGE Creating Landscapes for Families SHANNON ONGLEY CPA The Learning Center K-8 School PETE GIFFORD Food4Thought CORINNE CHAFEY Families Early Learning Center
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Contributions $3,050.00 Event Income 784.00 TOTAL REVENUE $3,834.00
Amount Contract Services $3,739.27 Program Costs 2,031.05 Operations 84.01
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TOTAL EXPENSES $5,854.33
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his year has included a variety of changes for sure. And if Families excels in any area the most, it’s being flexible and creating “positive possibilities” by making informed decisions, even in the face of uncertain times! The first big transition for Families this year was the shift in venue directorship. As it was time for Joyce Klasen, Families beloved original Education Director and program nurturer, to spend more of her time with her own growing family — welcoming a new grandchild and helping to care for all of her grandchildren, Families eagerly acclimated to identify new leadership from within. After another successful garden season on South Main Street and in 5th Ward, Families returned to their after-school programming at the UU Church. This is always a time of Families coming together — members of all ages — sharing the joy of successes and helping each other through struggles. Families always knows how to solve problems and work together for the best possible outcomes — creatively and with so much heart! And while complexities of organizing and carrying out community engagement events like “Election Soup,” “Parade Chili,” and a “Spaghetti Dinner” are sure to test skills; Families jumped right in with initiative, innovation, and determination to make each of these endeavors just as meaningful as their weekly family dinners and discussions around the large table in the church’s kitchen. The next major change for Families was nothing less than a worldwide pandemic due to COVID-19. Although Families’ after-school sessions had to stop abruptly in the Spring, Families continued to remain connected virtually and yet again, creatively, to ensure that every member was well supported and able to navigate through the mandated quarantine process. Families were well-equipped to make the best of some very distressing and unpredictable times; after all, this is what empathic and empowered Families do — look out for each other, seek information, and make sound choices to move forward in a positive direction — together. So, it was no surprise when Families adjusted to new health guidelines and began to come back together, yet distantly and wearing masks, to ready and plant the gardens again. This Spring’s planting season has not been without challenges, due to the delayed start and difficulty acquiring certain plants and seeds. However, true to Families’ resourceful and solution focused nature, they forged new community collaborations to get the gardens back on track. By joining forces with Grow Meadville and a summer student work crew, Families’ gardens are now flourishing and preparing to nurture the many, many loving hands — large and small (and some teeny tiny ones too) — that tend to them regularly. There can be no doubt that Families is an entire community of resourceful and resilient individuals who continually choose to come together for the common benefit of each other and the whole. Families choosing partnerships, collaboration, and cooperation over selfserving endeavors, is always a well-informed choice, and a choice well made! Mela Calomino, Creating Landscapes for Families Venue Representative
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hile COVID-19 has been the defining event of 2020 leaving vast destruction, lost jobs and closed businesses in its wake, Food4Thought continues to flourish. Our world is fragile and humans inhabiting it are vulnerable. We have found how quickly our lives can change, but we adapt. During the worldwide pandemic, Food4Thought made changes to live up to and promote our vision to nurture grass roots engagement and action toward a well-fed, welleducated and resilient community. Being resilient means to adjust easily to misfortune or change. One change we had to make was how we met for our monthly meeting. Thanks to Pete Gifford we have been able to meet each month using “GOTOMEETING” video conferencing. Food4Thought has continued to work with the community by participating in MASH teacher Natalie Stearns’ Caring Cupboard. This program started by Natalie provides bags of food on Fridays to students for the weekend. F4T board member Ann Areson brought this project to the board’s attention last fall, thanks to her work on food insecurity in our community. When the pandemic closed the schools, Ann was concerned about the students not being able to have food for the weekends. Natalie was contacted and informed F4T the program was going to continue for the remainder of the school year, but she may need help delivering the bags of food on Fridays. David Miller, John & Jill Hyatt and Wally Mason volunteered to help. Each week they delivered bags of groceries to students through June 5, 2020. Creating Landscapes Food4Thought is happy to announce the hiring of five Grow Meadville Service Members for the Summer 2020. Service Members Meghan Willis, Brighton Anderson, Tiffany Onyeiwu, Cailey Metter, & Senna Camp, all under the age of 17, will work in many of the 20 (city, community, and educational) gardens spread across the City of Meadville. Facilitated by Taylor Hinton and Lee Scandinaro, our shared goals for the summer are to: feed people with good food, share knowledge about gardening, and build community connections. Service members follow CDC recommended guidelines including wearing facemasks, social distancing, and using hand sanitizer frequently. Here is an excerpt from day two, June 16, 2020, of Cailey Metter’s Journal: Today, we managed to clear the weeds away from where the fire pit is stationed. I very much did enjoy the refreshing time outdoors. The sun was bright which complimented the mild temperature. While weeding, my eyes sought after the plants with flowers. Weeding can be a fun game when there is variety. A bright, little flower with oval leaves grew my way. The flower’s color was a familiar dark blue. This blue was that of the darkest shade perched in the middle of the sky. Clouds usually cover it, but today the color was visible. To me, the flower›s scent was not a weed›s smell but perfume. The smell was so sweet it tempted me to pick some. Funding for the Grow Meadville Summer Garden program has been provided by Food Corps, Whole Kids Foundation, and local contributions. Additional support has been provided by collaborating partner Meadville Neighborhood Center and Meadville Area Recreation Complex. Since November 2019, MASH student and Grow Meadville Service member Tiffany Onyeiwu has been attending F4T meetings. As one of the founders of MASH’s ECO people and Meadville’s Green New Deal, she organized a Town Hall titled Climate Change: Let’s Talk About It, that took place on November 20, 2019 at Meadville Area Senior High library. Finally, a special thank you to our collaborating partners, Creating Landscapes for Families, Parkside Psychological, Women’s Services, Systems of Care and Meadville Neighborhood Center for their continued support during this time of change. Wallace G. Mason II, Chairperson: Food4Thought Governing Board Peter Gifford, Treasurer
Photos by Kirsten Ams and Lee Scandinaro
Grow Meadville/ Crawford Heritage 2019 2019 Donations Collaborators’ Fees
Food Corps Grant
Whole Kids Foundation
Summer Parks 2019/ Systems of Care
Food4Thought REVENUE
Amount Whole Kids Foundation 3,000.00 Summer Parks 2019/ Systems of Care 1,677.82 Grow Meadville Crawford Heritage 2019 800.00 Food Corps Grant 750.00 Donations 400.00 Collaborators’ Fees 300.00 TOTAL REVENUE
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Summer Parks Project Grow Meadville Food For Thought
Amount $2,353.47 985.97 373.82
TOTAL EXPENSES $3,713.26
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Pre-K Counts $56,943.31 ELRC 30,649.94 Tuition 14,690.91 Grants 11,450.68 CACFP 7,926.69 Others 2,320.61 Contributions 1,273.17 TOTAL REVENUE $125,255.31
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Amount Personnel Salaries $76,264.14 Payroll Taxes $29,940.91 Supplies 19,954.43 Occupancy 13,102.29 Operations 5,322.10 Other Costs 1,725.75 Events/Activities 382.38
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TOTAL EXPENSES $146,692.00
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t the Creating Landscapes for Families Early Learning Center we love asking questions. How are we teaching our future generations, the budding life that is the child? How are we teaching them to think critically and make informed decisions? Can we nurture the awareness that a choice is being made before acting or speaking? Can we see that those choices are intricately connected to our feelings? Since we know that the brain is still developing the ability to think before acting at three and four years old (impulse control), we start by guiding children to discover that they can choose. The first step is the awareness that there can be a choice. “You can choose to hit your friend when you’re angry or you can choose to walk away until you’re calm enough to talk.” From our peace corner to our moments of silence, waterfall breaths and student-led yoga circles, awareness practices are woven into our daily routines. These mindful activities allow the children to see that they can pause long enough in a moment to make a choice. And yet, it’s hard to be aware of our choices when we are overwhelmed by our feelings. So, at the same time that we teach awareness of choice, we also cultivate emotional intelligence. What are you feeling and can you become aware of that feeling before you act? Can you choose to act on that feeling in a way that does not harm another or yourself? We offer vocabulary for our feelings. We support connections to our feelings through stories, music, dance, art and play. Together with the children, we explore the complex range of feeling states, without attaching shame or guilt, by validating and creating space for all emotions to be expressed. By the time our students turn five and graduate, they are able to breathe when they are upset, speak to their feelings, choose to paint as a calming strategy, dance when they are happy and work through conflicts by hearing another’s perspective. We believe this foundation of critical thinking and connecting to feeling will carry our students into the world where they can respond consciously rather than react unconsciously. It is with great joy and firm commitment that we approach early childhood education in this way. Our need for making good choices and being aware that those choices are informed by our feelings is needed in the world more now than ever. Charlotte Reedy, Education Director and Lead Teacher Corinne Chafey, M.Ed., Treasurer
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Amount School Fees $311,283.72 Contributions 21,755.71 Fundraising Revenue 21,270.95 Other Income 1,494.92
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TOTAL REVENUE $355,805.30 SCHOOL EXPENSES Amount
Payroll $283,576.13 Facilities & Building 18,000.00 Programming 8,590.92 Other expenses 5,564.70 Operations 5,424.47 Equipment 4,847.38 Events 3,342.01 Contract Services 1,779.35 Employee Benefits 1,538.62 Business Expenses 1,380.69 Communications 290.29 Travel/Meetings 144.17 Bank Charges 30.00
Bank Charges Travel/Meetings Communications Business Expenses Employee Benefits Contract Services Events Equipment Operations Other Expenses Programming Facilities & Building
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ne of The Learning Center K-8 School’s greatest strengths is creating a community of students who are kind, compassionate, and welcoming. This starts with the staff at the school modeling respect and holding students to high standards, not only for academics, but for their behavior in the community and towards one another. Nine years ago, when the school was first started, we initiated a “not so typical” rewards system for our students, acknowledging acts of kindness by individuals, small groups of students, and the whole school. Our school year begins with a week of classroom conversations to collectively develop expectations for how we will work together to create meaningful work. Each student and teacher signs their name as a commitment to work towards meeting those expectations, to help each other be successful, and to promote kindness and thoughtfulness in all we do. Another of our founding commitments is to “Fostering Curiosity” — that desire to learn and understand. Curiosity is innate to children, to which anyone who’s spent time following a crawling baby can attest, so our role becomes one of support and guidance. We demonstrate respect for our student’s inquisitiveness and the enthusiasm to allow them to explore their ideas in a safe and welcoming environment. As students feed their curiosity by following threads of ideas, we guide them to weigh those ideas, assessing the potential outcomes and impacts. In creative writing, that involves both the way the plot is developing and resolving, and also the purposeful selection of words to paint the story. Math shows our students that there are many different ways to solve most problems: 1 + 1 isn’t the only way to get to 2. Theme projects introduce the scientific method and the historical impact that came when people employed its discoveries. The Arts have students testing movement and musical expression, color and light and texture, to see if they can give life to their visions. Through this process, Learning Center students also come to understand that they have the power to design and mold their future in thoughtful and meaningful ways. Our authors determine what their characters will experience. Our scientists pose the questions and define the tests. Our artists choose their materials and what they want to express. They draw from what they’ve learned through those curious explorations and choose what will best enrich their community. They learn to choose — well. They learn not only the power of making informed choices, but the responsibility to do so. As they participate in classroom discussions, they learn to listen to others, recognize fully thought out ideas, engage in critical debate, and present their positions with logic, empathy, and an open mind. That experience guides them to build a kind, compassionate, and caring community,
where all are supported to express themselves and partner in building solutions. In a world that faces complex, intertwined problems that scale from local to global impact, it’s more important than ever to develop a generation of empathetic, critical thinkers. A generation capable of asking questions and making purposeful choices rather than just taking sides. Our students show us how possible it is to identify a problem, work collaboratively to develop possible solutions, and choose the best amongst them. At our school compassion and curiosity come together brilliantly. I feel confident we’ll be in good hands when The Learning Center K-8 students are the ones making the decisions.
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EN A BLED by ALLEGHEN Y COLLEGE (1990 –2020 ) SUMMER L ANDSCAPES The Summer Creating Landscapes Program (1990) — where curious students and creative faculty play and learn together.
AESTHETIC EDUCATION Aesthetic Education Programs for Educators (1990) — where area educators discover the power of arts-infused learning as a viable path toward achieving twenty-first century learning skills.
ENRICHMENT COLL ABOR ATION The Enrichment Collaboration for Middle and High School Students (1999) — where Allegheny College Faculty and community professionals offer enrichment opportunities in the arts and sciences for area middle and high school students on twelve Fridays each academic year.
ADULT LE ARNING FORCE The Adult Learning Force in conjunction with the Enrichment Collaboration (2010) — where adult learners participate with area high school students to reacquaint themselves with the best of liberal arts learning.
EN A BLED in t he COM MUNIT Y by CRE ATING L ANDSC APES LE ARNING CENTER INC . (2009 –2020) A non-sectarian, non-profit organization that extends creative and active inquiry to intergenerational learners. Our work is distinguished by aesthetic learning, which engages the senses and emotions in addition to the critical mind.
L ANDSCAPES for FA MILIES Creating Landscapes for Families (2009) — where families wholeheartedly navigate LIFE together, sharing the load.
K– 8 INDEPENDENT SCHOOL The Creating Landscapes Learning Center K–8 Independent School (2011) — where children, parents and educators create a rich learning environment that nurtures and grows our future leaders.
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Home of GROW MEADVILLE, Film 4 Thought, Walk-able Meadville, and ongoing Summer Parks development (2014) — where collaborators gather to nurture grassroots engagement and action toward a well-fed, well-educated and resilient community.
FA MILIES E ARLY LE ARNING CENTER (2017) — where children love to learn, teachers love to teach and families feel at home. A 4-STAR Early Learning Center for children 3-5 years old offering Pre-K Counts and wraparound care.
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The schools of Creating Landscapes Learning Center, Inc. admit students of any race, color and/or ethnic origin — December 2019
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Pathstone Senior Employment Program Amelia Carr Richard & Corinne Chafey Chiquita Concannon Pat Ferrey Jenn Gifford Pete Gifford Sabrina & Alan Hornstein Robin Howell Jan Hyatt Bob & Joyce Klasen Deb Lehman Amanda Marcum Gabrielle Morrow Karen Schreiber Mason
Amber Mosbacher Patricia Pardee Stacey Phillips Sarah Steffes John Stewart Autumn Taylor Chuck Thom The Timo Family Gretchen Wood
Food4Thought Jonathan Miller Design Systems of Care The Crawford Heritage Foundation The Winslow Foundation Creating Landscapes for Families Meadville Neighborhood Center Parkside Psychological Women’s Services. Ann Areson Pete Gifford Jan Hyatt Wally Mason Kurt Van Tuil
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Gifts to the Corporation Evan & Cheryl Andrae Ann Areson & Greg Dauber Luke Braughler Jim Bulman & Beth Watkins Ruth & William Bywater Sylvia & Brian Cagle Amelia Carr & Pete LeBar Corinne & Richard Chafey Sarah Chapp Hannah & Mark Cosdon Richard & Laurie Freysinger Amara Geffen & Jed Miller Janace Gifford Jennifer Gifford Peter Gifford Jill & John Hyatt Mitchell King Deborah Lehman Jeffrey & Hillary Link Caitlin McGrath David Miller & Charlotte Wellman Jennifer & Paul Mohtashen Shannon & Austin Rock Rosanne & David Rust Nancy Sheridan Marian Sherwood Eleanor Weisman & Jay Hanes Scott Yeager The Robert Hyatt Family Fund Jonathan Miller Design Karen Schreiber Mason Mary Spicer
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