This is a summary of where we are with the Collaborative Partnership between LIFE Camp and Planetary Self
The Deck linked directly below was submitted to the Mr. Stuart Post of the Meringoff Family Foundation, in early March, as part of a last-minute request for micro-grant funds in the amount of $25k. It was submitted by Mr. Gregory Sandor, Executive Director of Cornell Cooperative Extension.
LIFE Camp and Planetary Self have a signed Collaboration Agreement based on the plan to operate a joint program between LIFE Camp’s youth enrollees1 and (1) Planetary Self’s unique relationship and positioning2 with universities and social impact organizations3, (2) Planetary Self’s proprietary tech and (3) its tenure in the global social impact movement.
1.“LIFE Camp’s youth enrollees = the Southeast Queens youth that LC can access and include in a newly designed program
2.Everard Findlay (Planetary Self founder) is an active co-chair of Ocean Visions at Brown University, board member of Grow NYC, and was invited to build a Planetary Self HQ on Cornell CE’s 140-acre campground in Long Island, NY. These close relationships extend to LIFE Camp insomuch as Everard’s intent is for LIFE Camp’s youth to be the primary participants in programming at these facilities.
3.Everard was part of the United Nations panel that announced the 17 SIGs (Social Impact Goals) aka 17 SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) that govern the world’s leading social-environmental development initiatives. With Everard’s position at Brown, that comes with preferrential access to collaborations with the below-listed institutional partners, LIFE Camp is able to develop youth programming that has no ceiling in terms of gobal relevance. LIFE Camp, with its Planetary Self Partnership can offer Queens’ youth out-of-school supplemental programming that rivals any known pre-college program. This access, the closeness to top decision-makers at said institutions opens the way for a LIFE Camp youth program that will attract the level of funding needed for the 5-building vision for Peace Village.
Below is a chart showing the institutions that are partnered with Ocean Visions at Brown University.
Brown University - MIT - Smithsonian - Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions - Georgia Tech - UC Santa Barbara - University of South Florida College of Marine Science - World Ocean Council - Scripps Inst. of Oceanography - Larta Institute - Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute - Ocean Conservancy - University of Geargia Skidway Inst. of Oceanography - Ocean Frontier Institute - Sustainable Ocean Alliance - Georgia Aquarium - AGU Advancing Earth & Space Science - ESRI - Ocean Networks Canada
Attn: Planetary Self, LIFE Camp's leadership has met with the Chancellor of the NYCDOE, David Banks, who has pledged to LIFE Camp the support needed for us to operate as needed within Southeast Queens schools outside of their standing curricula and building use.
Attn: LIFE Camp, Everard Findlay, since signing the Collaboration Agreement with LIFE Camp, has been named Co-Chair of the Ocean-based Urban Ecosystems for Planetary Health Think Tank to engage in co-designing and further establishing the research & development group with Brown University. Everard was already a board of directors member at Grow NYC, and a strategic partner with Cornell Cooperative Extension, with an invitation to build a Planetary Self HQ on Cornell's grounds.
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