Chewonki Foundation
{{Short description|US non-profit organization}}
{{Infobox organization
| name = The Chewonki Foundation
| image = Chewonki Foundation logo.jpeg
| caption = Foundation logo showing the osprey mascot
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| formation = {{Start date|1915}}
| founder =
| type = Non-profit
| headquarters = Wiscasset, Maine, United States
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| region_served =
| services = Educational programs
| website = {{URL|www.chewonki.org}}
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The Chewonki Foundation is a non-profit institution in Wiscasset, Maine, which runs educational programs with an environmental focus.
Background
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Founded in 1915 as a summer camp for boys, the Foundation now runs a four-month high school program—Maine Coast Semester at Chewonki, boys and girls summer camp programs, wilderness trips for teenagers and families, an organic farm, traveling natural history programs where non-releasable wildlife are brought to schools and libraries, as well as week-long environmental education programs for school groups around New England.
The Chewonki Foundation is located on a {{convert|400|acre|km2|adj=on}} peninsula between Westport Island and the town of Woolwich. The peninsula protrudes into Montsweag Bay. The foundation is also a steward of the former Debsconeag Lake camps on Fourth Debsconeag Lake, and the owners of the public Big Eddy Campground off the Golden Road. With their off-site, program-specific properties, Chewonki took possession of several islands in Mid-Coast Maine to keep them available for public access.{{cite web|url=http://www.mltn.org/trust_detail.php?t=1197|title=MLTN: Chewonki Foundation|website=www.mltn.org|access-date=2013-03-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140111051122/http://www.mltn.org/trust_detail.php?t=1197|archive-date=2014-01-11|url-status=dead}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.chewonki.org/ Chewonki Foundation]
{{Summer camps in Maine}}
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Category:Non-profit organizations based in Maine
Category:Summer camps in Maine
Category:Conservation and environmental foundations based in the United States
Category:Organizations established in 1915
Category:1915 establishments in Maine
Category:Education in Lincoln County, Maine
Category:Buildings and structures in Wiscasset, Maine
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