Jan. 1, 2019
UAS Annual Report
Welcome to 2019!
Each year, we send a New Year’s message to you, our Squad Community, to share our accomplishments and our challenges of the last year, and to let you in on our dreams for the years to come.
We hope you’ll consider this both a report and an invitation; if you read something in here that inspires you, troubles you, or makes your curious, we want to hear from you. Our best ideas have come from conversations with people who are interested in our work and our success. You can email us at [email protected] or you can contact me (Elana Mintz) directly at [email protected].
If you’re reading this, you’re one of over 1100 people who receives the “UAS Update,” an e-newsletter we started in 2014—the year that we first incorporated Urban Adventure Squad—with a distribution list of 12. That has led some of you to shower us with praise about how far we’ve come, and how much we’ve grown. It’s true, and we appreciate it! But we remain a tiny nonprofit, with a full-time staff of two, a part-time educator staff of about six, a six-member Board of Directors, and we face the significant challenge of growing carefully, with very limited resources.
In 2019, we’ll work on expanding our network of volunteers, developing a grant and grant-writing strategy, hiring additional program educators to support our new work inside of several local schools, and hiring a third full-time employee—a deputy director of programming—if our budget can support it.
We are seeking advice from experts in the nonprofit, private, and public sectors, and as we do, we are making decisions that allow us to reduce some of the time we spend on operations. For example, after four years of volunteer accounting help, we were finally able to hire an accounting firm, which means that my husband, Sunil Dasgupta, can focus on what he loves best—finding new and crazy ways to encourage our Squad to learn its way through DC by embracing carpentry, physics, new gardening techniques, and much more, and identifying new partnerships that expand our educational opportunities.
We also moved to a direct deposit system for UAS employee paychecks. This may seem like a small change, but being able to sustain monthly banking fees of $35-40 was a big step for us, and it was a big administrative relief to stop writing and distributing checks.
We hope to have the budget to move to an automated registration system before our school-year registration begins for the 2019-20 school year. Too much of the work we do behind the scenes is manual because we have not yet been able to afford more sophisticated software. And families would benefit from a dashboard system that allows them to review and update their information. We’re working on making this dream a reality!
UAS PROGRAMMING AND SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS IN 2018
In 2018, we registered almost 550 children for our full-day and summer programs, and engaged hundreds of new students through new school partnerships with Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School (Brookland Campus), where Urban Adventure Squad is implementing a year-long grant; Creative Minds International PCS, where we have developed and led garden education programs, and DC Bilingual PCS, where we are working with the school to development a new model of afterschool programming that is integrated with the school’s curriculum, and which increases students’ outdoor time with enriching learning experiences.
We ran 82 full-day, out-of-school-time programs in 2018. In 2017, we ran 120. A big issue we faced in the first half of 2018 was having to cancel underenrolled programs—usually for a single school where an administrator or small group of families were interested, but where UAS had limited outreach. We want to run as many programs as we can to support local families, but we’re generally unable to cover our costs without at least a minimum of 10 enrolled students.
To minimize disruptions, we list underenrolled programs as “tentative” on our website, www.urbanadventuresquad.org, and monitor them closely so that we can reach out to families and work on increasing registration or, when necessary, cancel them at least one week in advance.
We are always willing to try new programs for new school communities! We open registration for our school-year programs over the summer, and if you’d like to see us on days when your school is closed during the 2019-20 school year, please reach out to us as soon as possible so that we can identify an appropriate location and an effective way to reach families in your community.
Although we ran fewer full-day programs, we finally achieved a long-term goal, which is to support schools with programming that is aligned with their curriculum.
Moving inside schools. The Squad was created to support working families, and to fill the 70-day gap between how often parents work (about 250 days per year) and how often children attend school (about 180 days per year). The gap causes a significant financial and logistical strain for families.
But our goal was always to bring our model of community-based, experiential learning to the school curriculum itself. We have made progress in that direction by moving inside schools in 2018—from our garden classroom at Creative Minds, where grades PK-3 to 8 rotated through the garden during the school day, to our grant-funded curriculum work for grades K-5 at Elsie Whitlow Stokes, to our programs for grades 1-5 at DC Bilingual, we are supporting students, teachers, administrators, and their families with lesson plans and field trips that are aligned with the schools’ curricula.
At Creative Minds, for example, UAS educators planned weekly middle school science classes for grade 6, 7, and 8 in the spring and fall of 2018. Administrators included us in staff meetings and professional development days so that we could create relationships with members of the teaching staff.
Community organizations and guest educators. In 2018, we continued to find new ways to partner with people, businesses, and nonprofits all over Washington, D.C., to offer our students the best possible outdoors-focused, hands-on learning experiences. Here is just a small sampling of our 2018 adventures:
UAS staff and volunteers. UAS Squad Leaders, the educators who lead our programs, are the heart of our organization. In addition to leading our full-day programs across DC, they now go into classrooms and teach outdoors at several local schools. At Elsie Whitlow Stokes, for example, we are working in classrooms and outdoors to teach students about stormwater runoff and pollution in our waterways, and our role in protecting our environment. UAS educators create a culture of stewardship, and encourage students to ask hard questions and tackle pressing social problems. And we're always ready for an impromptu talent show!
UAS program educators include undergraduate and graduate students, current and former teachers, and part-time employees. Their background and experiences—in science, math, the humanities, theater, and more—offer endless learning opportunities for children in our programs.
We are currently recruiting additional educators for our programs. We look for smart, creative, engaging people who love children and who love teaching and learning outdoors. I encourage you to review and share our job description: www.urbanadventuresquad.org/job-opportunity
High school volunteer network. We have begun accepting high school volunteers for our programs, who can earn SSL hours for their work. If you know a great high school student who loves working with children and being outdoors, and who would like to gain experience with a local nonprofit, please have them get in touch with us.
Volunteer opportunities. Some of you have reached out over the past year to offer your help, and to help us with special projects or events. THANK YOU! We need help with just about everything, including coordinating volunteer educational, development, and administrative work. Sometimes we are so busy that we’re not able to delegate the work that we’d love to get done. If you’re interested in working on one-off or regular volunteer opportunities, or in coordinating other volunteers, we’d love to hear from you!
Communications and outreach. In 2018, we found ourselves in the exciting position of being written about, instead of just writing about ourselves! In February, UAS will be featured in an issue of Washingtonian that will focus on urban camps, and just this month, Lindsay Russell, a junior at American University studying political science and journalism, published her final journalism project on our work. You can read her story here:
The Academic Calendar Families Really Need: how one nonprofit is bridging the gap between workday and school day
We expanded our presence on social media by joining Facebook, which has allowed us to reach new audiences, experts, UAS partners, and fellow nonprofits, as we’ve been doing on Twitter since 2015. We hope you’ll follow us, too! We’re @UrbanAdvSquad on both Twitter and Facebook.
If you have feedback on ways to reach new audiences efficiently and inexpensively, we’d love to hear them: [email protected]
If you have experience with communications/outreach or website work and would like to volunteer with us, please email us: [email protected].
GRANTS AND FUNDRAISING
Perhaps the most exciting development this year was that UAS won our first grant—a $20,000 Community Stormwater Solutions Grant from the D.C. Department of Energy and Environment for our project, “D.C.’s Hidden Waterways.” The grant supports the development and implementation of a curriculum for students in kindergarten through 5th grades at Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School. You can read more about the grant and our fellow grantees here: https://doee.dc.gov/service/community-stormwater-solutions-grants
We cannot understate the importance of this grant to our growth as an organization, both because of the financial support and because it allows us to advance the mission that we have pursued since we started—to support families and schools with community-based, experiential learning programs, and to integrate this outdoors-focused work into the traditional school curriculum.
For many of the children we’ll be working with through the remainder of the school year, the prospect of a swimmable and fishable Anacostia is within reach before they complete their formal education. Fostering a culture of stewardship among schoolchildren in Washington, D.C., will be essential to helping us get there!
Individual donations.In 2018, we received almost $7000 in individual donations, which includesjust over $2300 in donations since we launched our year-end fundraising campaign in early November, and $1200 from a wonderful, sweaty fundraiser that we held in March, thanks to the generosity of Northwest Sport & Health and the dedication of our director of programming, Christy Brock, who arranged the partnership and brought together a fantastic team of instructors.
We are grateful to every one of our donors, and we truly treasure every dollar we receive because we know that it is a statement of trust in UAS. We will continue to ask for support in 2019 to expand scholarship opportunities and to support our programs. We hope we can count on you!
Plans for 2019 and beyond. The new year is a wonderful and necessary time to reflect on where we succeeded and where we fell short, and to dream of what we want to achieve together. With your support—your ideas, your financial support, your feedback, and your program registrations—we have come so far.
We have formed school partnerships because of parents who have loved our work during full-day programs and wanted us to be a more permanent presence in their school, and we’ve tried out dozens of new program ideas and lesson plans because one of you said, “You know what would be so cool…?”
We have worked harder to find creative, efficient ways to raise money so that we can create a fund that allows us to offer tuition assistance more liberally. It’s still difficult, and as we raise more, we need to do a better job of finding families who need us and offering them real scholarship support.
We are currently working on expanding partnerships, and have the good fortune to be working with not one, but two local historic landmarks—Lincoln’s Cottage and Tudor Place—where we will be holding programs in 2019.
We are getting ready to open registration for what we hope will be a banner UAS Summer 2019! Stay tuned for an email within a week.
Here are a few long-term goals we’re working on:
We want to consider ways for UAS to have a permanent presence in DC. When we read stories about congregations in historic spacesthat are forced to close, we think there may be a role for UAS in partnering with these community organizations to make both of our organizations sustainable.
We dream of a day when we can share or own a UAS teaching farm, preferably inside the District, that can be designed and built up by students, educators, and our Squad community. Yes, we’ll need running water and some basic indoor space, but we strongly believe the rest can be built and grown. We have made incredible progress as a mobile learning lab, partnering with community organizations and leveraging community resources to create high-quality programs. We would love to develop a permanent partnership that allows us to create a living, breathing space for hands-on learning.
We want a real-life Squadmobile! That is, a fuel-efficient vehicle that would function as a mobile storage space AND a mobile learning lab that we can take to programs, events, and use to create pop-up educational opportunities all over the city and the surrounding areas. We would also use it to experiment with bringing the UAS model to other local cities, like Philadelphia. With a mobile learning lab that would store educational supplies, Squad snacks, and first aid—tricked out with our famous logo, OF COURSE!—we can venture out to share the Squad love and hike with students and families as we learn about local history, the environment, public transportation systems, architecture and design, the arts, and much more.
We dream of long-term partnerships and scholarships that will make our organization sustainable. We are interested in creating partnerships with local medical, nursing, and social work schools, so that we can introduce more programs in medicine, first aid, nutrition, and wellness. We would also like to be able to provide additional support to students with learning or behavioral challenges who cannot currently access our programs because they receive individualized or small-group attention at their schools. We would love for UAS to be a place where graduate students come to gain practical experience, as well as to teach UAS students.
We know you have dreams for the Squad, too! We want to hear them. And you are always welcome to visit a UAS program. Contact us about joining a morning meeting, a hike, or an afternoon session. Joyful learning is contagious, and you’ll leave happier!
Thank you for reading this, and for your support of the Squad all year round. We wish you peace, health, and time outdoors in the new year.
Happy UAS 2019!
-Elana
Elana Mintz
Founder and Executive Director
Urban Adventure Squad/Urban Learning and Teaching Center
Stay in touch in 2019!
Follow your Squad on Twitter (@UrbanAdvSquad) and Facebook (@UrbanAdvSquad).
Sign up for this e-newsletter by joining our email list
Please note our email addresses and add them to your contacts:
General UAS inquiries: [email protected]
Elana Mintz, Executive Director: [email protected]
Christy Brock, Director of Programming: [email protected]
Phone number (voicemail only): 202-455-0390
Questions, concerns, or feedback? Email [email protected]
UAS Annual Report
Welcome to 2019!
Each year, we send a New Year’s message to you, our Squad Community, to share our accomplishments and our challenges of the last year, and to let you in on our dreams for the years to come.
We hope you’ll consider this both a report and an invitation; if you read something in here that inspires you, troubles you, or makes your curious, we want to hear from you. Our best ideas have come from conversations with people who are interested in our work and our success. You can email us at [email protected] or you can contact me (Elana Mintz) directly at [email protected].
If you’re reading this, you’re one of over 1100 people who receives the “UAS Update,” an e-newsletter we started in 2014—the year that we first incorporated Urban Adventure Squad—with a distribution list of 12. That has led some of you to shower us with praise about how far we’ve come, and how much we’ve grown. It’s true, and we appreciate it! But we remain a tiny nonprofit, with a full-time staff of two, a part-time educator staff of about six, a six-member Board of Directors, and we face the significant challenge of growing carefully, with very limited resources.
In 2019, we’ll work on expanding our network of volunteers, developing a grant and grant-writing strategy, hiring additional program educators to support our new work inside of several local schools, and hiring a third full-time employee—a deputy director of programming—if our budget can support it.
We are seeking advice from experts in the nonprofit, private, and public sectors, and as we do, we are making decisions that allow us to reduce some of the time we spend on operations. For example, after four years of volunteer accounting help, we were finally able to hire an accounting firm, which means that my husband, Sunil Dasgupta, can focus on what he loves best—finding new and crazy ways to encourage our Squad to learn its way through DC by embracing carpentry, physics, new gardening techniques, and much more, and identifying new partnerships that expand our educational opportunities.
We also moved to a direct deposit system for UAS employee paychecks. This may seem like a small change, but being able to sustain monthly banking fees of $35-40 was a big step for us, and it was a big administrative relief to stop writing and distributing checks.
We hope to have the budget to move to an automated registration system before our school-year registration begins for the 2019-20 school year. Too much of the work we do behind the scenes is manual because we have not yet been able to afford more sophisticated software. And families would benefit from a dashboard system that allows them to review and update their information. We’re working on making this dream a reality!
UAS PROGRAMMING AND SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS IN 2018
In 2018, we registered almost 550 children for our full-day and summer programs, and engaged hundreds of new students through new school partnerships with Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School (Brookland Campus), where Urban Adventure Squad is implementing a year-long grant; Creative Minds International PCS, where we have developed and led garden education programs, and DC Bilingual PCS, where we are working with the school to development a new model of afterschool programming that is integrated with the school’s curriculum, and which increases students’ outdoor time with enriching learning experiences.
We ran 82 full-day, out-of-school-time programs in 2018. In 2017, we ran 120. A big issue we faced in the first half of 2018 was having to cancel underenrolled programs—usually for a single school where an administrator or small group of families were interested, but where UAS had limited outreach. We want to run as many programs as we can to support local families, but we’re generally unable to cover our costs without at least a minimum of 10 enrolled students.
To minimize disruptions, we list underenrolled programs as “tentative” on our website, www.urbanadventuresquad.org, and monitor them closely so that we can reach out to families and work on increasing registration or, when necessary, cancel them at least one week in advance.
We are always willing to try new programs for new school communities! We open registration for our school-year programs over the summer, and if you’d like to see us on days when your school is closed during the 2019-20 school year, please reach out to us as soon as possible so that we can identify an appropriate location and an effective way to reach families in your community.
Although we ran fewer full-day programs, we finally achieved a long-term goal, which is to support schools with programming that is aligned with their curriculum.
Moving inside schools. The Squad was created to support working families, and to fill the 70-day gap between how often parents work (about 250 days per year) and how often children attend school (about 180 days per year). The gap causes a significant financial and logistical strain for families.
But our goal was always to bring our model of community-based, experiential learning to the school curriculum itself. We have made progress in that direction by moving inside schools in 2018—from our garden classroom at Creative Minds, where grades PK-3 to 8 rotated through the garden during the school day, to our grant-funded curriculum work for grades K-5 at Elsie Whitlow Stokes, to our programs for grades 1-5 at DC Bilingual, we are supporting students, teachers, administrators, and their families with lesson plans and field trips that are aligned with the schools’ curricula.
At Creative Minds, for example, UAS educators planned weekly middle school science classes for grade 6, 7, and 8 in the spring and fall of 2018. Administrators included us in staff meetings and professional development days so that we could create relationships with members of the teaching staff.
Community organizations and guest educators. In 2018, we continued to find new ways to partner with people, businesses, and nonprofits all over Washington, D.C., to offer our students the best possible outdoors-focused, hands-on learning experiences. Here is just a small sampling of our 2018 adventures:
- We learned about owls from Paula Goldberg of City Wildlife, as part of our “Harry Potter and Herbology” summer week.
- We made “Zero Waste Potato Salad” with Peter Fox of Wagshal’s as part of our Pop-up Restaurant Week and as part of our efforts to focus on reducing food waste.
- While at Gallaudet University for a summer session, we befriended a student who came to see us during morning dropoff to teach us new ASL words and phrases.
- Thanks to the generosity of local bus company Chariots for Hire and an anonymous donor, we were able to kickstart a campaign to take the Squad’s first-ever chartered bus trip outside of DC. Almost 50 students spent Emancipation Day at the Harriet Tubman Visitor Center and Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, immersing ourselves in local history, meeting with park rangers, and learning about the environment that Tubman fearlessly navigated.
- We took a boat ride on the Anacostia River with Living Classrooms as part of the Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail Steward Program.
- We hid geocaches all over DC as part of our “50 States Project”—a long-term UAS effort to hide geocaches on all of the city’s streets that are named after states. This project was the brainchild of Christy Brock, and it broadened our Squad community to many people who would not otherwise know the Squad. We use geocaching as a teaching tool to discover local history, culture, and architecture, and to talk about game strategy.
- We took a comics workshop at Fantom Comics in Dupont Circle during our “Animation Station summer session.
- We took a tour of local food incubator Mess Hall with its founder, Al Goldberg.
- We visited local museums for special tours as part of our Squad work, including the National Building Museum’s “Making Room: Housing for a Changing America,” and the Renwick Gallery’s “No Spectators.”
- We cleaned our local neighborhoods and waterways following staff participation in Adopt-a-Stream Training with the Alice Ferguson Foundation, Rock Creek Conservancy, and the DC Department of Energy and Environment.
- We went on a neighborhood walk with urban forager April Thompson, who taught UAS students to identify wild plants and flowers and understand their medicinal and nutritional properties.
UAS staff and volunteers. UAS Squad Leaders, the educators who lead our programs, are the heart of our organization. In addition to leading our full-day programs across DC, they now go into classrooms and teach outdoors at several local schools. At Elsie Whitlow Stokes, for example, we are working in classrooms and outdoors to teach students about stormwater runoff and pollution in our waterways, and our role in protecting our environment. UAS educators create a culture of stewardship, and encourage students to ask hard questions and tackle pressing social problems. And we're always ready for an impromptu talent show!
UAS program educators include undergraduate and graduate students, current and former teachers, and part-time employees. Their background and experiences—in science, math, the humanities, theater, and more—offer endless learning opportunities for children in our programs.
We are currently recruiting additional educators for our programs. We look for smart, creative, engaging people who love children and who love teaching and learning outdoors. I encourage you to review and share our job description: www.urbanadventuresquad.org/job-opportunity
High school volunteer network. We have begun accepting high school volunteers for our programs, who can earn SSL hours for their work. If you know a great high school student who loves working with children and being outdoors, and who would like to gain experience with a local nonprofit, please have them get in touch with us.
Volunteer opportunities. Some of you have reached out over the past year to offer your help, and to help us with special projects or events. THANK YOU! We need help with just about everything, including coordinating volunteer educational, development, and administrative work. Sometimes we are so busy that we’re not able to delegate the work that we’d love to get done. If you’re interested in working on one-off or regular volunteer opportunities, or in coordinating other volunteers, we’d love to hear from you!
Communications and outreach. In 2018, we found ourselves in the exciting position of being written about, instead of just writing about ourselves! In February, UAS will be featured in an issue of Washingtonian that will focus on urban camps, and just this month, Lindsay Russell, a junior at American University studying political science and journalism, published her final journalism project on our work. You can read her story here:
The Academic Calendar Families Really Need: how one nonprofit is bridging the gap between workday and school day
We expanded our presence on social media by joining Facebook, which has allowed us to reach new audiences, experts, UAS partners, and fellow nonprofits, as we’ve been doing on Twitter since 2015. We hope you’ll follow us, too! We’re @UrbanAdvSquad on both Twitter and Facebook.
If you have feedback on ways to reach new audiences efficiently and inexpensively, we’d love to hear them: [email protected]
If you have experience with communications/outreach or website work and would like to volunteer with us, please email us: [email protected].
GRANTS AND FUNDRAISING
Perhaps the most exciting development this year was that UAS won our first grant—a $20,000 Community Stormwater Solutions Grant from the D.C. Department of Energy and Environment for our project, “D.C.’s Hidden Waterways.” The grant supports the development and implementation of a curriculum for students in kindergarten through 5th grades at Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School. You can read more about the grant and our fellow grantees here: https://doee.dc.gov/service/community-stormwater-solutions-grants
We cannot understate the importance of this grant to our growth as an organization, both because of the financial support and because it allows us to advance the mission that we have pursued since we started—to support families and schools with community-based, experiential learning programs, and to integrate this outdoors-focused work into the traditional school curriculum.
For many of the children we’ll be working with through the remainder of the school year, the prospect of a swimmable and fishable Anacostia is within reach before they complete their formal education. Fostering a culture of stewardship among schoolchildren in Washington, D.C., will be essential to helping us get there!
Individual donations.In 2018, we received almost $7000 in individual donations, which includesjust over $2300 in donations since we launched our year-end fundraising campaign in early November, and $1200 from a wonderful, sweaty fundraiser that we held in March, thanks to the generosity of Northwest Sport & Health and the dedication of our director of programming, Christy Brock, who arranged the partnership and brought together a fantastic team of instructors.
We are grateful to every one of our donors, and we truly treasure every dollar we receive because we know that it is a statement of trust in UAS. We will continue to ask for support in 2019 to expand scholarship opportunities and to support our programs. We hope we can count on you!
Plans for 2019 and beyond. The new year is a wonderful and necessary time to reflect on where we succeeded and where we fell short, and to dream of what we want to achieve together. With your support—your ideas, your financial support, your feedback, and your program registrations—we have come so far.
We have formed school partnerships because of parents who have loved our work during full-day programs and wanted us to be a more permanent presence in their school, and we’ve tried out dozens of new program ideas and lesson plans because one of you said, “You know what would be so cool…?”
We have worked harder to find creative, efficient ways to raise money so that we can create a fund that allows us to offer tuition assistance more liberally. It’s still difficult, and as we raise more, we need to do a better job of finding families who need us and offering them real scholarship support.
We are currently working on expanding partnerships, and have the good fortune to be working with not one, but two local historic landmarks—Lincoln’s Cottage and Tudor Place—where we will be holding programs in 2019.
We are getting ready to open registration for what we hope will be a banner UAS Summer 2019! Stay tuned for an email within a week.
Here are a few long-term goals we’re working on:
We want to consider ways for UAS to have a permanent presence in DC. When we read stories about congregations in historic spacesthat are forced to close, we think there may be a role for UAS in partnering with these community organizations to make both of our organizations sustainable.
We dream of a day when we can share or own a UAS teaching farm, preferably inside the District, that can be designed and built up by students, educators, and our Squad community. Yes, we’ll need running water and some basic indoor space, but we strongly believe the rest can be built and grown. We have made incredible progress as a mobile learning lab, partnering with community organizations and leveraging community resources to create high-quality programs. We would love to develop a permanent partnership that allows us to create a living, breathing space for hands-on learning.
We want a real-life Squadmobile! That is, a fuel-efficient vehicle that would function as a mobile storage space AND a mobile learning lab that we can take to programs, events, and use to create pop-up educational opportunities all over the city and the surrounding areas. We would also use it to experiment with bringing the UAS model to other local cities, like Philadelphia. With a mobile learning lab that would store educational supplies, Squad snacks, and first aid—tricked out with our famous logo, OF COURSE!—we can venture out to share the Squad love and hike with students and families as we learn about local history, the environment, public transportation systems, architecture and design, the arts, and much more.
We dream of long-term partnerships and scholarships that will make our organization sustainable. We are interested in creating partnerships with local medical, nursing, and social work schools, so that we can introduce more programs in medicine, first aid, nutrition, and wellness. We would also like to be able to provide additional support to students with learning or behavioral challenges who cannot currently access our programs because they receive individualized or small-group attention at their schools. We would love for UAS to be a place where graduate students come to gain practical experience, as well as to teach UAS students.
We know you have dreams for the Squad, too! We want to hear them. And you are always welcome to visit a UAS program. Contact us about joining a morning meeting, a hike, or an afternoon session. Joyful learning is contagious, and you’ll leave happier!
Thank you for reading this, and for your support of the Squad all year round. We wish you peace, health, and time outdoors in the new year.
Happy UAS 2019!
-Elana
Elana Mintz
Founder and Executive Director
Urban Adventure Squad/Urban Learning and Teaching Center
Stay in touch in 2019!
Follow your Squad on Twitter (@UrbanAdvSquad) and Facebook (@UrbanAdvSquad).
Sign up for this e-newsletter by joining our email list
Please note our email addresses and add them to your contacts:
General UAS inquiries: [email protected]
Elana Mintz, Executive Director: [email protected]
Christy Brock, Director of Programming: [email protected]
Phone number (voicemail only): 202-455-0390
Questions, concerns, or feedback? Email [email protected]