As 2009 draws to a close at Sierra Nevada Journeys, we have so much to be thankful for. In 2009, thanks to supporters like you, we have been able to serve over 6,000 students with over 104,000 hours of hands-on education, and we’ve had the ability to provide our life changing programming to every school, student, and family that has requested it, regardless of economic situation. Thirty-six percent of students served are on their school’s Free & Reduced Price Lunch program (i.e. their parents can’t afford to send them to school with lunch each day). A mother recently wrote to us after sending her son, a boy she identified as having special needs, to our programming. She stated that after his Sierra Nevada Journeys experience he was “a changed boy. Matthew stood taller with more confidence and wore a genuine smile that spread to his eyes. The sight warmed my heart.” With your support, Sierra Nevada Journeys aims to bring that same empowerment and confidence to youth throughout Northern Nevada and Northern California.

Please join us in inspiring students to want to learn again, and please consider Sierra Nevada Journeys in your year-end, holiday giving. Below you will find how your gift can make a difference. You can give online at http://www.sierranevadajourneys.org/get-involved/donations/ or by sending a check to 1301 Cordone Avenue, Suite 200, Reno, NV 89502. Thank you for helping us make a difference in our community, and in our world.

The following gift amounts* represent the difference you can make with your contribution:
• $25 supports an hour of in-class or after- school instruction for two students.
• $50 supports a student who will explore the outdoors as part of a Classrooms Unleashed field study.
• $100 supports one student’s 6-hour journey to understanding what a watershed is and why it’s important.
• $250 supports a classroom of students engaging in a hands-on watershed, energy or earth science lesson.
• $1,000 supports four students’ fees to experience our life-changing, week-long, residential outdoor school.

*These dollar amounts represent an approximate cost of our programs. However, your gift will go toward all of our educational programming and the costs associated with making them happen.

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