Chewonki By the Numbers

Fiscal Year 2020 Annual Report

Greetings from the Chair of the Board

Just past the one-year anniversary of a year like no other, I am excited to celebrate the plans we are making on Chewonki Neck for the return of campers and trippers this summer.  

I am so proud of staff leaders, and the teaching, administrative, technical, and facilities teams who have brought relentless creativity and resourcefulness to the work of delivering well-crafted and engaging programs in the course of the last year. 

Students in our local Waypoint program in RSU 1, day students in our elementary and middle school, and high school juniors in our residential semester program, all returned to in-person learning last September and have enjoyed healthy, active, rigorous, and joyful education all year long.

Thanks to the care and attention of our able professionals, and the confidence we have in the guiding principles of place-based, experiential programs, our students continue to study just as they always have, outdoors and engaged.

Having enjoyed Camp Chewonki@Home last August with our 9-year-old grandson and the virtual company of hundreds of families from across the country and world, I know firsthand how much fun can be had with an eager kid who wants to be outside and active, learning and having a good time. How exciting to know that in summer 2021, our boys camp and our new girls camp will be filled with children ready for adventures. 

COVID-19 will task us all for a while longer with protocols and precautions, but our summer and our school year will be replete with children enjoying new adventures and skills, new friends and familiar faces, great food, great stories, beautiful mornings and evenings, tales from the past, and hopes for the future.

I am ever grateful to the trustees and advisors who readily joined staff and President Willard Morgan this past year to sustain Chewonki and make it even better while facing the many challenges of program delivery and simultaneously maintaining the health of our students, each other, and the financial stability of the foundation.

And I am grateful to everyone in the Chewonki community who has generously supported our pandemic recovery fund, sustained their annual giving, and made an extra gift in this challenging time. Your generosity has made it possible for us to continue to meet and exceed our always high standards with a renewed focus on social justice that underpins all our work together.

I am honored to be part of this team.

Roseanne Saalfield
Chair of the Board

Roseanne Saalfield

Roseanne Saalfield
Chair of the Board

Chewonki Trustees and Advisors

Chair of the Board

Roseanne Saalfield

Vice Chairs of the Board

Michael Fleisher

Liz Mygatt

Treasurer of the Board

Jeff Eberle

Clerk of the Board

Dan Townley

President of the Foundation

Willard Morgan (Ex officio)

Secretary of the Foundation

Anne Schlitt (Ex officio)

Trustees

Julius Alexander
Laura Appell-Warren
D. Scott Beebe, Jr.
Davis Benedict
Kevin Connors
Jeffrey L. Eberle
Michael Fleisher
Jay Gudebski
André Heard
Gordon Hall III
Richard Krantz
Rebecca E. Marvil
J. Bailey McCallum
Suzanne McGinn
Elizabeth Mygatt
Alyssa Pei
M.T. Charkie Quarcoo
Susan T. Rodriguez
Roseanne Saalfield
Karen Scheu
Joseph C. Selle
Dan Townley
John Warren

Honorary Trustees

Harwood Ellis, Jr.
Robert L. Elmore, Jr.
William B. Hetzel, Jr.
Kevin W. Kennedy
Joshua D. Marvil
Fay Lampert Shutzer
Gary Spiess
William B. Tyler
Jean T. Wilkinson

Advisors

Kenden Alfond
Edward Barker
Richard Barth
Bridget Besaw
Harold K. Burnett
Samuel C. Buttrick
E. Barton Chapin III
Darron Collins
Katharine (Kate) Coon
Paul A. Crowell
Theodore Deinard
Jeffrey Desjarlais
Isabelle de Trabuc Smith
Richard DiBianca
Kirstin G. Edelglass
K.C. Golden
Charles B. Gordy II
Genevieve E. Gudebski
Joshua Hahn
Danielle Heard
W. Donald Hudson, Jr.
Jim Justice
Enyi-Abal Koene

 

Gerrit Lansing
David Liebmann
Warren M. Little
Ariane Lotti
Lydia Maier
Erin Quinn Martin
Laird McCulloch
Carrie Judd Miller
Wylie L. Mitchell
Malin Pinsky
Stephen Chartey Quarcoo
B. Justin F. Reich
A. Sydney Roberts
Sophia Shaw
Claiborne B. Smith
Jasmine W. Smith
Elana Snow
Benjamin W. Spiess
Benjamin Thompson
David Vail
Dale C. Wright

Chewonki Schools

Chewonki Elementary and Middle School

0
Students

Maine Coast Semester at Chewonki

0
Students

Camp Chewonki

Camp Chewonki for Boys

Canceled Due to Covid

Camp Chewonki for Girls

Camp Chewonki for Girls

Canceled Due to Covid

Camp Chewonki Leadership Expeditions

Canceled Due to Covid

Community Programs

Chewonki Outdoor Classroom

0
Students

Chewonki Waypoint Program

0
Students

Chewonki Traveling Natural History

0
Participants

Special Programs Due to the Pandemic

Camp Chewonki@Home

0
Virtual Campers

Natural History Livestreams

0
Minutes Viewed

Rentals and Adventure Travel

Chewonki's Big Eddy Campground

0
Visitors

Cooking for our Community

When the covid-19 crisis began, we reached out to our local hunger relief organizations asking, “What do you need? How can we be helpful?”

We were grateful to be able to utilize the talent and resources of our kitchen staff and farm crew to support our neighbors during this challenging time, contributing many thousands of pounds of fresh and prepared foods to local food pantries including: 

  • Bath Area Food Pantry
  • Mid Coast Hunger Prevention
  • St. Philip’s Help-Yourself-Shelf
Milk

We also appreciate United Way of Midcoast Maine which awarded Chewonki a $5,000 grant in May to help support our work with local food banks. 

0
lbs.
Winter Squash
0
lbs.
Onions
0
gal.
Milk
0
lbs.
Potatoes
0
Granola Bars
0
lbs.
Carrots
0
Bags of Granola
0
Flats of Eggs
0
Loaves of Bread
0
lbs.
Cherry Tomatoes
0
lbs.
Lettuce
0
lbs.
Summer Squash
0
lbs.
Sweet Cabbage
0
lbs.
Spinach
0
lbs.
Green Beans
0
lbs.
Nappa Cabbage
0
lbs.
Kale
0
lbs.
Bok Choi
0
lbs.
Chard
0
lbs.
Eggplants
0
lbs.
Broccoli
0
lbs.
Cucumbers
0
lbs.
Dinner Rolls
0
lbs.
Beets
0
lbs.
Mustard Greens
0
lbs.
Slicer Tomatoes
0
lbs.
Celeriac
0
lbs.
Red Cabbage
0
lbs.
Peppers
0
lbs.
Leeks
0
lbs.
Snap Peas
0
lbs.
Basil
0
lbs.
Collards
0
lbs.
Daikon Raddish
0
lb.
Herbs

Energy Generation

Over the past five years, we have significantly reduced our C02 emissions and increased the production of solar electricity megawatts here on campus.

In 2015, we produced 20 megawatt hours (Mwh) of solar electricity. In 2020, we produced 106.79 MWh! Our carbon output last year has been likewise been reduced by 380 tons because of solar generation, and we’ve replaced the equivalent of 68.6 barrels of oil with good ole sunshine.

If you’d like to learn more about our solar generation system, you can find real-time date online: https://revisionenergy.solarlog-web.net/chewonki/

Farm & Food

Chickens

Total Chickens

182

Firewood

Cords of Firewood

10

Horses

Total Horses

2

Cows

Total Cows

8

Sheep

Total Sheep

34

Turkeys

No Turkeys This Year!

Onions

Total Onions

1641 lbs.

Eggs

Total Eggs

32,501

Cucumbers

Total Cucumbers

168.5 lbs.

Yarn

Skeins of Yarn

1002

Tomatoes

Total Tomatoes

3322 lbs.

Winter Squash

Total Winter Squash

2749 lbs.

Carrots

Total Carrots

1659 lbs.

Wool

Total Wool Gathered

63 lbs.

Milk

Total Milk

1873 Gal.

Leafy Greens

Total Greens

548 lbs.

Potatoes

Total Potatoes

2233 lbs.

Pigs

Total Pigs

14

Financial Aid

Thank You!

Thanks to the generous support of our community, we were able to provide over $807,793 in financial aid and program discounts in FY2020. This amount is somewhat decreased from a normal year due to the closure of our Camp Chewonki and Outdoor Classroom programs. 

We are committed to making Chewonki programs accessible to participants from every walk of life, from across our nation, and from around the world. Thank you for making this possible!

Charitable Contributions

Special Thanks

Our special thanks to these grantors:

  • Abele Family Foundation, Inc.
  • Aldermere Foundation
  • Ecology School
  • Elmina B. Sewall Foundation
  • Emanuel & Pauline Lerner Foundation
  • Onion Foundation
  • United Way of Mid Coast Maine

Endowment

Total Endowment: $11,741,784

Investing for the Long-Term

 

Thanks to dedicated giving by donors each year, sound financial management by our partners at Bath Savings Trust Company, and favorable market returns, we have seen strong growth of the endowment in recent years.

Revenue

Expenses

Capital Projects

With Special Thanks to All of You

Like everyone, COVID-19 presented us with a monumental challenge this year.  We were forced to cancel some programs and modify or delay others in order to provide a safe space for our participants and staff. 

Through every challenging moment, our network of friends and alumni continued to step forward and lend a hand to ensure we can continue to provide the Chewonki programs you know and love. 

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. We are eagerly looking forward to a day in the near future when we can resume normal operations, and once again welcome you to visit and share the beauty of this place and the transformative magic of these programs. 

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