Thursday, October 3, 2013

The School vs. Eastside GardenWorks

Two competing ideas:

Businesshome school classes for middle-school aged kids

Non-profit: farming/employment/personal development/systems thinking program for at-risk youth, modeled after SYGW and similar programs but for the Eastside

The tuition for the school is expensive -- upwards of $90 per day per kid. The cost per kid per year would be ~$12,000. The salaries for 2 FTE's would be approximately $35,000 and $25,000.

The expenses per year per kid for the nonprofit would be
Kids per year (continuing quarter-to-quarter): 14
Staff: 2 FTE + 1 Americorps
Annual expenses: $220,000 (including youth wages of $65,000)
Annual revenues: $20,000
Cost: $200,000
Cost/kid: $14,200 per year (including $4,600 youth wages)

Key Educational Themes:

  • Systems thinking (economics, ecosystems, self) for understanding the world
  • Financial Management -- use systems thinking concepts
  • Based around the homestead rather than the commercial farm -- Oikonomaia
  • Work skills and Intro to Entrepreneurship
  • Nutrition and Health -- CSA for pregnant women



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