Coordinating Partners

Coordinating partners are organizations that coordinate and host a PA Master Naturalist volunteer training course at their facility.

The Institute provides curriculum training, materials and program support for coordinating partners in each ecoregion.

Coordinating partners in the Southeastern and Coastal Plains ecoregion (southeastern PA):
    Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education and Philadelphia Parks and Recreation (Philadelphia     County)
    Silver Lake Nature Center (Bucks County)
    The Land Conservancy for Southern Chester County and Bucktoe Creek Preserve (Chester County)


If you are part of an organization that would be interested in offering a Master Naturalist volunteer training course at your facility, please contact Gail Farmer, Director of Programs (gfarmer@piceweb.org; 570-764-7628), to discuss a coordinating partnership.   

Program Partners are organizations, agencies and institutions that provide inkind support, such as instructors, materials, facilities, staff time, vehicles, etc.

Academy of Natural Sciences

Environmental Protection Agency

Philadelphia Parks and Recreation

Philadelphia/Camden Informal Science Collaborative

Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center & the Philadelphia Water Dept.

New Jersey Academy of Aquatic Sciences

Stroud Water Research Center

Philadelphia Zoo

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Delaware Estuary office

Regional Advisory Councils provide guidance on the development and growth of the regional Master Naturalist program.

Southeastern and Coastal Plains:

Academy of Natural Sciences

Audubon Pennsylvania

Center in the Park, Senior Environment Corps

Environmental Protection Agency

Fairmount Park (Philadelphia Parks and Recreation)

Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center

Franklin & Marshall College

French and Pickering Creeks Conservation Trust

The Land Conservancy for Southern Chester County

Longwood Gardens

The Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania

NJ Academy of Aquatic Sciences

Pennsylvania Horticultural Society

Pennsylvania State Parks

Stroud Water Research Center

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Delaware Estuary office and Tinicum office

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National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
National Science Foundation
Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation
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