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Sponsored by: Trekkers
Updated: September 23, 2019 2019 Giving Guide

Trekkers

2020 Goals

For 25 years, Trekkers has been providing seventh through twelfth grade students from midcoast Maine with a six-year community support network that helps young people navigate the transition to adulthood. Trekkers combines expeditionary learning, community service, and outdoor-based education, utilizing a long-term mentoring approach that honors students for who they are and what their potential makes possible. With quantifiable data on Trekkers’ ability to strengthen resiliency in adolescents, build aspirations, define post-secondary goals and increase connections between young people and their community, Trekkers launched the Trekkers Training Institute to provide more students with the opportunity to benefit from the Trekkers program model.

To that end, Trekkers is continuing to work towards ensuring more young people in Maine have access to high quality, long-term mentoring that results in:

  • Increased rates of high school graduation and enrollment and completion of post-secondary education programs
  • Thriving, resilient, self-reliant, connected, empowered, and engaged adults who are actively realizing their full potential.

Giving Opportunities

  • Invest in the future of Maine’s young people with a gift to Trekkers: www.trekkers.org/donate.
  • Become a Business sponsor: Trekkers’ offers a variety of sponsorship packages designed to meet your advertising and community-building goals.
  • Support our Scholarship fund: The Scholarship Fund was established to ensure that no student is ever turned away from a Trekkers program due to financial reasons. Your investment gives a local student the opportunity to participate in the 6-year Trekkers program year-after-year.
  • Planned Giving: Adding Trekkers to your IRA, Will, or Life Insurance Policy is a meaningful way to leave a legacy and impact the next generation.
  • Trekkers’ Compass Club: Members make monthly donations through the convenience of automatic withdrawal, helping Trekkers secure funding on an ongoing basis and helping us guide the future direction of our students.
  • In-Kind Donations: In-kind donations of, camping equipment, clothes, and office supplies are key to our success in providing experiential education programs for local youth. Please contact us if you have materials to donate that will be of value for our programs. Our wish list items include: gift cards for purchasing outdoor equipment, Thermarest inflatable sleeping pads, non-cotton fleece clothing in all sizes and office products.

Fundraising events/Opportunities

  • Trekkers’ Bid for Kids Auction: Saturday, October 26, 2019 Owls Head Transportation Museum, 117 Museum St., (Route 73) in Owls Head. Doors open at 5:00 pm. Silent auction bidding will run from 5:00-7:00pm. Live auction starts at 7:00pm $10 at the door (includes hors d’oeuvres & sweets, coffee and soft drinks)
  • Annual Thomaston Trek: Sunday, June 7, 2020 Join us for our annual 5k walk and 5/10k run! The start/finish line will be at the Thomaston Academy/Public Library. This fun, family-friendly event is perfect for all ages and levels of walkers or runners.
  • Journey into Art—A silent art auction to benefit Trekkers: Summer 2020 in Rockland, Maine. In a setting overlooking the ocean, join us for an evening of art inspired by and benefiting Trekkers.

Volunteer Opportunities

Last year, Trekkers benefited from the support of 225 volunteers who collectively donated 6,994 volunteer hours in support of this work.

  • Expedition mentor: Spend time with our students, be a positive role model, build relationships and have a blast on trips in our backyard and across the county.
  • One-to-one mentors: Connect and build a relationship with a student by spending time together in the community.
  • Tutor: Tutor a student based on your schedule and academic strength.
  • LEAP (launching empowered and aspiring professionals) program: Host students for mock interviews, share your career journey on a panel, and/or host a student for a 40-hour internship.

Leadership

Amie Hutchison: Executive Director
Stu Rich: Board President; CTO, PenBay Solutions / Parent of Trekkers Alumni

Board officers

Edmund (Dee) Megna: Board Vice President / Retired Vice Chairman, Guy Carpenter

Alyssa Rolerson: Board Secretary/COO, Dream Local Digital / Trekkers Alumna

Douglas M. Erickson, CCIM: Board Treasurer / Relator/Broker, The Masiello Group


Board Members

Bryson Cowan King: Assistant Director of Philanthropy + Engagement, Beaver Country Day School / Trekkers Alumna

Jack Carpenter: Executive Director, Youth Forum Maine / Founding Member

Susan B. Grover

Michael Hersom, DMD: President/General Dentist, Glen Cove Dental Associates / Parent of Trekkers Alumnus

Makaila Hickey: Student, Husson University / Trekkers Alumna

Wyatt Winchenbaugh: 12th Grade Student, Oceanside High School / Current Trekkers Student

Rodney Chamberlain: Retired, Senior Controller, Kelly Press, Inc.

Kathleen Meil: Policy and Partnerships Director, Maine Conservation Voters

Thomas E. Crosslin III, MD, FACS: Surgeon, MaineHealth

At a glance

Established: 1994
Employees: 10
Annual revenue: $808,618

Top funding sources

Foundations: 43%
Private Donors: 31%
Student Dues: 15%
State and Government Contracts: 7%
Business and Corporations: 4%

Contact

58 Park Street, Suite 202
Rockland, ME 04841
(207) 594-5095

trekkers.org and trekkersinstitute.org
www.facebook.com/trekkersonline
www.instagram.com/trekkersinc

Mission Statement

Cultivating the inherent strengths of young people through the power of long-term mentoring relationships.

Service Locations

Trekkers direct youth programming serves young people from the towns of Rockland, Owls Head, Cushing, Thomaston, St. Thomaston, and St. George.

The Trekkers Training Institute offers statewide and national training, coaching, and professional development opportunities.