The Marie Community Center
Community Center
Why pick this one
The Marie Community Center offers an environmentally planned, biophilic campus with recreational campgrounds, edible landscaping, and educational programming.
Best for
- environmental education and nature-based programming
- weekday summer adventure camps for children
- community service and outreach activities
- social entrepreneurship and micro-business incubation
- recreation in a nature-oriented campus setting
Look elsewhere if
- general-public campus access is required immediately, because the site states that the campus is currently closed to the general public
- a fully developed educational nature center is required, because that facility is listed as under development
Specialties
- educational and recreational camps
- heart-based environmental education
- community service and outreach programs
- cultural and historical interpretation programs
- micro-business incubation
What makes them different
- Environmentally planned, biophilic, ecotherapeutic community campus
- Recreational campgrounds and campus-wide edible landscaping
- Nine full-week adventure camps scheduled in Saxapahaw from June through August
- Programs organized around engagement, education, and employment
- Equal-opportunity and multicultural education policies explicitly address disability, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, and other identities
Distilled from this business's own website.
Contact & Location
- Address
- Red Ridge, NC, 1201 Carolina St, Graham, NC 27253
- Phone
- +13362903947
- Website
- https://www.redridgenc.org/rrnccampus
- info@redridgenc.org
Services
- community engagement programs
- non-formal education
- recreational campgrounds
- environmental education
- social and environmental programs
- employment and social entrepreneurship support