Nature-based School Business Planning Course

Create a solid business plan to move your nature-based school from dream to reality

Dreaming of opening your own nature-based school, but unsure where to begin? 

这门电子课程将改变这一点!

Now is the time to move your dream to reality! This e-course on business planning guides individuals 和 organizations in the development of a written business plan outlining the steps necessary to open their own nature-based school. We’ll walk you through everything you need to know including the most common questions around licensing 和 other regulations, 竞争对手, 人员配备, 市场营销, 和更多的.

有了坚实的商业计划, you can open the doors to your nature-based school 和 have happy children thriving by learning 与 the 自然 world.

包括什么

✔ 25 video tutorials (more than 3 hours of content!) walking you through the business planning process

✔ 12 other downloadable written documents 与 information relevant to each stage of the planning process

✔ 10 worksheets to guide you through decision-making during planning

✔ A downloadable budget template (in Excel) 与 built-in formulas for start-up, capital, operating, & 家具、固定装置和设备(FF&E)费用

✔ Membership in a private FB group for other course purchasers facing similar challenges in opening a school

✔ Access all course materials whenever 和 wherever you like (And at your own pace!)

课程模块 

你会学到什么?

 

开始

In the first module you’ll identify the three core components that guide business planning. Then, we’ll guide you through the Go/No-Go Decision regarding planning.

In this module you will identify WHY the nature-based approach is appropriate for your business. We’ll then guide you through researching 和 listing the available resources in seven different categories (i.e., 自然, 建筑环境, 监管, 组织, 金融, 最后期限, 以及潜在的合作伙伴). In this step you’ll also articulate the needs of your customers 和 identify your target market(s)

收集事实

做出其他关键决定

In this third module you will decide on the best model 和 structure for your business. 它是营利性的还是非营利性的? Then, you’ll generate measurable outcomes to identify success.

Module 4 is where things start to come together. We’ll guide you through completing the plan details including generating the following subsections of the plan:

  • 编程

  • 操作

  • 地盘及楼宇

  • 市场营销

  • 金融

  • 风险分析

完成商业计划细节

把它们放在一起

In this step you’ll put all of the pieces together to create thorough, polished written business plan to use to garner investors 和 other stakeholders.

你的投资

$397

课程协调员

Rachel Larimore 和 David Catlin have extensive expertise in business start-up 和 operation—particularly as it relates to nature-based schools. 他们从2014年开始合作, they have helped many individuals 和 organizations throughout the country in establishing their own nature-based school.

Rachel’s passion 和 expertise integration of nature into early childhood education for young children’s whole development. 她写了三本书，包括 建立以自然为本的幼儿园 和 Preschool Beyond Walls: Blending Early Childhood Education 和 Nature-Based Learning.  在成立萨马拉早教之前, Rachel founded one of the nation’s earliest nature-based preschools at Chippewa Nature Center (CNC) in Midl和, MI. She continued as the director of the program until 2016 when, 在她离开时, the program served 140 children each year through public 和 private funding sources. 在CNC工作期间, Rachel led the creation of a partnership 与 Bullock Creek Schools to create a nature-based kindergarten 和 first grade 与in the public school system.

David has devoted his 35-year-long professional career to the nature center 和 environmental learning center field. 在那个时候, he worked for the Missouri Department of Conservation, helping to plan 和 launch the agency’s nature center network for six years 和 later running its Springfield Conservation Nature Center for a decade. He then signed on 与 the National Audubon Society oversaw start-up of 16 new nature center facilities across the country—evaluating sites, facilitating strategic 和 business planning, selecting architects 和 exhibit design teams, 培训员工, 和 serving as an in-house resource for problem-solving 和 question-answering. Since 2015, he has done similar work for nature centers across the U.S. through his firm David Catlin Consulting LLC.