Thanks to each and every one of you who have contributed financially to help create the safe harbor impacts within our communities, and within Cobscook Institute itself, that are reflected upon in this edition of Cobscook Currents. Cobscook Institute’s ongoing legacy of creating responsive educational opportunities that strengthen personal, community, and global well-being is only possible with your generous support. To you, our continued supporters, we need you now more than ever. If you are new to Cobscook Institute and find these storylines inspirational, please become a member of our absolutely essential circle of support.

Gifts of every size make a difference. Folk singer Pete Seeger’s hauntingly beautiful song, “One Grain of Sand,” reminds us that every act, every being, matters. Cobscook Institute needs your support; it needs us all to do what we can to help it weather these stormy times.

By giving what you can now, you sustain the very personal impacts exemplified in the words you have read from our Cobscook Experiential Program students, from COVID-isolated community members like Diane and Ed, and from Cobscook Institute staff members like Michelle, for whom work here is so much more than the essential gift of having a job. Your gift combines to create very personal and real safe harbors such as these.

Your generous 2020 gift sustains current programs and impacts while allowing our staff, board, and collaborating partners to plan and prepare for post-COVID times. Your gift allows our Retreat Center staff to work with community and client partners from near and far to prepare for a future when we are once again able to congregate–safely–to learn and share together in beautiful and welcoming settings as exemplified by our Trescott, Maine campus and larger region. The TREE team will offer courses and workshops on the Cobscook Institute campus and global initiatives, such as the Transformation Systems Mapping & Analysis work that Glenn describes, will be well-served by being able to converge and learn in the Gulf of Maine utilizing our campus as a home base.

As Jennifer reflected, this work shows that humans can do amazing things in the most remote places around the world. An investment in Cobscook Institute is an investment in support of rural communities everywhere. Your support is essential to keep that spirit burning bright as we shelter in the safe harbor that we are creating–together.

Visit cobscookinstitute.org/donate or call (207) 733-2233 to make a one-time or monthly gift or learn about gifts of stock and giving through your will.

Thank you for being a part of this essential work.