Meet Our Partners
Lane County is home to many nonprofit organizations and many of them achieve their missions through community education. Network Charter School utilizes local, nonprofit organizations as one of the foundational pillars of our educational model. By doing so, we draw upon a relatively untapped resource of highly qualified professionals with not only content knowledge, but professional experience.
Meet our partnering Member Organizations below:
Le PETIT GOURMET (EST 1987)
Le Petit Gourmet offers a certified Culinary CTE program that creates an authentic career based learning program by serving as the school’s NSLP and SBP where the students are in charge of preparing and serving free meals to the students and staff daily.
Le Petit also supports a GED pathway that provides students a supported self-directed option for those interested in either an accelerated option to post secondary transitioning or an alternative pathway to obtaining the credits required for a general diploma option.
Le Petite’s classes are held at Network Charter School’s main campus at 2550 Portland Street in Eugene.
NEARBY NATURE (EST 1992)
Nearby Nature is a non-profit education organization dedicated to fostering appreciation of nature nearby and providing tools for ecological living.
Nearby Nature's offerings at Network Charter School integrate academics with hands-on activities, career-related skill development, field trips, and more. Our classes reflect our focus on nature and ecological sustainability, and include Life and Earth Sciences, Natural History, Topics in Mathematics and Physics, Outdoor Physical Education and Healthy Living. We visit and volunteer in green spaces throughout the city of Eugene, investigate environmental health problems, and study contemporary, real world issues.
Nearby Nature’s classes are held both at NCS’s main site on Portland Street, and at our Learnscape yurt in Alton Baker Park, where students have an opportunity to study and explore local nature directly.
To learn more visit Nearby Nature’s website.
MATERIALS EXCHANGE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ARTS (EST 2000)
MECCA is a nonprofit organization dedicated to diverting materials out of the waste stream and into the community's creative endeavors; MECCA is committed to providing public access to low-cost arts education and materials.
MECCA's classes for the Network Charter School facilitate activities for youth artists that merge creativity and environmental stewardship. Courses offering include a variety of artistic disciplines such as sculpture, printmaking, 2D&3D art, comics, and assemblage. Classes encourage creative exploration and offer the opportunity to discover new artistic pursuits while honing specific skills.
MECCA’s classes are held at its studio at 555 High Street in downtown Eugene.
For more information see MECCA’s website.
HEARTWISE COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER (EST 2015)
HeartWise Community Learning Center is a non-profit organization based in Eugene, Oregon. The group’s purpose is to innovate alternative methods of education that provide and promote a continuum of care to strengthen body, mind, and spirit.
Heartwise’s program at NCS offers a transformative education for middle and high school youth in a safe, creative, and compassionate environment. HeartWise students build inner strength as they learn to transform conflict and become mindful, responsible, and empowered adults. We integrate core curriculum with yoga and creative language arts to inspire significant change in the lives of our students. The essential goal of HeartWise is to create a setting in which the tools to build and sustain inner-peace are made available and practiced.
HeartWise’s classes are held at their Center at 1840 Willamette Street in Eugene.
For more information visit HeartWise’s website.
EVERGREEN DEVELOPMENT NETWORK (EST 2004)
Evergreen Development Network is a non-profit organization that provides student support services and administrative oversight for Network Charter School.
EDN is committed to serving the NCS community in a manner that honors and upholds the founding principals of the original charter. EDN maintains national accreditation standards, ensures alignment with ODE standards and expectations and compliance with sponsoring district charter agreements.
EDN also provides a student support team that helps holistically support students both academically and emotionally. Our Student Services Coordinator and Guidance Counselor help create a personalized educational plan for each student to help individualize each student’s academic experience. Our Holistic Wellness Practitioners help students access and utilize the social and emotional skills necessary to reach and maintain their personal best success story!
Evergreen Development’s services are maintained at Network Charter’s main campus at 2550 Portland Street in Eugene.
