Organizations Filed Purposes:
To empower underserved youth through integrated literacy and wilderness experiences.
ARC Summer Immersion Courses integrate wilderness expeditions and academic basecamps over the course of 25 and 40 days. These courses facilitate the development of essential leadership and academic skills in alternative classroom settings and outdoor adventures. Rigorous activities require physical and mental commitment and interpersonal collaboration, while building an ethos for healthy lifestyles, personal empowerment, and environmental stewardship. Challenging leadership and life-skills training focuses on self-management, goal setting, personal responsibility, teamwork, communication, and resilience. Literacy sessions develop skills in critical thinking, reading comprehension, writing, and public speaking. ARC participants respond more positively to statements including, "I am developing good health habits," and "I deal with frustration in positive ways." They also show a statistically significant increase in all four of the internal asset categories on Search Institute's Developmental Assets Profile (DAP), with the largest increases in "Commitment to Learning" and "Positive Self Identity." Additionally, ARC participants improved an average of 10% on SAT Writing and Critical Reading questions administered before and after ARC summer programming. ARC's summer alumni graduate on time from high school and attend college at much higher rates than their peers. Ninety-nine percent of ARC alumni have graduated on time from high school and 81% have gone on to attend a two-year or four-year college.
ARC Weekend Retreats offer a taste of the summer course to recruit new participants and strengthen existing relationships. Over 48 hours participants are exposed to a unique group culture: tolerant, open, and youth-driven, with a strong sense of inclusion and respect. For many participants, this is the first experience of receiving the required support for physical and emotional challenges, leadership among peers, self-reliance, teamwork, and other-centeredness. ARC weekend retreats are hosted at University of California Natural Reserves in Big Sur, Bodega Bay, Mt. Hamilton, Truckee, and Yosemite.
ARC Mentoring & College Access Support provides one-to-one relationships with participants after they graduate from ARC's summer courses. Mentors offer accountability and guidance regarding academics (grades, attendance, college planning, financial aid); and attention to personal issues (assets, needs and deficits of youth and their families). Staff provide referrals to a wide network of resources that benefit participants and their families. To create ownership, buy-in, commitment and follow-through, participants co-design their individual mentoring to meet their unique needs and account for their specific goals. Summer graduates also visit local college with ARC staff and they serve the organization as ambassadors in their communities.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Sarah Ottley | Executive Director | 32 | $51,590 |
| Will Fassett | CFO/Director of Finance | 40 | $51,569 |
| Jeff Crow | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Jessica Rivas | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Katie Zanto | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Sarah Parkes | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Kasey Mcjunkin | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Katie Burns | Secretary | 1 | $0 |
| Sergio Nevel | Treasurer | 1 | $0 |
| Brad Altman | Vice Chair | 1 | $0 |
| Liz Tucker | Board Chair | 5 | $0 |
Data for this page was sourced from XML published by IRS (
public 990 form dataset) from:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/irs-form-990/201923099349300117_public.xml