Passion For Life
Together
Annual 4-Day Event
What is Together?
A one-of-a-kind, admission-free, annual 4-day event bringing together passionate environmental, financial & health educators, public & private leadership, and children all in one space, providing education, inspiration & more. It is an amazing, inspirational gathering and collaboration amongst our passionate leadership at all levels - hence, Together.
Together focuses on 3 major epidemics our society is facing: kids on screens, climate change & financial illiteracy (the lack of financial mentors instilling the habits of financial success in our youth).
Did you know...
RE SOCIAL MEDIA & SCREEN TIME…
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The average kid is on screens about 8 hours DAILY!
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People are more disconnected from nature than EVER BEFORE!
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Childhood anxiety, depression, suicide, obesity, diabetes have SKYROCKETED!
RE CLIMATE CHANGE…
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The Gulf of Maine is warming more quickly than 97% of all other bodies of water on Earth!
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The opportunity to showcase cutting edge careers - green energy, aquaculture - is greater than ever before!
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Maine is uniquely positioned to benefit - but the risk is not acting quickly enough!
RE FINANCIAL LITERACY…
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You can be smart, brilliant even, but if you do not develop good habits, you are toast (Allagash-speak).
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You don't decide your future; you decide your habits, and your habits decide your future.
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What percentage of kids do you think have instilled in them habits that lead to tremendous financial independence?
At Together, we will:
1- Educate parents, kids, mentors & leadership on the impact of social media and screen time on kids.
2- Educate kids, mentors & leadership on the local, national & global impact of climate change.
3- Educate kids, mentors & leadership, demystifying the habits of financially successful people and showing them how to instill such habits in the youth they oversee and interact with daily.
4- Introduce kids, mentors & leadership to over 20 outdoor passions (examples include: shed hunting, metal detecting, spin, bait, flycasting, gold panning, ice fishing, land & sea foraging, hiking, skiing, camping) & inspire them to be more active, to fall in love with an outdoor passion.
5- Unveil and showcase to our youth the amazing, cutting edge career opportunities in green energy, aquaculture & other industries that Maine is so uniquely positioned to benefit from.
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If you have questions, input, would like to volunteer, would like to present, would like to be involved in any way, shape or form, please contact me.
This is about spreading knowledge, bringing people Together, embracing these challenges Together, and taking action Together. Education, awareness & leadership IS the solution to these epidemics, these crises.
I'm doing my part. All I'm asking is for those who care to do theirs. Only Together will we win the war. And it needs to be waged aggressively, NOW.
Allagash
207.415.4757
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2024 Minimum Attendance Goals
KIDS
BGCs 100
Teen Centers 100
Ethnic Groups 100
Schools 500
800
LEADERS
Superintendents 5
Principals 20
Teachers 50
Parents 200
Mentors 100
Organizations 25
Political 25
State (IFW, DMR, MDOE) 15
440
EXPERT VOLUNTEERS
Climate Change 5
Financial Literacy 5
Social Media & Screens 5
Outdoor Passions 20
35
SUPPORT VOLUNTEERS
Climate Change 3
Financial Literacy 3
Social Media & Screens 3
Outdoor Passions 5
14
Want to Learn More?
COORDINATE AN OUTING WITH ALLAGASH AND HIS VOLUNTEERS, CHOOSING A SPECIFIC OUTDOOR PASSION.
George Gooley, aka Allagash George
Executive Director
Passion For Life - 501(C)(3)
245 Broadway # 101
South Portland, ME 04106
207.415.4757
