Of love, learning, and soil: A farm and garden update

When Demeter, the Greek Goddess of harvest, grain, and fertility, lost her daughter, Persephone, the Goddess of springtime and vegetation, she cast the world into a great famine.  Hades, the God of the Underworld had kidnapped Persephone and insisted on keeping her with him forever. Finally, it was decided to allow Persephone to return to the world, but for four months of each year, she would again descend to the Underworld with Hades.  These four months are when nothing grows during winter. 

Many ancient cultures recognized, and explained through myths and legends, this dark period of the year, and celebrated the point when the natural world once again began to stir from under winter’s weight. The Ancient Celtic people marked this significant date, when plants began to grow again, February 2nd  , as the celebratory Imbolc day .

During this dark season, the Persephone season as many agriculturalists know it, with less than 10 hours of light per day in this hemisphere, plant leaf growth comes to a near halt.  However, come Imbolc, it begins to increase with ever growing vigor. Otto Specht students have come to know this holiday as the one dearest to my heart. The high school students have been maintaining cut and come back crops, like lettuce, spinach, mustard, and chard in the greenhouses, and selling them to the Café through the winter as part of their study of the economics of food production, while other students have grown a bounty of head lettuce for the Fellowship Community kitchen.

Preceding Imbolc, mornings on the farm are spent harvesting the last of the winter cash crops and preparing the beds for the next crop rotation of high yield, high return plants, listening to stories of mythological characters from Ancient Greece and the gods’ and goddesses’ roles in our season. Students explore, intellectually, the geologic explanations of the Persephone season, and experience through their own senses of perception, its effects on the plants they tend.  They revere the Ancient Celts’ powers of observation of the Natural World, and gratefully make this ancient wisdom their own. Sharing in the plant world’s joy and excitement for making it through another winter and anticipating the coming warmth of the sun in Spring and Summer, they hurriedly get more seeds in the ground and start seedlings for transplanting. Imbolc is as much the welcomed and celebrated culminating day of this dark season for OSS students today, as I imagine it was for the Celts so very long ago.

Imbolc also designates the time of year when the life sap of trees begins to flow again, more specifically Sugar Maple Trees.  A spot in the woods where a large red maple has fallen is now the site of many industrious hands busily using axes, hatches, and saws to remove the limbs of this tree and process them for burning in our outdoor maple syrup cooking pit.  The love of sweet maple syrup ignites the appreciation for the forest, the gift of the fallen tree, reverence for tools, and the compassion and solidarity of their fellow humans as they work together towards a goal. At the end of it all, OSS will gather together and enjoy a pancake party, with more than enough syrup to go around.

It is no wonder Valentine’s Day falls in the middle of this cold month. Love is in the intention the students put into the growth and maintenance of the garden and its plants, the harvest and drying process of the plants, and the transformation into a useful product. Love is in the delicate tending of our growing plants over winter and in bringing the fresh salad greens to the community. Love is in the new life being placed into the ground as seeds. Love is coming through the darkness together, with shared hopes and goals, even if the goal is sometimes as simple as maple syrup.  Love is witnessing, in the students’ interactions and in their appreciation for the natural world, the true magic of their education unfolding. And this education, this living, growing, dynamic pedagogy, is itself, essentially, a manifestation of love.

Tiger Day at Otto Specht School

A New Partnership

On a cold, November day, a group of very excited students from Otto Specht School and Endeavor 21+ entered Tiger Schulmann’s Martial Arts Headquarters in Elmwood, NJ, admiring the equipment, the framed magazine covers and photos of champion fighters trained by TSMA. They sat down on the benches and took their shoes off and waited for one of the trainers to take them to the mat for training. Each student had an opportunity to learn one on one, and the students and the instructors had so much fun getting to know each other. Once everyone had an opportunity, the whole group participated in a fun-filled movement class. They stretched, did an obstacle course, and played games. Students were focused, engaged, and smiling. Trainers were enjoying themselves immensely as well, smiling, laughing, and keeping the class moving at just the right pace. Everyone left a little sweatier than they came, relaxed, happy, and feeling strong, capable, and successful.

A Lasting Friendship

In the 1990's, while living and working in NYC, I trained at Tiger Schulmann's MMA which, at the time was located on 19th street. Responding to a need for creative movement classes for young children, I worked with my instructor to enhance and revamp the Tiger Cubs program. This program focused on tumbling, running, balancing and imaginative movement through story and imagery. The children moved at their own pace in the context of an experience designed to be successful, fun and self-confidence building.

As the course of my life's work changed and brought me to Chestnut Ridge in 2005, I left behind the successful Cubs program in the hands of many capable instructors. While that chapter of my working life came to a close, my connection to the organization has remained strong. This year, as TSMMA celebrates its 35th year as the east coast's premier martials training organization, they have chosen the Otto Specht School as the charity they are supporting. Both organizations bring to the world a way of working that is not based on material gains, but rather strengthening the human capacities that are both unique to each individual, and universal to all. The OSS is honored to be the recipient of such a generous gesture and looks forward to continuing this partnership into the future.

Tiger Schulmann’s is asking for contributions of $15 to raise funds for the Otto Specht School. As a thank you, donors will receive a commemorative 35th Anniversary TSMA T-Shirt featuring our newly updated logo. Donate today and get your T-Shirt at: https://tsk.com/product/otto-t-shirt/

Farm and Garden Update: A New Friend Next Stall

After a lovely mild and bountiful summer the medicinal garden continues to grow medicinal herbs and flowers, which will be transformed into various products in the weeks to come.  Year to date the students have harvested marigolds, applemint, spearmint, lemon balm, stinging nettle, and chamomile for medicinal teas and healing balms - coreopsis and cosmos for dyes.  Lovage, oregano, thyme, sage, rosemary, chives and nasturtiums have been harvested for culinary herbs and teas. The medicinal garden also produced colorful flowers, which have decorated the H&H, have been used by FC members to celebrate birthdays and honour some who have passed.  Currently, the garden has been getting put to sleep by the students as they learn the importance of cover crop and its use as erosion prevention and springtime soil fertility improvement.  They have been busy spreading compost and planting oats, peas and daikon radishes.  

Meadow Wood greenhouse has been slowly filling with seedlings that will soon fill our greenhouses at the farm, which will grow produce throughout the winter and into next spring, helping supply the FC kitchen as well as being sold to the Threefold Cafe. Spinach, lettuce, and beets have been seeded in trays for transplants.  Beds are being prepared by 5th, 7th, 8th graders and high schoolers for baby leaf Arugula, Red Russian Kale, Chard, and Mustard greens.

In more exciting farm news, in late September, OSS welcomed Breeze to the farm! She has quickly become friends at the hip with Otis and they are happily enjoying the last warm rays of sun together before winter. After school lessons have begun and all of the available slots filled up very quickly with eager riders from Otto Specht and the Threefold Community. Otto Specht will offer lessons until the ground is too frozen, then we will take a winter break, and resume in the spring. Currently, students are riding on Wednesdays and Fridays. If you would like to know more about riding lessons or be placed on our waiting list, please email me at: jromerobosch@ottospecht.org.

A New Endeavor

Sunflowers don’t grow in the deep shaded forest; they grow where conditions meet their needs, where they can become, with all the potential that once was locked inside the hard shell of a seed. We do not expect of the sunflower that it will thrive in the same environment as a fern or primrose. This fundamental truth of the natural world, also alive in the multitude of differences found within humanity, demands that we move away from standardization and create opportunities for each individual to become, with all the potential of his or her own unique being. 

It is with this premise and a deep understanding of human development, that Otto Specht School continues to reach beyond the conventional classroom, offering diverse, individualized educational opportunities. Year after year at Otto Specht School, students who, for a variety of reasons, were previously unsuccessful by most schools’ measures, would begin to thrive. They would learn to learn, begin to interact and relate more to others, and become more actively engaged in and out of the classroom.

The future paths of our students are as varied as the students are and we work to help achieve the most complete fulfillment of each of our students’ passions, interests, and dreams. For some this means college, for others it may mean an art, vocation, or trade. At the same time, we recognize that for some of our families, and many others throughout our state, country, and around the world, their children may continue to need support in manifesting their best future long past high school. 

What any parent wants for their special needs child is not that different from what every parent wants for any of their children - to belong, to have meaningful work, to feel good about themselves and be happy. And, of course, they want to know that when they are no longer around, their child will have the love and support to continue to live a productive and meaningful life.

When Otto Specht School founder and director, Jeanette Rodriguez sees a need amongst the families of Otto Specht School, she cannot help but begin to consider how to meet that need. It was clear, in this instance, that the same community setting that made the success of the school possible, also could begin to answer the need of so many families in Otto Specht and beyond; families whose children have aged out of school and fallen off the so-called “cliff,” no longer eligible for services, but not ready for independent living or a typical college setting.

Within the Threefold and Fellowship Communities, Jeanette and some staff members and parents began crafting programming for young adults, offering vocational, educational, and support services for adults with special needs in an integrated community. The program grew out of Otto Specht School, and out of the environment that the community provides, in which the young adult participants can find and manifest their potential. This young adult programming had a “soft launch” during the summer, with a few young adults participating in a variety of work activities within the Fellowship Community and taking part in music and art classes. We are excited for the growth of the program as we add hours and participants in the fall. All classes are available to people of all abilities, and participants work alongside diverse groups of people in their daily activities. Participants develop vocational and life skills while engaging in real work that helps the community.

"Interdependence Community" is an evolving term for the Developmentally Disabled community, and is key to what the Sweeneys and many others are looking for for their adult children with special needs. “For us, the definition of Interdependence includes the full participation in community life for BOTH of our sons: Naval Flight Officer - Dylan Sweeney, and Aspiring Farmer and Chef - Dustin Sweeney. The goal is to create a life with “purpose”, and this community is the ideal place for Dustin to achieve his goals in a safe and supportive environment.”

 - Mike Sweeney, 21+ parent and Otto Specht School Advisory Board member.

With many acres of farmland, forest, and gardens comprising much of the community campus, we know for a fact that not all plants are sunflowers, but the sunflowers we do grow, we grow in the gardens and open fields where they can become, with all the potential that once was locked in the hard shell of their seeds.

For more information, email Chela Crane at: ccrane@ottospecht.org

100 Years of Waldorf Education: Moving Towards the Future

This year marks 100 years of Waldorf Education. Worldwide, Waldorf Schools and related institutions are being asked to come together in celebration of the first 100 years and to look towards the next 100 years of Waldorf Education and beyond. Core projects have been chosen that celebrate the global reach of Waldorf Education, unite students and schools locally and globally, address environmental sustainability, and bring social renewal. 

On September 21st, as part of the “Marathon Around the World” sport project of Waldorf 100, Otto Specht School will be hosting a 5K run. The theme of the run is “Sport Inspires and Unites.” Other regional Waldorf Schools that have signed on as participating schools include Green Meadow Waldorf School, Rudolf Steiner School NYC, Waldorf School of Garden City, and Brooklyn Waldorf School. The race course encompasses the unique community campus our school is set in. The scenic route winds through the farms, forests, and fields of the Threefold and Fellowship Communities, and highlights the many affiliated organizations and businesses the community holds, including Green Meadow Waldorf School, Sunbridge Institute, Eurythmy Spring Valley, and many more. Our small community hosts more anthroposophical initiatives per acre than anywhere else in the world, and there is no better time to show this to the world than in this momentous celebration.

Looking towards the future and working to bring people together is nothing new to Otto Specht. From the start, the growth and development of Otto Specht School and now the new Endeavor 21+ program, have been determined by the needs coming towards us. And working together with others in our community has been vital to our success in helping each individual find his or her path to learning, meaningful work, personal development, and to living as independently as possible. 

We are very excited to host this run and to celebrate the incredible wisdom that is Waldorf Education. We hope you will join us!

The run is open to all, including all abilities.*

To learn more or to register, go to: http://bit.ly/W1005K 

*If accommodations or a modified (shortened) race course are needed for you or someone you are registering, please email Chela Crane at: ccrane@ottospecht.org

More Than Cookies

Some of the students in the Garden House High School program are approaching graduation from High School and  are ready to transition into programs that will prepare them for adult life, with more focus on independent living and job skills. Whether it is cooking a simple meal, account balancing, gaining and maintaining employment, house-keeping, or fixing a button in a shirt, this slow progression to independence starts with caring guidance toward the repeated experience of accomplishing tasks, and getting to trust one’s own abilities. 

One of our classes towards this end is Culinary Arts. We found that one major challenge was making the experience in the kitchen meaningful while meeting different dietary restrictions. As we tried various approaches, we found that, while the students worked hard and learned the skills, they showed very little connection to the food we were making. After exploring many options, we turned to baking, and to the development of our business, Garden House Creations. 

We bake on Thursday and Deliver on Friday, that is our motto. While we accommodate many dietary restrictions, making gluten free, nut free, and vegan options, having the business aspect helped draw all students into the excitement of the project, even for those who still cannot eat all of the items created. There is something in baked goods fresh out of the oven that binds us together, and students and staff alike are often willing to sample the goods. Through our recipe development we learned how to think critically about what we eat. ‘I like’ or ‘good’ is not enough when we are working to improve our products. 

On Wednesdays, we gather for our weekly business meeting, where we discuss marketing and advertising, covering things like merchandising, logos, flyers, and promotions. The students are starting to awaken to their environment and to the wants and needs of their customers. Among other things, the students wrote a jingle and performed it at the Friday assembly, hoping to leave everyone thinking about cookies. “Garden House Cookies, taste so good and fresh; Garden House Cookies, better than all the rest!” Following the meeting, the students move into math class, where they work through their budget. Do you want to be in the ‘red’ zone or in the ‘green’ zone? What does that mean? How do we calculate our budget? How much do we need to make to move to the green zone? 

 Garden House Creations will continue to grow and develop, responding to the needs of our students and of our community, and the student’s work will translate into skills they will carry into adulthood. This is only the beginning of an experience that has provided us with so much more than freshly baked cookies.

Voices of Us

In the nearly 10 years that I have worked at Otto Specht School, I have grown quite accustomed to speaking and writing about the unique approach of the Otto Specht School,  the benefits of Waldorf Education, and the incredible unfolding we see in our students year after year. It is easy enough to intellectualize my experiences, validating our programming and various modalities with research articles on the benefits of being outdoors, the importance of movement in human development and learning, the positive outcomes from adding music and art to school curriculums, and more. It is also easy to get swept up in sharing anecdotes - telling and retelling those gratifying moments when the seeds you have sewn with your students suddenly burst forth and that student’s entire countenance beams in his or her knowing. I speak to parents, to organizations, to other schools, to educators, and to perfect strangers. I tell the stories of Otto Specht School, but they are really my stories, through my lens. So this time I decided to get to the heart of the matter, each child’s experience.

I asked a few general questions and allowed students to respond in whatever way they could or desired to, whether orally or in writing, typed on an ipad, or with the assistance of an aid or therapist. As I listened and read, various clear themes arose, but the thread that connected all of these experiences was the feeling that the students are happy. Otto Specht School students genuinely enjoy school and appreciate the various opportunities they are given here. Here were the basic questions, which sometimes led to further discussions or questions expanding upon the first answers:

• How would you describe Otto Specht School?

• What would be two words that described Otto Specht School?

• What is your favorite thing about Otto Specht School?

Emerging themes included a sincere appreciation for the farm (a big shoutout to Otis and the cows!) and all outdoor activities, for the teachers, for PATIENCE, and for our coming together on Friday mornings for assembly.

Below is a sampling of answers, as told or written:

How would you describe Otto Specht School?

“Otto Specht School is not just devoted to opening to the child’s perspectives but also to connecting with them.” - High School

“It is Waldorf.”  - High School

If you could describe Otto Specht in two words, what would they be?

“Patient.” “Outdoorsy.” - Grade 6

“Fun and awesome!” - Grade 4

“Fun and learning.” - Grade 4

“Hands On.” - Grade 4

What do you love about Otto Specht School?

”My favorite activity is going for a walk. I like walking in the garden.” - High School

“My favorite class at school is Farm because I like the cows.” - Grade 3

“I like math class here.” Why? “Because I like math. They make it easier than anywhere else.” How? “PATIENCE” - Grade 6

“There are many good things at our school.

I like the farm fair because of the animals.

I have friends at school.

I like to hang out with them.

I like to do watercolor painting. I feel good about school.” - High School

“Song writing, farming, and being able to be outside.” - High School

“We get to sled. We get to play with the animals.”  - Grade 4

“We get to play with Otis, the horse.” - Grade 4

“We learn a lot.” - Grade 4

“Teachers are nice!” - Grade 4

“Games, Main Lesson, German, Reading.” - Grade 4

“Lots of recess.” - Grade 4

“Greenhouse and sand pit.” - Grade 3

“I like going to the farm. I like the animals. I like going into the toolshed and seeing all the tools and choosing the tools. I like going to the pond at the end of the year - and the sugaring off party!” Grade 6

“Assemblies!” - Many (all ages)

Tell me about assemblies:

“More fun than worksheets!” - Grade 4

“Singing!” - Grade 3

“I like seeing how different people’s voices mix together.” - Grade 6

“It’s cool.” - Grade 5

At the end of the day, a high school student who has been with us since first grade said,

“Two words?

Understanding.

Embracive.”

Embracive (Adjective) 1 : disposed to embrace. 2 : inclusive, comprehensive

Where the Heart Is: Charles Rose and a Design for our Future

Geometry, natural light, and a seamless interplay with the landscape, provide viewers of Charles Rose’s architecture with the aesthetic satisfaction and feeling of awe one might experience, walking through the redwoods or a desert canyon. Mr. Rose’s interest in spatiality and attention to the surrounding environment results in buildings that are never out of place, and allow the natural elements to flow through. A number of times throughout our brief interview, Mr. Rose began his sentences, saying “By the time we get to form,” highlighting the depth and integrity of the firm’s design process. By the the time the team at Charles Rose Architects begins the actual building’s design, they have immersed themselves in intensive background work, understanding the mission and the purpose of the building, and the social fabric of the institutions and individuals who will use it. They consider the whole environment, the easy exchange between interior and exterior, the contours of the land, and how people move through the space. “ I guess I get that from eurythmy!” Charles proclaims. “Eurythmy is all about how we move within a space,” he says, adding, “I was the world’s worst eurythmy student. I had to stay many extra hours for bad behaviour.” Charles views his Waldorf Education as a significant component of his architectural work and the overall worldview that helps to inform his artistic and practical choices.

The first introduction Charles had to architecture was in a high school Main Lesson Block called “History through Architecture” at the Waldorf School of Garden City, which Charles attended Kindergarten through 12th grade. The interest sparked during this class hibernated in the back of Charles’ mind for a time and was reawakened at Princeton University during an Architectural Design Studio. Mr. Rose graduated from Princeton, Summa Cum Laude, with a B.A. in Architecture, then went on to study at Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, earning a Master of Architecture, Degree with Distinction, with a concentration in Landscape Architecture. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a Certified Member of the U.S. Green Building Council, amongst other accreditations and affiliations.

When Charles Rose first came to see the Otto Specht School, invited by long-time Garden City classmate and friend, Jeanette Rodriguez, it was a casual visit to learn about the school and to literally get the lay of the land. Jeanette hoped there might be an intern or early career architect that he could recommend that Otto Specht could afford to hire to design a building to accommodate the growing needs of Otto Specht School, in terms of space.  As he toured the campus, however, he was taken by the remarkable work the school was doing. The program, he felt, was uniquely and compellingly, addressing many questions facing our society, and meeting the needs of a growing student population. “Wouldn’t it be great,” he thought, “if the school had a building that could support its mission. This was exactly the sort of project we were interested in getting behind.” Charles told Jeanette that he would be designing the building. Charles and his team spoke to teachers and administrators and worked to understand all facets of the culture and the mission of the school.

A building for Otto Specht School, he realized, should support the idea of bringing together disparate students, many of whom might often experience feeling “separate.” It should help to build, feel, and develop community, giving the school, spread throughout the expansive campus, one space, where the architecture can be an expression of the community. The goal would also be to have a net zero energy building, addressing from another angle, the needs of the future and stewardship of the environment. The building is designed with two curving wings, connected by a large, more communal, open, gathering space. For the younger students, there are smaller classrooms with quiet sensory/tutoring rooms attached; spaces that are “soft, embracing, and protective.” Classroom spaces for the older students would “connect out into the world with more transparency in the building, and outward, longer views.”

A school is not a building. The heart and soul, the character and content that make a school, are not defined or confined by the walls that surround it. But when the heart and soul of the school inform the design, and the content and character are supported by the structure, the school is made stronger and can look towards the future with hope and confidence.

Charles Rose, inspired  by the mission and importance of the Otto Specht School, has gifted the building design, and countless hours of work, to the school. He is excited by the possibilities the building can create for the future of Otto Specht School and the many students and families whose lives will be enriched by the school. Now, having this incredible gift from Charles Rose, we need the help of our entire Otto Specht School community; we need your spiritual and philanthropic support, to bring this beautiful building into reality for our many deserving students.

For more information, photos, and information about our capital campaign, go to: https://www.ottospechtschool.org/a-permanent-home

Doris Sacks: A Life Well-Loved

Lord, thank you for this loving place…

Doris Sacks moved to the Fellowship Community in the Spring of 2001, at the age of 86, when her husband was in need of care. He passed in the summer of 2002, but Doris remained in the community, where she could live an active, independent life, surrounded by people of all ages. She passed away this year, on November 26th, at the age of 104.

Doris with one of the coworkers children, at the Fellowship Community

Doris, center, with friends at the Fellowship Community

For the hands that help,

For the hearts that care,

As often as she could, Doris came to the Otto Specht School to attend Friday morning assemblies, particularly in the last several weeks of her life. One day, after the assembly, she requested that her caregiver wheel her chair over to Jeanette. “Otto Specht is such a blessing for us all” Doris told Jeanette. “To see these children surrounded by such love, and to see them smiling and happy is such a miracle to me. I want to thank you so much for bringing all this light into the lives of us older people.” Jeanette, humbled, thanked her. Doris went on to say, “These children bring the future to us, and I so look forward to seeing them every Friday. It is a time to be thankful - every Friday. I hope the school grows and never leaves the Fellowship. It is the way to the future.”

For the good we have,

For the food we share,

In 1914, on the day after Purim, and just months before the start of the First World War, Doris Sacks (then Devorah Lew) was born in Bialystok (Poland), the youngest of three sisters. Her upbringing was not easy. When Doris was 8, she immigrated to the United States with her mother and sisters. At 16, she left school to work and help support her family. Doris quickly learned accounting and ran the offices for many businesses over the years. She enjoyed making the numbers work and whenever there was a problem, Doris looked at it as a puzzle, thereby gaining joy through solving it.

Most important to Doris was to love and be loved, truly and completely, and to have children to love with all her heart. It wasn’t until Doris was already in her mid-thirties, however, that she met her future husband, Arnold Sacks. Doris was told by a Doctor that she probably could not have children, but she and Arnold defied the odds, having two children.

And for the chance to live

And die

With Grace.

Doris loved. She loved her family fully and was much loved by them and her many friends. She loved knitting and reading, and spending time with the children in the community. She loved life and loved her independence. And life loved her, and didn’t want to let her go for a very long time. “During her last days,” her friend Dorothea remembers, “ it was like she was climbing a mountain to leave this world, and then, very gently, she spread her wings, and flew away.”

Lord

Thank you for this loving place

For the hands that help

For the hearts that care

For the good we have

For the food we share

And for the chance

To live and die

With Grace.

- Doris Sacks

#Giving Tuesday OSS 2018

Otto Specht School has joined #GivingTuesday, a pioneering effort to harness the collective power of partners charities, families, businesses, and individuals. The movement is transforming how people think, talk about, and participate in the giving season. Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday have become recognized days of holiday shopping. #GivingTuesday brings attention to philanthropy, donations, and kind actions - a movement we can really get behind!

This year, we are directing gifts on this national day of giving to support programming dedicated to lifelong learning through practical and vocational activities. These programs, which include farming, culinary skills, and the print shop, have very clear benefits to our students’ education, including practical application of academic material, executive functioning, and service to the community. Further development of these programs will increase our added value to the community and provide a springboard for students and young adults as they gain the skills and confidence to move towards further educational endeavors, independent living, and gainful employment. At Otto Specht School, we know that every child’s path will be unique but that each person deserves an opportunity to live fulfilling lives and follow his or her dreams. 

 The expanded programming will benefit from the diversity of our student body, the creativity of students and teachers, and the integration of the greater community. They will provide goods and services to the community, revenue for the school, and jobs for young adults with developmental disabilities. In order to fully implement the expansion of these programs, however, we need to improve the necessary spaces and equipment, including:

·     Creating more work spaces (for culinary, book binding, and other activities)

·     Renovating kitchen space

·     Replacing outdated appliances

·     Repairing greenhouses

 These improvements are estimated at $25,000, our goal for #GIVINGTUESDAY

Donate #GT2018