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About
The Wildwoods Foundation is a nonprofit organization in Los Angeles, California. Wildwoods' mission statement: The Wildwoods Foundation teaches individuals to understand and apply the principles of ecology to achieve harmony in our communities. The Wildwoods Foundation provides a series of ecology-based programs to Los Angeles area schools and organizations.

Wildwoods operates as a project of the nonprofit incubator program at Community Partners, which serves as fiscal sponsor.

The Wildwoods Foundation is the 2012 recipient of the Governor's Environmental and Economic Leadership Award (GEELA) in the category of Environmental Education. The GEELA is presented by the California Environmental Protection Agency.

Programs
The Wildwoods Foundation draws inspiration for its programming from the "ecology = community" work of physicist and author Fritjof Capra, founding director of the Center for Ecoliteracy.

Full Circle
Wildwoods' primary program is Full Circle, an eight week program for elementary schools that

History
The Wildwoods Foundation was founded in the aftermath of the Columbine High School shooting by Dwain Wilson and two other National Park Service volunteer naturalists at Franklin Canyon Park's William O. Douglas Outdoor Classroom (WODOC).