Support our program with a beautiful contribution each month!

Help us reach our goal of 100% participation in our Community fund. Donate $100 for the year now!

Help us Close the Gap. Your $500 gift sustains our incredible staff, allows us to broaden our specialty programing and increases our capacity to serve the community.

Your gift of $1000 helps provide a solid foundation to our path forward. It sustains our incredible staff, allows us to broaden our specialty programing and increases our capacity to serve more students.

Become a Sponsor. Your gift of $5000 helps to remove economic barriers, creating a stronger, more diverse and enriching community for all! Your gift helps us reach our goal to give “Access To All" .

A gift of $10,000 supports the yearly cost of one child, and brings us leaps and bounds closer to reaching out fundraising goals.

Lauren Bello

Fundraisers

To ensure access to all families who wish to take part in the Wild River program.

Anchor the financial future of our program, staff, and community.

Friends of Tahoe Truckee Waldorf

Wild River is an enrichment program that serves children from TK to 8th grade seeking a Waldorf education in Truckee, CA or the greater North Lake Tahoe area. 

Wild River aligns with the World Waldorf Mission Statement:

"To awaken each student's capacity for love of learning, for independent thinking, and for heartfelt service to the world."

Honor children’s growth and development in their own time and in their own way: ​ Inspire wonder-filled creativity and lifelong curiosity. ​​ 

Offer learning opportunities for children ages 4 - 13 that prepare them to move into higher learning with confidence in not only their academic skills, but their capacity to be innovative in thought. ​

Nurture connections with nature so that children may be responsible stewards of Earth; ​​ strive to always create an atmosphere of rhythm, well-being, harmony and warmth. ​​ 

Build a strong community that encourages involvement, strengthens families and supports and promotes a balanced lifestyle.

Wild River's mission to continue to honor the wonder of childhood begins with a program that focuses on educating the whole child by igniting imagination (wilder), opening hearts (wider), and developing independent and ethical thinkers (wonder-filled).

The curriculum is Common Core aligned, developmentally appropriate, grounded in rhythm and relationship, and prioritizes peer building, ample time in nature, and place-based educational programs. Unique cornerstones of the Waldorf curriculum and Wild RIver’s program exist in specialty classes of Handwork, Music, Spanish, Gardening, Eco - Literacy, and Cyber Civics. Also, ingrained in the program, is an acknowledgement of the importance of family-balance.


Our Wild River Fund will serve to anchor the program's operational needs, 

Enable the growth of specialty programs and teachers, 

Expand assistance to families who desire Waldorf education for their children.