MountainMeadow.org
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Mountain Meadow Home
Description
Mountain Meadow is a progressive and diverse community dedicated to providing a supportive and safe space for all children of LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer) and other non-traditional families and their allies.
Mountain Meadow creates a safe and supportive community where children of LGBTQ families are empowered to affirm and appreciate family diversity. We aspire to incorporate these values that will challenge oppression and create on-going social change. Through the cultivation of multi-generational relationships, Mountain Meadow will enhance communication skills and cultural acceptance while providing programming specific to awareness and celebration of non-traditional families and their allies. Mountain Meadow instills our children with the confidence to be competent in the face of ignorance and intolerance.
How Mountain Meadow got started
Julie Greenberg, a feminist lesbian rabbi from Philadelphia, founded Mountain Meadow in 1981 and continued to develop and administer Mountain Meadow as a feminist summer camp for girls until 1987. After a brief organizational hiatus, Rebecca Subar and Merle Berman revived Mountain Meadow in 1991. Motivated by their inability to find organized activities mirroring their social activist and leadership values for their own children, Subar and Berman worked with other activists committed to social change in the Philadelphia community to form a Planning Collective that designed and implemented a youth-centered, non-profit Summer Program for children of all genders with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) parents. From the beginning, creating a diverse community and providing equal access to social activist and leadership programming for people of varying economic backgrounds was critical to Planning Collective members. Their vision was instituted through a sliding-scale tuition policy and a commitment to engaging in yearly fundraising campaigns. Beginning with only 15 program participants, Mountain Meadow grew steadily over the years and now serves over 100 youth each year.
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