Our Mission
The mission of Crown Point is to demonstrate the practical applications of ecology and to connect spirituality, social justice and environmental protection.
Our Vision
The vision of Crown Point is to be a role model for food security and sustainable land use, through farm stewardship, advocacy, education and collaboration.
Core Values
Crown Point expresses its mission through organic agriculture and environmental education programs that integrate four core values — Community, Justice, Spirituality and Sustainability.
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Crown Point Ecology Center believes the land belongs to everyone and so does access to it.
Farm spaces, ecological education, and the sustainable food movement have too often excluded the very communities who stand to benefit most. We are committed to changing that. Crown Point actively works to ensure that our programs, partnerships, staff, volunteer base, and leadership reflect the full diversity of the people we serve.
We include and affirm individuals who identify as LGBTQIA+, people across the gender spectrum, Black and Indigenous people, people of color, neurodivergent individuals, and people with disabilities.
This is not a footnote to our mission, it is our mission. Our core value of Justice calls us to confront inequity wherever it lives, including within ourselves, and to keep growing.
Land Acknowledgement
Crown Point Ecology Center sits on the ancestral lands of the Seneca, Cayuga, Lenni Lenape (Delaware), Shawnee, Wyandot (Wendat), Ottawa (Odawa), Ojibwe (Chippewa), Miami, and Potawatomi peoples.
These are nations who were stewards of this land long before European settlement. Before them, ancient earthwork-building cultures occupied and cultivated this landscape for more than two thousand years. These nations did not simply pass through this land, they sustained it.
In 1805, the Treaty of Fort Industry extinguished Indigenous title to this region, and the Indian Removal Act of 1830 completed the forced displacement of peoples who had called northeastern Ohio home for generations.
To learn more about Indigenous peoples in our region, we encourage you to visit the Portage Path Collaborative at the Summit County Historical Society website.
Transparency and Financial Accountability
Crown Point Ecology Center is committed to transparency in all that we do. We are a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (EIN: 27-2817313).
You can view our IRS Form 990 filings on our Candid profile.
A brief narrative of Crown Point’s history, mission, vision and goals for a sustainable path ahead.