New Families:
• Create an account in Amilia.
• Amilia accounts are most easily set up from a computer, but it is possible using a phone or tablet.
• Select programs to register for or join the waitlist.
Contact us if you have questions or difficulties using the registration system
Sliding Scale Tuition
White Ash Learning utilizes a sliding scale tuition model, a type of fee structure that accounts for variability in assets, income, and expenses as an attempt to increase accessibility for people with less financial and/or class privilege. We recognize there are social, physical, and material barriers to accessing this type of programming as well.
If neither the subsidized or scholarship rates are accessible for your family, please contact us and let us know what your needs are. We are committed to making programs accessible to anyone who is interested and are continue ongoing fundraising to increase our capacity to reach this goal.
This model allows self selection of registration cost, and is dependent on paying the actual cost of attendance if you do not experience difficulty meeting your family’s basic needs such as housing, food, and transportation.
Where do you fall on the tuition scale?
We believe that examining the intersection of privilege, wealth, and class is a lifelong process. The following questions are starting points for exploring these topics, and not a definite tool for evaluating privilege and wealth.
You might qualify to pay full tuition if some or all of these apply to you:
Own property.
Can afford to take time off or go on vacation.
Receive unearned or gifted income.
Have a retirement account or other investments.
Choose to work part time or not at all.
Make more than 75K per year.
Have no debt.
You might qualify to utilize the sliding scale if some or all of these apply to you:
Living paycheck to paycheck.
Struggle to pay minimum payments on debt.
Experience difficulty meeting basic needs like housing, food, and transportation.
Do not have savings.
Your ability to work or earn money is affected by illness, mental or physical disability.
Have to work more than 40 hours a week to make ends meet.
Read more about Sliding Scale: A Tool of Economic Justice.
Economics for a Regenerative Future
Join us in a commitment to investing in resilient economic systems that uplift the potential for exchanges that enrich all life.
Sliding Scale options are in place to support families who experience barriers to wealth accumulation. This could mean: parents with physical, emotional, or mental challenges, single parent households, families who have been significantly affected financially by illness, or families who are facing systemic barriers to equal income opportunities. We continue to evaluate our fundraising efforts, grant writing, tuition pricing, work trade and barter arrangements. Finding balance within our current economic and educational systems is an ongoing challenge (we believe all children deserve unrestricted, free access to educational spaces!).
Reciprocity
Reciprocity in economic systems fosters resilient networks of collaboration and support, where individual success bolsters collective well-being. Barter, an age-old form of exchange, involves trading goods, services, or labor directly between parties based on mutually agreed value. While we cannot entirely move away from the current financial system, we choose to utilize alternative forms of capital when possible.
The codes for 2024 offer self-serve, honesty-based discounts up to 45% off tuition, and include a number of hours (or equivalent in trade) that we’re asking families to contribute per season you attend programs (fall, spring, summer). If any aspect of the Sliding Scale is not acessible for your family, contact us to discuss alternative options and create a collaborative plan that fits your family’s circumstances. Apply one of the codes below at checkout to see the discount applied to your cart.
Once your registration has been received, we will reach out to coordinate arrangements for barter or work trade!
What have families contributed in the past?
Subsidized
Barter2 = 5% off | Reciprocity = 2 hours or equivalent
Barter3 = 10% off | Reciprocity = 3 hours or equivalent
Barter4 = 15% off | Reciprocity = 4 hours or equivalent
Barter5 = 20% off | Reciprocity = 5 hours or equivalent
Scholarship
Barter6 = 25% off | Reciprocity = 6 hours or equivalent
Barter7 = 30% off | Reciprocity = 7 hours or equivalent
Barter8 = 35% off | Reciprocity = 8 hours or equivalent
Barter9 = 40% off | Reciprocity = 9 hours or equivalent
Barter10 = 45% off | Reciprocity = 10 hours or equivalent
White Ash provides an environment where my children can express themselves in a healthy and safe way.
We love the Deer Isle summer camp, the kids love camping out and attending the program during the day. This past summer they really enjoyed bringing a pot and a bunch of ramen and cooking lunch over the fire for everyone in the program!
I really can’t even measure how meaningful Clover’s experience has been with White Ash Learning! It’s super awesome. Keep being your wonderful selves. Clover is so happy.
I have noticed beautiful expansion of Birch’s personality and self autonomy since starting this program. The container you all create for him and his peers to gather together outdoors and play and learn and support one another has brought him so much joy and built his confidence. I am so thankful for finding this program. Thank you deeply.
My sons have been enjoying the program immensely. I hope you continue to offer it!
Warren loved both weeks he did this summer with White Ash. He especially loved the Monroe location. We’ll be doing it again!!
We wanted to say a massive thank you for camp! The kids had such a wonderful time and learned a lot. They have been telling us things they learned about crows and fires, and we have observed an increased sense of confidence and independence in both kids.
Our children have experienced interactions with other children of all ages that would not have been possible for us outside of White Ash. They have learned healthy boundaries and the importance of communicating with their peers.