Your Daily Good Deed
This article originally appeared on Outside
Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver. --Barbara De Angelis
Hiking & Camping
Big City Mountaineers takes inner city kids on transformative outdoor adventures. A $25 donation will provide essential medical and safety supplies for one youth trip.
The Venture Out Project leads wilderness trips for the queer ad transgender community and conducts inclusion training for educators. A $25 donation will buy food for one person for a 4-day backpacking trip.
Running
261 Fearless empowers and trains women around the globe to create safe, supportive running communities. A $25 donation will fund a training kit for one community coach.
Wings of America connects Native American youth to the spiritual and cultural legacy of running through competitive and non-competitive programming. A $25 donation will provide a day of meals for one Wings Facilitator as they travel around the southwest coordinating Running & Fitness Camps for Tribal youth.
Climbing
Access Fund protects public lands, restores climbing areas impacted by use, buys threatened land, and educates climbers and land managers about responsible stewardship and risk mitigation. A $25 donation buys 6 wag bags for the climbing community.
Paradox Sports provides rock and ice climbing experiences and training for adaptive athletes and works with climbing facilities to help build local adaptive climbing programs. A $25 donation will cover a scholarship for an adaptive climber at a local skills clinic.
Cycling
Bahati Foundation provides inner-city youth access to bikes, gear, and training, along with resources and education to foster success on and off the bike. A $50 donation will provide three Student Cycling Club members with a club tee-shirt and baseball cap.
Grow Cycling works to make the sport of cycling more diverse, equitable, and inclusive by providing education, access, and opportunities to ride to underserved communities. A $50 donation will help Grow buy bike helmets sized for little girls with lots of braids and curly hair.
Sustainability
Earth Guardians trains and empowers youth across the globe to be leaders and take action for the environment and social justice.
Intersectional Environmentalist connects people to climate justice movements in their local communities through storytelling and education. A $50 donation will buy three environmental justice books to give out to our community.
Healthy Living
Jones Valley Teaching Farm offers food-based education to youth, using food, farming, and the culinary arts as a foundation for academic exploration, leadership, and pursuit of post-secondary pathways. A $25 donation will supply 5 students with growing starter kits.
Prison Yoga Project offers healing yoga programs and training to incarcerated people and correctional facility staff to address the trauma, addiction, and mental health issues that lead to and arise from incarceration. A $50 donation will provide yoga books to five individuals who have been impacted by incarceration.
Snow Sports
Protect Our Winters unites outdoor enthusiasts, athletes, scientists, and Congress members in the fight to stop climate change. A $50 donation will fund online climate advocacy training for 7 outdoor enthusiasts.
Share Winter Foundation eliminates barriers and gets underrepresented kids out on skis and snowboards by providing gear, instruction, and transportation. A $25 donation will buy a child a seat on the ski/snowboard bus.
Find Your Good is how Outside supports nonprofit organizations who work to protect the planet and grow outdoor participation among youth and underrepresented communities.
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