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Scholarships

We are dedicated to opening up access to outdoor educational programs, more than ⅔ of our participants receive scholarships to attend.

Every person should have the opportunity to experience outdoor adventure, develop character and compassion, and learn leadership skills that last a lifetime.

We work to address the obstacles that continue to keep traditionally excluded communities from meaningful engagement with nature. These include financial barriers like cost of programs, gear, transportation and cultural barriers like emotional safety, familiarity, culturally responsive programming and instructional staff that share identities with participants. We offer scholarships to groups, open enrollment applicants, veterans, LGBTQ+ youth, people of color, Pinnacle Scholars, and our year-long, service-oriented Youth Leaderships Corps.

Funding our scholarships 

Thank you to our generous donors and community members who change lives through their gifts. We are able to offer so many scholarships because of you. If you would like to make a donation to our programs, please click here. 

Most of these are seasonal, so to be notified when we release the dates and application, please sign up here.

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