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It’s Giving Season—Support What You Love

by Abby Levene November 27, 2023
written by Abby Levene

It’s the season for gratitude. And now more than ever we feel grateful for our playground called planet earth. It’s also the season for giving. And what better time to protect our playground for future years and generations than now.

At Gaia GPS, we believe in supporting and partnering with nonprofit organizations working to protect the planet and grow outdoor participation among youth and underrepresented communities. We believe that together we can make a difference.

Built on this bedrock of belief, in the spring of 2022 our parent company Outside launched Find Your Good. We partnered with 14 nonprofits that further our mission of getting everyone outside and supporting a healthy planet. 

This giving season, we hope to raise $1,500 for each of our non-profit partners—a modest goal that is attainable with your help! Please consider a tax-deductible donation of any size to one of these incredible organizations. Meet Gaia GPS’s two favorites, and consider joining us in fueling your adventures by finding your good. We need your help!

Big City Mountaineers: Providing Transformative Outdoor Experiences to Underprivileged Youth

For more than 30 years, Big City Mountaineers has acted on a core tenet: every person benefits from a personal connection to nature. Research shows that meaningful experiences in nature reduce stress, improve physical health, and lead to better education outcomes. These experiences enhance perseverance, problem-solving, critical thinking, leadership, and teamwork. BCM focuses on bringing those benefits to youth in low-income communities and communities of color that face specific systemic challenges to greater access and opportunities in the outdoors.

“By providing free, fully-outfitted, and professionally led outdoor and backcountry trips, we’re able to give students ages eight to 18 the opportunity to connect with nature and reconnect with their strengths, skills, and resilience,” says Executive Director David Taus.

Big City Mountaineers’ Work

BCM’s program includes four stages that all build to a successful experience:

  • Introducing the program to students and their families through an orientation at a partner youth agency.
  • Building skills and trust among the group in preparation for the expedition through single-day hiking opportunities, paddling lessons, or “camp life” trainings designed to facilitate self-reliance.
  • Multi-day expedition or an overnight camp. The experienced guidance of BCM’s course instructors ensures that students are engaged, supported, and given the most positive learning experience possible. 
  • Translating the breakthroughs and learning the students achieved while on the expedition to their lives back home.  

Giving Goal

If we reach $2,500, Big City Mountaineers will be able to take 20 kids out on their first-ever day hike. Additionally, Smartwool will match what we can raise up to $2,500. So your donation gets automatically doubled!

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Protect Our Winters: Helping Passionate People Protect the Places They Love to Play

Founded in 2007 by pro snowboarder Jeremy Jones, Protect Our Winters (POW) helps passionate outdoor people protect the places and lifestyles they love from climate change. A community of athletes, scientists, creatives, and business leaders work to advance non-partisan policies that protect the world today and for future generations. 

“All we have to do is look outside to see that the climate crisis is urgent and the places we go to recreate, explore, subsist and find peace and quiet are changing before our eyes,” says founder Jeremy Jones. “The science is clear that the clock is ticking and we have a short time to drastically curb our emissions to avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis.” 

ELIZA EARLE photos / POW Summit 2021, Buena Vista, CO. October 15-17, 2021

POW’s Work

POW believes in the power of the collective voice of what it calls “The Outdoor State,” the 50+ million outdoor enthusiasts in the U.S. and uses social media campaigns like #CrushItForClimate to reach advocates with education and inspiration. The organization has a proven track record of impact:

  • 33 million people reached through a nonpartisan voting campaign
  • 32 democratic and republican congress members met with POW ambassadors
  • 9,622 POW members contacted elected officials
  • 29,000+ voter intentions facilitated
  • 1.3 billion impressions for climate from 622 pieces of media coverage
  • 7,500 people attended POW virtual events

Giving Goal

With $2,500, POW can train two ambassadors on science, solutions, and messaging to prepare them to effectively lobby and advocate for bipartisan solutions that keep carbon in the ground.

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Give Back to these Organizations Supporting a More Inclusive Outdoors

by Mary Cochenour December 1, 2020
written by Mary Cochenour

If you’re an outdoor lover, the holiday season is the perfect time to give a little extra love to the organizations that are supporting a more inclusive and accessible outdoors for everyone. Since 2012, millions of people around the globe have set aside the Tuesday following Thanksgiving and the weeks leading up to the new year for spreading kindness and generosity to the communities they love most. The outdoors have given us so much this year and this month is a great time for giving back.

Everyone has something to give — that’s the whole idea behind the worldwide Giving Tuesday generosity movement. Giving back can be as simple as sending a letter to your local search and rescue organization to let them know you appreciate their hard work, volunteering to pick up trash at your local park, or joining an outdoor organization whose mission aligns with your values.

If you’re looking for a place to give this holiday season, we invite you to join us in supporting the following organizations. Each one caught our eye this year for building community and supporting education for more folks to access the outdoors. Consider gracing these nonprofits with your kindness and generosity: spend a few minutes on their websites learning about their missions, make a donation of any size, or simply follow their social media pages to show your interest and support. In the spirit of GivingTuesday, any measure of generosity or kindness counts.

Outdoor Afro

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“Outdoor Afro has become the nation’s leading, cutting edge network that celebrates and inspires Black connections and leadership in nature. We are a national not for profit organization with leadership networks around the country. With nearly 90 leaders in 30 states from around the country, we connect thousands of people to outdoor experiences, who are changing the face of conservation. So come out in nature with us, or be a partner to help us grow our work so that we can help lead the way for inclusion in outdoor recreation, nature, and conservation for all!”

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SheJumps

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“Outdoor play that transforms. SheJumps increases the participation of women and girls in outdoor activities. Partnering with nature, SheJumps creates safe, educational outdoor experiences for girls and women that nurture growth and transformation.”

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Greening Youth Foundation

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“The Greening Youth Foundation’s (GYF) mission is to engage under-represented youth and young adults while connecting them to the outdoors and careers in conservation. GYF’s cultural-based environmental education program engages children from local communities and exposes them to healthy lifestyle choices in order to create an overall healthy community.”

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Indigenous Women Outdoors

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“Our mission is to hold space for Indigenous women to come together and feel safe on the land. We want Indigenous women* to be leaders in the outdoor industry and to be confident in sharing their knowledge and connection of the land with the greater public. Through guidance and mentorship, participants can choose to start getting their own training and certifications to feel safe out on the land, as well as lead other groups and women to get outside.

*Indigenous Women Outdoors is an inclusive community. Women* refers to gender expansive community members (cis women, trans women, non-binary, gender non-conforming, gender queer community members, and any women-identified community members.”

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LatinXhikers

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Photo credit: Cherisa Hawkins


“LatinXhikers is a community dedicated to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in the outdoors through digital story-telling and community outreach. What began as an online platform in August 2017 to inspire more people of color to go outdoors has evolved into an ever-growing movement.”

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WTF Bikexplorers

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“WTF Bikexplorers was founded in the fall of 2017 when six friends were inspired to collaborate on a movement toward more connection, gender inclusivity, and racial equality within the bicycle adventure community. Our collective mission is to support, celebrate, and connect communities who identify as women, transgender, femme, and/or non-binary who use their bicycles to explore (be it the outdoors, themselves, each other, etc.)

WTF is shorthand for Womxn, Trans, Femme. By incorporating this acronym into our name, we are seeking to connect with people who self-identify with those identities or identify as non-binary. We acknowledge that letters and labels only go so far and that, above all, we seek to respect whatever words people use to describe themselves. We hope to engage in a conversation where we can learn more about our community as it relates to bikepacking and outside of cycling.”

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