An Interview with Outdoor Outreach Field Instructor, Vincent Culliver What's your favorite outdoor activity? Snowboarding! What made you want to become an Outdoor Outreach instructor? As a past participant myself, it was kind of coming full circle for me. I first...
An Interview with Outdoor Outreach Youth Programs Coordinator, Zach Moeller What's your favorite outdoor activity? Rock climbing or backpacking, I can’t choose. What are some of the challenges facing the youth you work with at Outdoor Outreach? Many of the youth we...
An Interview with Hannah Pasek, Youth Programs Coordinator at Outdoor Outreach What's your favorite outdoor activity? Currently surfing. And up next, snowboarding! What are some of the challenges facing the youth you work with at Outdoor Outreach? A lot of the girls I...
An Interview with Sunny Chang, Youth Programs Manager at Outdoor Outreach What's your favorite outdoor activity? Surfing. Closely followed by paddle boarding, rock climbing, disc golf….it’s hard to choose! What's it like being an Outdoor Outreach instructor?...
A conversation with mentor team Steph and Fernanda At Outdoor Outreach, #mentorship is an integral part of what makes our programs successful. This #MentoringMonth, we’ll be highlighting some of the mentor relationships across our organization that inspire youth to...
A conversation with mentor team Molly and Melanie What's your favorite Outdoor Activity? Molly: Biking Melanie: Hiking In a few sentences, can you tell us what your goals were coming into the Mentorship Program? Molly: My goal was to hopefully provide some kind of...
Written by Ben McCue, Executive Director, Outdoor Outreach At Outdoor Outreach, we believe that outdoor experiences with friends and family can be transformative. In light of the current health crisis and economic recession, our work is more critical than ever before....
The outdoors are a transformative space...But it’s one that many people don't get to experience. Under-resourced communities and communities of color have always faced barriers to outdoor access, from the high cost of gear and entry fees, to a lack of green spaces in...
Program Graduate receives Outdoor Retailer Inspiration AwardOutdoor Outreach Leadership Program graduate, Tatianna Butte, has an especially inspiring story of personal resilience that she connects to her healing experiences in the outdoors.Tati was a participant with...
"No one could have predicted how the Leadership Program would change within the first week..."On March 10, 2020, 12 teens walked through our doors for Day one of our Spring Leadership Program. They would be the first group to participate in the program outside of our...