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The Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation provides private support to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to manage and conserve the natural and cultural resources of Texas and to provide hunting, fishing and outdoor recreation activities for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations.

The Ruth Ellis Center (REC), incorporated in 1999, is a youth social services agency with a mission “to provide short-term and long-term residential safe space and support services for runaway, homeless, and at-risk lesbian, gay, bi-attractional, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth.” As LGBTQ youth continue to be disproportionately affected by homelessness, the Ruth Ellis Center remains dedicated to ensuring that these vulnerable youth and young adults receive the services and inherent protections available to all citizens. While the Center emphasizes serving LGBTQ youth who are often ostracized, shamed, and denied services by other agencies, no youth, regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation is turned away or denied services

To preserve and manage the Appalachian Trail – ensuring that its vast natural beauty and priceless cultural heritage can be shared and enjoyed today, tomorrow, and for centuries to come.

Our mission is to support girls, women and LGBTQ+ people in accessing their power and improving their health through connections to the outdoors and community.

Our goal is to improve the health, safety and well-being of our campers and staff, by providing opportunities to build healthy relationships and increase self-esteem in a safe, stress-free environment. We seek to achieve our goal by ensuring our summer camp program stays focused on the following: 🧡 Matching each camper one-on-one with a counselor for the week, providing them with continuity and mentorship that can continue throughout the year and each summer. 🧡 Facilitating a wide-range of activities, including the Discovery curriculum, which have a focus on coping skills and promoting the positive attitude “I can.” 🧡 Creating opportunities whereby each camper can experience success. 🧡 Supporting our campers to develop skills to face their own circumstances and to make safe life choices outside of camp. 🧡 Providing campers with the experience of developing positive relationships with adults that can be transferred to their community, school and home.

Providing for Yosemite's future is our passion. Yosemite Conservancy is the only philanthropic organization dedicated exclusively to the protection and preservation of Yosemite National Park. We inspire people to support projects and programs that preserve and protect Yosemite National Park's resources and enrich the visitor experience. With the support of our donors, we have completed nearly 500 projects providing more than $90 million in support to Yosemite. We are committed to creating unique opportunities for people to connect with the park, through restoring hiking trails and iconic lookouts, providing outdoor education and volunteer programs.

To develop character, through adventure, inspired by tradition. Founded in 1935 by Otto “Cap” Endres and Helen “Mom” Endres, Camp Chippewa has long been a place for boys to learn, grow, and explore the world around them amidst the Minnesotan wilderness.

SkiDUCK is a volunteer-run nonprofit that gives financially disadvantaged, at‑risk, and minority youth free access to skiing and snowboarding. They coordinate day trips (primarily around Lake Tahoe) providing lift tickets, rentals, lessons, gear, transportation and meals so children who otherwise couldn’t afford it can experience skiing and snowboarding.

New Directions believes that people who have disabilities deserve the same opportunities in life that others expect and enjoy. Our profoundly enriching travel programs expand the self-esteem of every traveler. Whole new worlds of understanding open for both participants and the general population. Through these unique programs, people with disabilities are increasingly understood, appreciated and accepted as important and contributing members of our world. Changing the way the world views disability— one adventure at a time.

Operates for the benefit and support of world-class skiing and snowboarding, including coaching and training athletes in these sports.

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New England Disabled Sports (NEDS) is a 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit organization, providing adaptive sports instruction to students of all ages and abilities. Headquartered at Loon Mountain Ski Resort in Lincoln, NH and at the Bretton Woods Ski Resort at Omni Mount Washington Resort NEDS has become a nationally recognized program, providing expert adaptive sport instruction to adults and children living with physical and cognitive disabilities