Here at , we believe in supporting and partnering with nonprofit organizations who work to protect the planet and grow outdoor participation among youth and underrepresented communities. We believe that together with our audience of 80 million people per month, we can make a difference. Will you help us get more kids out on the slopes or the bike for the first time? Fund the fight for climate action? Bring yoga to those who need healing—and seeds to community gardens?

Join us to support seven nonprofit partners from our Find Your Good that are doing this work every day.

Give to one (or more!) of your favorites by Dec. 6—your tax-deductible donation goes directly to the nonprofit(s) you choose.

and help protect the places you love from climate change.

Ìę and kick down barriers to winter sports.

and help empower a new generation of environmental activists rooted in equity and inclusion.Ìę

and train youth to be effective leaders at the intersection of the environment and climate justice movements.

and help bring trauma-informed yoga and mindfulness practices to incarcerated people.Ìę

and help teach young people to lead, create, and grow a healthy, sustainable future through community gardening.Ìę

and help increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in cycling.Ìę

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Climbing and Eldorado Climbing Walls have teamed up to raise $20,000 for Paradox Sports, a 501(c)3 nonprofit that works tirelessly to expand adaptive climbing accessibility.

Each year, Paradox connects roughly 350 people with physical disabilities to climbing. They work with climbers with amputation or limb differences, blindness, hearing impairments, spinal cord injuries, neurological conditions, traumatic brain injuries, and post-traumatic stress disorder, among others. Paradox does this with the help of a variety of funding sources—but roughly 10% of their revenue comes from individual tax-deductible donations.

We’re hoping to raise $10,000 for Paradox Sports by October 25. By doing so we’ll unlock an additional $10,000 match from Eldorado Climbing Walls.

The first 100 people to donate more than $50 will receive a custom-made 20-ounce water bottle with art depicting Ouray ice climbing.

Where do my donations go?

• $50 covers the cost of a one-day Colorado-based skills clinic for an adaptive climber.
• $100 covers the cost of adaptive climbing equipment that we supply for our participants on national trips which can include shoes, ice picks, crampons, harnesses, helmets, and adaptive systems
• $200 covers a scholarship for a 2.5-day Yosemite Valley skills trip for an adaptive climber

About Paradox Sports

Since its founding in 2007, Paradox Sports, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, has worked tirelessly to expand accessibility in our sport. They do this by hosting for adaptive climbers and veterans’ groups, introducing hundreds of people with disabilities to the sport every year; they run designed to help adaptive climbers increase their skills in a community setting; they for gyms, guiding services, veterans-affairs facilities, and university programs around the country, sharing the latest adaptive climbing practices so these organizations can better serve their local adaptive communities; and they sponsor individual athletes through their Adaptive șÚÁÏłÔčÏÍű Fund.

About Eldorado Climbing Walls

Eldorado Climbing Walls has a commitment to quality products, to doing things and treating people the right way, and to the ongoing success of our customers. Eldorado has the widest range of climbing wall products available anywhere – modern woodies for indoors, stunning artisanal concrete for outdoors, and a bevy of do-it-yourself panels for those home climbing walls. From a few DIY panels for toddlers, to the largest man-made outdoor climbing walls on the planet, to our latest climbing creation – Kinetix Action Towers, we have a solution that we think you’ll love. The employees at Eldorado all feel pretty lucky to be doing what we’re doing, and we graciously look for ways to give back to our sport and our community. Today we are paying it forward to 1Climb, Paradox Sports, and the Boulder Climbing Community – inspiring non-profits that Eldorado is proud to be able to support. Learn more at .

About șÚÁÏłÔčÏÍű Interactive Inc.’s Find Your GoodÌę

Climbing‘s parent company, șÚÁÏłÔčÏÍű Interactive Inc., believes in supporting and partnering with nonprofit organizations dedicated to inclusivity, increasing outdoor participation, fighting climate change, and protecting our planet. We support 14 nonprofits who work to protect the planet and grow outdoor participation among youth and underrepresented groups in cycling, running, climbing, hiking, skiing, sustainability, and wellness communities. Learn more .

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On a June morning in Santa Fe, New Mexico, 26 children are jogging on the city’s paved river trail. From kindergarteners to high schoolers, some of them look more at ease than others. That’s just how jogging goes on a hot summer day, especially for beginners. Their teenage chaperones lead them to the grassy field of Alto Park, where they’re free to sit in the shade, drink water, and stretch before getting up again and playing ball games. Bagged lunches are waiting for them in coolers on picnic tables.

This is a Wings of America summer running and fitness camp, where every attendee and staff member is a member of a Native Tribe and the goal is to encourage self-care through an active lifestyle, with a particular focus on running. The camps are completely free, supported by grants and donations to Wings of America, the sole beneficiary of the nonprofit Earth Circle Foundation of Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Based in Santa Fe, “Wings” hosts dozens of running and fitness camps for Native youth each year, plus endurance and coaching clinics for teens and adults. The organization also partners with the Boston Athletic Association each year to take promising high school runners to Boston Marathon weekend, and its flagship program, the Wings National Team, selects and trains high school runners to compete at the USATF Cross Country Championships. to college running scholarships and other expansive opportunities for Native teenagers.

The Sante Fe youth summer camp is primarily funded by proceeds from the annual Big Tesuque Trail Run, held the first weekend of October on the Aspen Vista Trail in Santa Fe. Wings executive director Dustin Martin’s first week on the job coincided with the 2011 Big Tesuque Trail Run, and since 2012 he has run the race every year but one (winning six times). The Santa Fe Striders running club, which directs the event, donates 100 percent of proceeds to Wings and also asks registrants to pledge their own donations .

Martin finds more connection between the race and the camp than just funding. “This camp in particular is so significant because the water is running in the Santa Fe river just next to us. That water comes directly from the watershed that is ‘The Big T’ race,” he says, noting the Big Tesuque Trail Run’s location along Big Tesuque Creek. “For me, the race is an opportunity to pray for a good winter of moisture, and to be up there as you see the leaves turn, you can almost taste the change in the dewpoint in the air at that time of year.” He adds: “The water and its significance to our existence is just very apparent to me at that time, so during the race I think good thoughts for the mountain and all that it will provide for everyone.”

Months ahead of this year’s race, in the mountain’s watershed valley, young runners are blossoming. “First and foremost, we hope that they have a lot of fun moving,” says Martin, looking on as some campers and counselors start running back and forth in a game that looks like tag. “We encourage them to move by having staff members that they can look up to and can see themselves in, and that play just as vigorously as any camper is expected to,” he adds.

After the campers eat lunch, it’s time for a presentation from one of the counselors—Wings prefers to call them “facilitators,” and Martin takes pride in how the organization selects and trains them. Facilitators are trusted to mentor the youth at more than 20 different camps throughout the summer, and Martin says they’ve all “proven that they really love and can share running in a healing way.”

The post-lunch presentations at these camps cover topics in Native American history, teaching campers about everything from messenger runners in the pre-colonial era to modern luminaries like Olympic gold medal winner Billy Mills— “to let them know that they come from a tradition of strength and a very strong lineage of runners, and they should be proud of that,” says Martin. Other presentations focus on wellness and nutrition, “to remind them that movement was crucial in the ways we gained our sustenance and harvested our crops prior to refrigeration and all these other [modern] tools.”

“Hopefully what they’re teaching will stick with these kids for many years to come,” says Nancy Davis Roybal, director of Native American Student Services at Santa Fe Public Schools. SFPS has a month-long slate of summer programming for Native students, which the Wings camps get folded into rather seamlessly. In other parts of New Mexico, Wings has to get creative when it comes to recruiting campers and getting the word out about its programs—not so in Santa Fe.

“It’s beautiful, isn’t it?” Roybal says as she watches the campers on the grass at Alto Park. “It just brings a smile to my face because the kids are having fun and they’re learning. It’s an outdoor classroom all along the river.”

Far upstream, this year’s 37th Annual Big Tesuque Trail Run will be held on Saturday, October 7. The challenging route climbs six miles and 2000 feet to the summit of Tesuque Peak in the Santa Fe National Forest and then returns to the start, for a round-trip total of 12 miles.

The top competitors finish in about one and a half hours, but the race is as much about taking part as it is about winning. “We’ve designed the race with an early start and a main start, to welcome runners of all abilities,” says race director Don Brown. “We’re just as excited to see people finish who didn’t think they could, as much as we are excited to see the fast men and women at the front of the field competing for top honors.”

Starting as a small, local event, the field has grown to more than 200 from all over the region. “We’d like to continue to grow the race to our permitted limit of 250, while trying to keep the old-school charm of the race – trail running for the love of running,” Brown says.

And the Santa Fe Striders plan to continue their successful association with the Wings of America youth program, connecting with those who lived here before them, and building bridges between “people who love a good challenge and the peace you feel when running in the mountains,” Brown says. “We are truly blessed to have this race, this mountain, and this beautiful setting as the aspens turn to gold.”

You can sign up for the October 7 Big T race , and to the Wings of America programs (whether or not you run the race).

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Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver. —

Hiking & Camping

takes inner city kids on transformative outdoor adventures. A $25 donation will provide essential medical and safety supplies for one youth trip.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

works to make the sport of cycling more diverse, equitable, and inclusiveÌę 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

trains and empowers youth across the globe to be leaders and take action for the environment and social justice.

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

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.

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

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.

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.ÌęÌę

is how șÚÁÏłÔčÏÍű supports nonprofit organizations who work to protect the planet and grow outdoor participation among youth and underrepresented communities.

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To celebrate Women’s History Month, we’re teaming up with 261 Fearless, our nonprofit partner that empowers women through running. With running clubs in 13 countries on five continents, 261 Fearless has group runs for women of all ages, skill levels, and backgrounds.

Show your support and become part of the global community of women runners by getting out there yourself. Find a women-led run near you!

Connecticut

261 Club Connecticut

Meeting Location: Broad Street Green, Wethersfield, CT 06109

• March 4, 2023 – Saturday @ 9am
• March 11, 2023 – Saturday @ 9am
• March 14, 2023 – TuesdayÌę @ 6pm
• March 21, 2023 – TuesdayÌę @ 6pm
• March 28, 2023 – Tuesday @ 6pm

Virginia

261 Club DC Metro / Lorton

Meeting Location: Newington Heights Park, 8590 Heller Road, Lorton, VA 22079

• March 5, 2023 – Sunday @ 8am
• March 12, 2023 – Sunday @ 8am
• March 19, 2023 – Sunday @ 8am
• March 26, 2023 – Sunday @ 8am

261 Club DC Metro / RestonÌę

Meeting Location: Browns Chapel Road, Reston, VA 20194

• March 5, 2023 – Sunday @ 4pm
• March 12, 2023 – Sunday @ 4pm
• March 19, 2023 – Sunday @ 4pm
• March 26, 2023 – Sunday @ 4pm

261 Club DC Metro / Arlington

Meeting Location: Iwo Jima Memorial, Arlington, VA 22209

• March 5, 2023 – Sunday @ 10am
• March 12, 2023 – Sunday @ 10am
• March 19, 2023 – Sunday @ 10am
• March 26, 2023 – Sunday @ 10am

California

261 Club LA / Pasadena

Meeting Location: Rose Bowl Stadium, 1001 Rose Bowl Dr, Pasadena, CA 91103

• March 7, 2023 – TuesdayÌę @ 2pm
• March 14, 2023 – TuesdayÌę @ 2pm
• March 21, 2023 – TuesdayÌę @ 2pm
• March 28, 2023 – Tuesday @ 2pm

Massachusetts

261 Club New England / Boston

Meeting Location: Flour Bakery, 209 Cambridge Street in Beacon Hill/West End

• March 4, 2023 – Saturday @ 8am
• March 11, 2023 – Saturday @ 8am
• March 18, 2023 – Saturday @ 8am
• March 25, 2023 – Saturday @ 8am

261 Club New England / Revere

Meeting Location: SBA/Whelan parking lot, 107 Newhall Street, Revere MA 02151

• March 5, 2023 – Sunday @ 8:30am
• March 12, 2023 – Sunday @ 8:30am
• March 19, 2023 – Sunday @ 8:30am
• March 26, 2023 – Sunday @ 8:30am

Rhode Island

261 Club Providence, RI

Meeting Location: L’Artisan Cafe & Bakery, 9 Wayland Sq, Providence, RI

• March 4, 2023 – Saturday @ 8:30am
• March 11, 2023 – Saturday @ 8:30am
• March 18, 2023 – Saturday @ 8:30am
• March 25, 2023 – Saturday @ 8:30am

New York

261 Club GNY / Rochester

Meeting Location: Pittsford Community Center, 35 Lincoln Ave, Pittsford, NY 14534

• Sunday, March 12, 8am
• Wednesday, March 15, 6pm
• Wednesday, March 22, 6pm
• Wednesday, March 29, 6pm

261 Club Greater New York / Manhattan

Meeting Location: Columbus Circle at the Green Columbus Circle Information Kiosk

• March 22, 2023 – Wednesday @ 6pm

Canada

261 Club Toronto

Meeting Location: Ramsden Park

• March 1, 2023 – Wednesday @ 6pm
• March 8, 2023 – Wednesday @ 6pm
• March 15, 2023 – Wednesday @ 6pm
• March 22, 2023 – Wednesday @ 6pm
• March 29, 2023 – Wednesday @ 6pm

About 261 Fearless

Kathrine Switzer made history in 1967, facing down an attack mid-race to become the first woman to complete the Boston Marathon. Since then, she’s dedicated her life to the sport and making it more accessible to women, including co-founding 261 Fearless with CEO and President Edith Zuschmann.

You can help support this nonprofit’s work to grow safe, supportive running communities for women around the world with a tax-deductible donation through Find Your Good, our nonprofit hub.

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As a junior in high school, LaKyla Yazzie, of the Diné tribe, had rarely been outside of her small hometown of Kirtland, New Mexico. Apart from traveling to a couple of championship cross country races, her world was largely confined to the Four Corners region of the southwest. So getting an expense-paid trip to visit universities in Boston and watch the marathon was a big deal.

“That was my first experience of the real world,” Yazzie, now a senior at UNLV, says about her 2018 Boston trip. “When we got to Boston, it was a huge culture shock—I had never seen so many nationalities at one time.” Yazzie recalls marveling at how crowded the city was, how most people didn’t own a car, the price of a small apartment, the lack of quiet, and that you couldn’t see the stars at night. Staying in a dorm she observed how independent college students were, and, while it was hard to believe that she was only a year away from that situation, she decided the adult world was not all that scary. “That was the biggest takeaway,” she says. “Stepping out of my comfort zone—it taught me how to do that and not be afraid.

But the trip was more than an urban cultural immersion, it also helped convince her that she could make it at college. A Harvard seminar about the application process, costs, and available funding—information she hadn’t received from her small-school guidance counselor—allayed fears of being unable to pay for it. “I didn’t want to go to college and be in debt,” Yazzie says. “Before the trip, I thought, ‘If I can’t get scholarships, I’m not going to college.’ Once I’d seen that there were scholarships available, I felt like, ‘OK, I can do this.’”

This year, , a non-profit that works to build healthy Native communities using youth running initiatives, will again select five American Indian high school juniors to join the Boston Marathon Pursuit program. Wings has been granted two Boston Marathon charity bibs to raise funds to pay for all travel, lodging, and meals during the four-day itinerary. Students will take part in college and museum visits, workshops on the realities of continuing their education, group runs, participate in the Boston Athletic Association 5K on Saturday, and view the marathon on Patriot’s Day Monday.

While the program revolves around one of the world’s most competitive running events, the students don’t need to be fast to participate—just passionate about running. The application process asks the students to describe their relationship with the sport: “Briefly explain the role running has played in your life thus far and how you envision the activity being a part of your practice as you grow older.” Equally important, they need to tell why they want to attend college, the challenges they’ll face, and how the Pursuit program might help them overcome those hurdles. And, finally, they’re asked to research and write an essay on in Boston history and why this runner inspires them.

It was the Native legacy at Boston that inspired the Pursuit program in the beginning. In 2016, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Narragansett runner Ellison “Tarzan” Brown’s first Boston victory (he won in 1936 and 1939), the B.A.A. and Harvard University invited the 1964 10,000m Olympic gold medalist Billy Mills (Oglala Lakota) to speak about his own path on the way to distance running legend. As part of the celebration of Tarzan’s wins, Wings was asked to bring representatives of the newest generation of Native distance running champions. The “Pursuit” program aims to continue the conversations, learning opportunities, and inspiration of that 2016 celebration. After bringing groups to Boston in 2017-2019, the Pursuit Program was canceled in 2020 and 2021 due to COVID-19.

This year, two Native marathoners will be raising funds to support the student’s travel, as well as serving as the chaperones for the trip: Courtney Lewis (Hopi and Fort Mojave) from Phoenix, Arizona, and Casey Long (DinĂ©) from Gallup, New Mexico. Both runners have experienced the power of Wings programs personally. While in high school, Lewis ran on Wings teams at several USATF National Cross-County Championships, Long was a participant in a Wings summer running and fitness camp, and both have since served as facilitators at camps in their tribal communities.

Both runners are excited about the chance to give youth a wider perspective. “All of the things Wings does, they’re an eye opener,” Lewis says. “You never know what is out there unless you go explore. There’s a stigma that kids never leave home on the res— There’s nothing out there, it’s such a different world. And it is. But through Wings, they’re able to see all these different programs that are Native-led, to meet people and share their stories. It’s empowering, that you as a Native American can go out and explore and do all these amazing things. It’s a life-changing experience.”

Long says, “To be given the opportunity to travel, at an early age, not only to a different state, but the other side of the country, is very unique.”

This will be both runners’ first Boston, and they’re training hard to handle the hills. Lewis, in fact, has yet to run a marathon, but she has the creds to handle the distance, having gone straight from being a standout at Arizona State to running trail ultras. Long has run six other marathons, including Shiprock, Duke City, and New York City.

The students won’t get to run the marathon, but will likely have some other memorable runs. During the last Pursuit trip, they visited the newly restored tribal homeland and reservation of the, and ran together from their history and culture museum to tribal headquarters.

“It was very emotional and powerful, tribes from the southwest coming to the east coast,” says Daan Haven, Wings program director who was a Pursuit runner/chaperone that year. “It was nice to make connections, to talk about how lucky we are to still come together as a community and be thankful for how running connects us. It’s important to learn that running isn’t just about competition but about connecting with others and running for your community and who you are.”

Haven is thrilled to be part of the program again this year, helping a new group of young people have these types of rich experiences. “It’s getting that perspective of a bigger world. It’s making lifelong friends,” she says.

“You never know,” says Lewis, “which one of these kids will be inspired by the trip, and want to be their better selves so they can bring these things back on the reservation and be proud of who they are.”

You can help create this opportunity for five young Native students this year by sponsoring Courtney Lewis or Casey Long at .

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Last spring, our parent company, șÚÁÏłÔčÏÍű, Inc., launched and partnered with 14 nonprofit organizations that share our mission to get everyone outside in support of a healthy planet. We’re hoping to raise $2,500 by December 7th for three of our partners in the hiking, inclusion, and sustainability spaces, each working to get more folks outside and to make our natural world a healthier, happier place. We need your help!

Outdoorist Oath

Helping people take action for planet, inclusion, and adventure

The goal: $2,500. If we hit it, the Oath will launch Phase 2 of its educational program in 2023, which covers topics such low waste camping, stolen land history, and combating homophobia in the outdoors.

Big City Mountaineers

Providing transformative outdoor experiences that strengthen life skills and build community for youth from disinvested communities

The goal: If we reach $2,500, will be able to take 20 kids out on their first-ever dayhike. Bonus: Smartwool will match what we can raise up to $2,500. So your donation gets automatically doubled!

Earth Guardians

Training and empowering youth to be effective leaders at the intersection of the environmental and climate justice movements

The goal: $2,500. This amount will allow to bring together 10 youth for a 5-day leadership training. The training includes a visit to a current field project where the students will assess what’s working there, followed by coaching on how they can lead, supervise, and organize actions within their own communities.

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