Nonprofits We’re Giving Back To This Giving Tuesday

Giving Tuesday is all about acts of generosity and giving to those who are in need. Every year Outdoor Prolink partners with nonprofits that we align with and we are here to highlight all of those amazing organizations. Today, in honor of Giving Tuesday, Outdoor Prolink will be matching all donations (up to $1k) at checkout to lift these nonprofits up even more.

The Conservation Alliance

The Conservation Alliance is on a mission to engage businesses to fund and partner with organizations to protect wild places for their habitat and recreation values. The organization started in 1989 by Patagonia, The North Face, REI, and Kelty who came together with the shared recognition that the business community needed to do more to support the protection of wild places. On top of the amazing grant-making priorities they’re working on, The Conservation Alliance recently announced their new event, The Conservation Alliance Summit, which is taking place this upcoming May in Winter Park, CO.

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PridePads

PridePads is a nonprofit close to the hearts of everyone at Outdoor Prolink. Mary Shackleton, wife of Outdoor Prolink’s CEO, co-founded PridePads and is currently the Vice President of the organization. Mary has always felt she needed to do something to alleviate the issues surrounding menstrual education and access to menstrual supplies in the third world. After a trip to Ghana with her daughter and PridePads co-founder Ajume Wingo, Mary was able to see first-hand how much menstrual education was needed in rural villages. Through her work with PridePads she has been able to see the light in women’s faces when they understand that menstruation is normal.

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POW (Protect Our Winters)

POW is on a mission to help passionate outdoor people protect the places and lifestyles they love from climate change. POW was founded in 2007 by professional snowboarder, Jeremy Jones. He noticed it was getting harder to count on good and plentiful snow in places where it used to be a guarantee which made him realize that something bigger was happening and action needed to be taken. Today POW gives the Outdoor State a voice and encourages anyone who recreates outdoors to use that voice to advocate on a local and federal level for climate action.

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SheJumps

SheJumps was founded in 2007 by three women (Lynsey Dyer, Vanessa Pierce, and Claire Smallwood) who recognized that encountering fear and fun in the outdoors is a powerful source of confidence and leadership for women. The organization increases the participation of women and girls in outdoor activities to foster confidence, leadership, and connection to nature and community through free and low-cost outdoor education.​ ​SheJumps believe​s​ growth is in our nature, but fear of stereotypes, failure, rejection, labels, etc—those spoken over us, spoken inside of us and what we’ve believed—limit our growth​.​

If you’d like to give back to the SheJumps Giving Tuesday campaign, you can donate here.

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Backcountry Hunters & Anglers

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers is on a mission to preserve North America’s heritage of hunting and fishing through public education and advocacy. They work to unite the outdoors community around the protection of public lands and waters though education and work on behalf of wild public lands and waters.

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Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society

Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) is dedicated to the protection of public land, freshwater, and ocean with a strong national and regional presence across the country. Working in a way that respects the sovereignty and leadership of Indigenous nations, the organization is focused on conserving nature to respond to the dual crises of accelerated biodiversity loss and climate change.

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And that’s a wrap! We hope you enjoyed learning all about the rad organizations Outdoor Prolink is giving back to this holiday season. If you’d like to learn about the other nonprofits we’ve partnered with this year, you can check out our Nonprofit Spotlight series.