Grants for Queer Climbers
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The Pull Focus Grant is a partnership between The American Alpine Club and Louder Than 11, presented by Mountain Hardwear with support from A-Lodge. The grant provides historically underserved community members the opportunity to intern with a premier photo/video production studio and advance their careers in this notoriously competitive space under the guidance of industry leading mentors, Jon Glassberg and Jess Glassberg. This paid internship includes local housing and a living stipend worth $16,000, as well as access to equipment and studio space in Boulder, CO, with the ultimate goal of the recipient working to create a media project of their choice.
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This grant will provide BIPOC, LGBTQ+ individuals, and people with both seen and unseen disabilities the funds to help them overcome barriers, adapt to disabilities, and reach ambitious climbing goals. The Catalyst Grant will award over $20,000 to individuals and teams who face barriers in accessing the climbing community and identify with an underrepresented group.
This grant supports all climbing disciplines including bouldering, sport climbing, trad, alpine, mountain running, ski mountaineering, peak bagging, or any other climbing endeavor.
Grants for Women Climbers
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Brown Girls Climb is a social enterprise which strives to facilitate mentorship, provide access, uplift leadership, and celebrate representation in the outdoors and climbing for its members.
BGC will award up to $1,000 to support an individual’s education in outdoor programs such as, but not limited to, Wilderness First Aid, Single Pitch Instructor, and Leave No Trace.
Grant Requirement: Must be a BGC Premium Member
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In September 2016 GRIT&ROCK announced a launch of an annual international FIRST ASCENT EXPEDITION AWARD to enable female first ascents. The award, the largest of its kind globally, funds projects of female-led expedition teams up to the amount of USD 10,000. The aims of the annually awarded prize is to promote and encourage female participation in pioneering alpine ascents. The Award is open to individuals and climbing teams with majority female participation and is meant to provide funding for those who need it most. Over the past three years, expeditions supported with the GRIT&ROCK grants have resulted a number of new ascents.
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With the untimely death of Sue Nott and her partner Karen McNeill on Mt. Foraker in 2006, The AAC partnered with Mountain Hardwear to establish the McNeill-Nott Award in their memory. This award seeks to preserve the spirit of these two talented and courageous climbers by giving grants to amateur female climbers exploring new routes or unclimbed peaks with small and lightweight teams.
Two or three grants totaling $5,000 will be awarded annually to amateur teams that best meet the criteria for pursuing an exploratory objective.
The Award focuses on projects that have strong exploratory and adventuresome mountaineering objectives. These elements are more important than the technical rating of the climbing objective.
Other Affinity Grants
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The Arc’Teryx Community Grant Program will be open to local, grassroots individuals & organizations actively working to increase access for people who have traditionally been excluded from the outdoors. To support this work Arc’teryx will provide grants of up to 5,000 AUD, CAD, GBP, or USD, dependent on your location.
The Grant Program aims to share resources with individuals and organizations that center community in their work. Ideal projects are those that listen deeply to the needs of the community they intend to serve, and work in relationship with those communities to build programs that support access to nature.
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This grant will provide BIPOC, LGBTQ+ individuals, and people with both seen and unseen disabilities the funds to help them overcome barriers, adapt to disabilities, and reach ambitious climbing goals. The Catalyst Grant will award over $20,000 to individuals and teams who face barriers in accessing the climbing community and identify with an underrepresented group.
This grant supports all climbing disciplines including bouldering, sport climbing, trad, alpine, mountain running, ski mountaineering, peak bagging, or any other climbing endeavor.
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The Pull Focus Grant is a partnership between The American Alpine Club and Louder Than 11, presented by Mountain Hardwear with support from A-Lodge. The grant provides historically underserved community members the opportunity to intern with a premier photo/video production studio and advance their careers in this notoriously competitive space under the guidance of industry leading mentors, Jon Glassberg and Jess Glassberg. This paid internship includes local housing and a living stipend worth $16,000, as well as access to equipment and studio space in Boulder, CO, with the ultimate goal of the recipient working to create a media project of their choice.
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The 2022 USA Climbing Transformation Grant Application is now open. USA Climbing Transformation Grants are made to Programs that endeavor to make the transformative power of climbing accessible and inclusive in the United States in furtherance of the mission of USA Climbing, such as through:
Programs to increase access, diversity, and inclusiveness in sport climbing, and/or
Programs to educate athletes, coaches, parents/guardians, routesetters and others, such as for:
positive coaching methods and training techniques, physical and mental health and safety, and competition rules
Applications can be submitted by any current USA Climbing member (whether an individual member or Gym member). Each application should seek a minimum of $5,000 and a maximum of $20,000.
Grants for Anyone
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The Journey of a Lifetime Award, given in partnership with BBC Radio 4, offers you the chance to make a 'journey of a lifetime' and to tell the world about it in a memorable piece of radio documentary-making.
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Nature is a powerful force. It challenges you. Grounds you. Changes you.
Share your dream outdoor adventure with us. We might just grant you access to your wildest dreams with the KOA Get Out There Grant.
It can be anything. Camping is not required.
DEADLINE: 11:59pm March 31, 2023
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Open to all amateur adventurers, the MXP (Millet Expeditions) aims to allow each and every adventurer to fulfill their dreams, whether it is purely for athletic performance, to meet local people, or to discover and study the environmental changes around us.
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Expeditions seeking support should apply by 31st January for expeditions talking place after mid-April of that current year, and by the 30th September for those expeditions taking place after mid-November the same year and before the end of the following year. These dates are strictly observed.
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The Redside Foundation Professional Development Grant is an opportunity for Idaho Guides to apply for a grant of up to $500.00 toward tuition for a professional training or skills course related to working as a guide or transitioning to a related career.
Courses include but are not limited to:
Wilderness First Responder, EMT, Wilderness Medicine, Swiftwater Rescue Training, Avalanche Training, Horsemanship Skills, Chef/Food Handling Training, Storytelling, AMGA, etc.
Applicants will be awarded based on need and the quality of their application.
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The Next Challenge Grant is an annual bursary for adventures.
It was started in 2015 and has funded over 70 different adventures. The money comes from me (Tim Moss), small crowdfunded donations and contributions from other adventurers.
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The Timmissartok Foundation will partially support projects that involve “travel with a purpose” in which a particular passion is to be explored. Travel is one of the world’s greatest teachers, and the German saying “Der weg ist das ziel” is very relevant, because the journey is more important than the destination. The foundation looks for projects which embody the philosophy of Canadian astronaut Roberta Bondar - "The greatest adventure is still the voyage of the human spirit.”
Open to: Individuals seeking adventure in foreign lands - all nationalities, all ages.
Grant Amounts: Small.
Application: Apply anytime. We read all applications. We cannot reply to every email. Recipients posted when granted.
Directors: T.Claytor, R.B.Claytor,MD, W.I.Claytor, B.K.S.Ingersoll, L.B.Norton, P.F.Cooke,Jr., S.L.Robinson, D.B.Smith, R.Parker, C.E.Leonard, M.Ramirez, N.Sato, R.J.Parfet, M.M.Sheikh, P.Brabeck-Letmathe, Khenpo Chimed Rinpoche.