Mountains Without Borders

Our organization aims to reduce the costs to at-risk youth outdoor programs of outdoor gear and fundraising collaborating with the international outdoor community and industry.

Our strategies are grassroots focused, developing relationships between small at-risk youth outdoor programs in the Americas and for-profit brands to receive product and monetary donations, and educating ambassadors to help fundraise for these programs. Outdoor gear is collected from institutions such as climbing gyms that have old rental gear, lost and found, and events that can benefit specific youth programs.

Our capabilities are strong communication, marketing and networking skills, coupled with years of experience in working with at-risk youth programs, and within the outdoor industry, as well as a history of strategic partnership management with a donor base, partner and sister organizations, strong regular communication with the youth programs themselves, and international volunteers that can contribute remotely to fundraise, collect gear, and develop activities.

We have collected over $20,000 in outdoor gear since 2014, and continue to receive an estimated $1,000 in gear each month in harnesses, climbing shoes, helmets, etc, that for a small youth organization factors in as the largest initial cost of for a small non-profit budget. We've developed a network of donors and partners internationally that have created a stable inflow of donations, and created the marketing structure to promote our activities and campaigns with little over-head cost. Our delivery costs for programs has been reduced, thanks to the network of volunteers helping in the transport of donations to the benefitting programs, and do to working with more local programs in the US, such as refugee and Native American organizations.