Blue Sky Fund

Blue Sky Fund will lead crews of 20 high school students (separate boys’ and girls’ programs) from diverse backgrounds to come together to build teamwork,confidence,leadership, and community involvement. The summer institute centers on a five day backpacking trip, during which crew members learn, through challenges, how to strengthen their leadership and teamwork skills.  The program design includes experiences that will help shape knowledgeable multicultural leaders who learn about the social needs of Richmond through service learning. After completion of the summer institute, crew members will continue to meet monthly to apply their new skills by engaging in meaningful community service together.

Outdoor Adventure Club is a program developed around the idea that enjoying the outdoors is not simply an event, but part of a lifestyle choice. Therefore, students in each club are exposed to a number of wilderness skill that they are able to put to use on a trip into the Virginia wilderness. We mostly run this program on a school club model where we will teach skills in various adventure sports such as rock climbing, skiing, snowboarding, and biking, and then the students will plan an expedition to culminate each semester. Currently operating 9 adventure clubs and reaching approximately 150 middle school students each school year.