FRIENDS OF UTAH AVALANCHE FORE CAST CENTER INC
Keeping You On Top
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Winter backcountry use in Utah is continuing to grow in popularity. It is our mission to raise avalanche awareness for all user groups to minimize the chance for an accident.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Avalanche and Mountain Weather Forecasts
Provide daily avalanche and mountain weather forecasts to 8 regions in Utah throughout the winter.
Avalanche Awareness and Education
Provide avalanche awareness and education programs throughout the state of Utah.
Where we work
External reviews

Videos
Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of website pageviews
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Related Program
Avalanche and Mountain Weather Forecasts
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Number of annual UAC contacts from website, mobile application, telephone, and emails delivered.
Total number of classes offered
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults, Children
Related Program
Avalanche Awareness and Education
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of free registrants to classes
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults, Children
Related Program
Avalanche Awareness and Education
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Know Before You Go avalanche awareness participants
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
By raising awareness about avalanche hazards, we aim to keep people on top of the greatest snow on earth.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
We support daily avalanche advisories that are free to the public. We also offer free and paid avalanche education classes to all user groups. We work with ski areas, SAR groups, UDOT, and mulriple other organizations to reach users.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We have a popular website that sees millions of unique views per season. We utilize all modes of social media as well as traditional media. We have a strong network in the outdoors community.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
We are offering more classes each year that are always filled. We get requests constantly to present to schools and community groups. Right now we are working to creating a free online video learning center for basic avalanche awareness.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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Who are the people you serve with your mission?
The Utah Avalanche Center serves people who live, work, and play in snow-covered mountains in Utah.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve
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What significant change resulted from feedback?
Based on community feedback, we have continued to deliver our trailhead awareness program.
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
We don’t have the right technology to collect and aggregate feedback efficiently, Staff find it hard to prioritize feedback collection and review due to lack of time, It is difficult to identify actionable feedback
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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FRIENDS OF UTAH AVALANCHE FORE CAST CENTER INC
Board of directorsas of 01/17/2023
Nicole Sumner
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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Equity strategies
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- We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
- We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We measure and then disaggregate job satisfaction and retention data by race, function, level, and/or team.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.