Join the Wild Roots Network and support our mission to diversify the outdoors.

The challenges that we face in our work are consistent and recurring. Which is why we need your support to be, too. When you join our community of Monthly Donors, you provide us with support that we can count on, allowing us to focus our energy on transforming the outdoors and creating spaces for our community to recreate in.

The Benefits of Giving Monthly

  • Founding Member

    The first 100 members who join the The Wild Roots Network in 2024 and remain active for 12 months will be featured on our website as a founding member. Hey, feel free to add the coveted title to your social profiles and resume too. We would. I mean, you are helping us change the face of the outdoors. It’s no small thing.

  • Updates on Your Impact

    We want to keep you up-to-date on the impact of your investment. Become a monthly donor, and receive our newsletter, The Wild Roots Monthly with musings and reflections from our team, our guides, and our participants, about what this work means to us.

  • Be in Community

    We are deeply invested in building community. For our participants, yes. But for our donor community as well. Meet other people who are passionate about the future of the outdoors through exclusive donor events and communications.

  • Supporting Wild Diversity

    Your donation creates a predictable, flexible, funding stream so that our team can be more proactive in connecting BIPOC, Queer, and Trans communities to the outdoors, rather than dedicating innumerable hours to fundraising.

The Impact of Your Investment in 2024

  • A Recap: The Offseason (Jan–Mar)

    Your donation supported our ability to build capacity around marketing and communications to ensure a successful Application Period for our 2024 Adventure Guides. We transitioned to a more streamlined application process, and doubled our interest with over 70 applications this year!

    Your donation supported our ability to streamline our Donor Giving experience: moving from PayPal to a new platform called Funraise, in order to allow for more effective donor community building, communication, and accountability.

  • Up Next: Adventure Guide Development (Apr–Jun)

    Your donation will support the construction of a virtual classroom, in-person field training, and several industry-recognized outdoor certifications for our 2024 cohort of BIPOC, Queer, and Trans Adventure Guides – the cornerstone of our mission. Field training is a robust outdoor education experience and includes track-specific training in the realms of: Paddle, Backpack, Camp, Day Trips, and BIPOC Swim.

    Your donation will support our ability to build capacity around staff and to acquire equipment for our inaugural Community Paddle Workshops for BIPOC, Trans, and Queer folks.

    Your donation will support our ability to build capacity around staff and marketing to begin hosting monthly virtual meetups for our BIPOC Conservation Network.

  • More to Come: Kids of Summer (Jul–Sep)

    We are in our 4th year teaching summer outdoor education camps to BIPOC, Queer, and Trans youth in Portland, OR. Our mission is to provide robust Youth Ecology programming for historically underserved youth in the Greater Portland Area.

    Third year launch of our BIPOC Swim Program.

  • More to Come: Year-End (Oct–Dec)

    Planning begins for our 2025 Community Workshop Series at our brick and mortar.

The Wild Roots Network: Monthly Donors

Y’all help us keep this ship afloat. And that’s no small thing.

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