Outdoors

Challenge: Promote Social Change in the Great Outdoors

If you’ve got a great idea for promoting social change, but you don’t have the funds to implement it, you’re in luck. GOOD is giving out a $5000 grant to a project which makes for a better community, using the great outdoors to do good:

“Spending time outside can make us all happier and healthier, and many of us don’t do it nearly enough. That’s why we have $5,000 to help you use the great outdoors to do GOOD in your community. Whether you want to organize an educational trip to the tidepools, start a rock-climbing club for kids, or plant flowers in a communal garden, we want to know what you’re up to! Tell us how you’ll be doing GOOD while getting some fresh air this summer and you’ll be eligible for $5,000.”

This campaign, Do GOOD Outdoors, is open to individuals, nonprofits and groups, with submissions taken from June 15th to July 19th, after which they will go to a popular vote to decide the winner. You can find other similar opportunities at GOOD Maker.

Derek Markham

Things I dig include: simple living, natural fatherhood, attachment parenting, natural building, unassisted childbirth (homebirth), bicycles, permaculture, organic and biodynamic gardening, vegan peanut butter cookies with chocolate chips, bouldering, and the blues.