Giving
Impact
Your gift makes an impact by adding to NOLS scholarships, protecting wildlands, and advancing outdoor education through research and curriculum development.
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Years protecting and teaching in wild places
How your gift makes a difference
Your support changes lives, lands, and the field of outdoor education
Annually, more than 900 students who show real potential and an inability to attend a course without financial help are awarded a collective total of almost $2 million dollars in NOLS scholarships.
Three pillars of impact
Where your gift goes
Scholarships & Access
We believe everyone has a unique and valuable perspective and that inclusion is intrinsically connected to strong leadership. Scholarships allow us to reach a wider, more diverse audience, strengthening our programs from the ground up.
Wild Lands Protection
From advocating for the protection of wild places to passing on Leave No Trace wilderness ethics to our students, your gift helps protect the wild lands where NOLS courses run, and where they don't.
Research & Curriculum
Your gift supports a wide range of research and curriculum development, from tracking metabolic output to ensure rations meet students' needs to collecting medical incident data we share to help other wilderness programs.
Testimonials
What donors and families say
"I joined a group of C5 LA Leaders on an expedition at NOLS Rocky Mountain. I went into this experience hoping to witness firsthand the NOLS model and understand how to grow our partnership. It was, in essence, a "business trip" that turned out to be so much more."
– Joseph A. Collins
"What an incredibly profound experience. I am so grateful and appreciative to all involved in making this program a reality, safe, engaging, and universally enriching, with a pure life and earth impact that my child will forever carry."
– Mary Tooker
Student stories
The real return on your investment
How to Take the Mountains Home: A Gateway Scholar Reflects on Horsepacking
When Urban Environments Go Wild: Wilderness Medicine in the Aftermath of Disaster
Be part of the impact
Your gift, multiplied
Every dollar funds scholarships, protects wild places, and advances the research that makes a NOLS course possible.
