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Mission Outdoors

The Sierra Club's mission is to explore, enjoy and protect the planet. Through our four Mission Outdoors programs, we are expanding the conservation movement by providing access to outdoor experiences for more people, organizing grassroots and administrative support for the value of outdoor experiences, and building alliances and partnerships that involve diverse communities in protecting their natural heritage.

Building Bridges To The Outdoors
Building Bridges to the Outdoors works to give every child in America an outdoor experience.

>Inner City Outings
Each year, Inner City Outings takes 12,000 urban youth on safe and fun wilderness excursions.

Local Outings
Get outdoors in your community.

Military Families and Veterans Initiative
Military Families and Veterans Initiative connects military families with the healing powers of nature.

Mission Outdoors Newsletter

Sign up to receive the Mission Outdoors newsletter or check out our blog.

Archives:
November 2012 | October 2012 | September 2012 | August 2012 | July 2012 | June 2012 | May 2012 | April 2012

Mission Outdoors in Our Blogs

12.27.12
In less than 600 words, a review of an amazing 2012 for Sierra Club Mission Outdoors!
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12.27.12
In less than 600 words, a review of an amazing 2012 for Sierra Club Mission Outdoors!
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12.22.12
Assuming that the popular interpretation of the Mayan calendar is wrong and that we will live to see another year, I am preparing my New Year's resolution. I pledge to get myself and the people I love outdoors more in 2013. I still have a few days l...
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12.21.12
Today we announced the winners of the inaugural Bureau of Land Management and Sierra Club Essay and Photo Contest for Military Service Members and Families. Hopefully, you had a chance to read, watch, and look at, all of this year’s entries. Every s...
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12.19.12
This past Pearl Harbor Day, December 7, the Sierra Club hosted a Google+ Hangout with Sierra Club executive director, Michael Brune, craigslist and craigconnects founder Craig Newmark, and me, as the Director of Sierra Club Mission Outdoors, to disc...
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Mission Outdoors in the News

November 2012: Time For Kids
Nolan Gould Visits the Grand Canyon

August 30, 2012: USA Today
Brooklyn Decker likes Getting Outdoors

August 30, 2012: Huffington Post
Return from Glacier National Park

August 30, 2012: People.com
Brooklyn Decker Shares her Arctic Adventure

August 27, 2012: KITV.com
Manoa Trail Getting an Extreme Makeover

August 23, 2012: Albuquerque Journal
Veterans Get Release from PTSD in the outdoors

August 22, 2012: Palm Beach Post
Program aims to draw kids into the wild while teaching them to respect nature

August 22, 201: City Weekly
Stop Ski Link Hike Saturday

August 22, 2012: Jaunted.com
Seek out the Sierra Club for 300 Volunteer and Eco-Trips Close to Home

August 22, 2012: Sports Illustrated Kids
Nolan Gould Takes on the Grand Canyon

Press Releases

° 6/26/2012 -- EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson Honored at Great Outdoors America Week Award given for connecting kids with the outdoors

° 6/26/2012 -- Representative Sarbanes Honored at Great Outdoors America Week Award given for connecting kids with the outdoors and working to protect America’s green spaces

° 6/26/2012 -- CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING: STRENGTHENING AMERICA Connecting Military Kids, Families and Veterans with the Great Outdoors

° 9/14/2012 -- America the Beautiful: While You Were at War

 

 


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