Membership Benefit: Leave No Trace partners with The Clymb

Get 70% off premium outdoor and sports gear, and earn $10 for Leave No Trace.

ALL Leave No Trace members have been invited to join The Clymb, a private member network where you can access insider pricing on the planets most sought-after outdoor brands.

Not only do you get discounts up to 70% off of outdoor and sports brands, but your first purchase earns $10 for Leave No Trace.

To kick things off, the Clymb has partnered with Patron Corporate Partner, Keen, to bring access to discounted footwear.

Take advantage of your participation in the Leave No Trace community, and check it out!

My Backyard: Creative support goes a long way.

We’re always thrilled to hear of the innovative ways our members, partners, and volunteers raise money for the Center.

Most recently, we’ve learned of a film festival hosted by Colorado State University’s Warner College of Natural Resources that will benefit the Center. The films will feature various adventure, humanitarian and sustainability themes and all proceeds from the event go to the Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics.

Additionally, we recently learned of a volunteer that created a Birthday Wish on Facebook to benefit Leave No Trace. She has set a goal to raise $370 for the Center, and from now until April 20, 2010, she will be asking her friends to donate as a birthday present.

The are innumerable ways to support the Center beyond membership. Got the creative itch to fund raise? Go for it! Your support of the Center helps fund new educational materials and initiatives, as well as scholarship and grant opportunities for communities nationwide. Thank you for your support!

Partnership Highlight: KEEN and Leave No Trace

KEEN’s Hybrid.Care steps into the International Community with Leave No Trace

For the sixth year, KEEN Footwear’s Hybrid.Care program has extended major support for Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics’ work to build community networks and state-by-state advocacy. KEEN signed on in 1995 to help build Leave No Trace’s State Advocate Program. Since, KEEN has not only supported the volunteer State Advocates but has played a primary role in Leave No Trace’s successful work to build communities of educators and activists around the country.

This year, KEEN not only extends support for community networks but is also helping Leave No Trace develop its first international pieces to support the Center’s growing need for global education. Thank you, KEEN.

About KEEN

KEEN Inc., manufacturer of hybrid footwear, socks and bags, is an outdoor brand that delivers innovative hybrid products, enabling all outdoor enthusiasts to live an active lifestyle. Founded in 2003, KEEN strives to demonstrate integrity and leadership, especially on social and environmental commitments, while promoting an inclusive outdoors community. Through its giving program Hybrid.Care, the company provides support to a variety of social and environmental organizations around the globe. To learn more, visit www.keenfootwear.com.

Partnership Highlight: Crazy Creek Sells Commemorative Chair Benefiting Leave No Trace

To Recline or Not To Recline? That is the Question.

Longtime adventurer, Leave No Trace friend, and Crazy Creek founder Rob Hart died in February in a skiing accident near his home in Montana. Rob was a fixture in the high mountain Himalayan climbing community and led expeditions all over the world. His inspiration for Crazy Creek Chairs, over two decades ago, was simply to provide a warm, dry and comfortable place to put his butt on (in his own words).

Hart was a staunch supporter of the Leave No Trace program and his company supported the organization since the moment Leave No Trace, the organization, was formed in 1994. To honor him and his important role within the Leave No Trace program, his colleagues at Crazy Creek created the Special Addition “Chair Man” Leave No Trace Chair. The lightweight, comfortable chairs are being sold in our store with a percentage of proceeds benefiting Leave No Trace programs. To honor the launch of this program, we are giving a 20% discount on the chair through the end of September.

We greatly miss Rob’s lively, often hysterical, wry conversation and commentary, and are honored to continue our partnership with Crazy Creek in his memory and belief of Leave No Trace.

Spadout.com!

Want to help out Leave No Trace? Here's how you can donate at no cost to you and win a free shirt! 

Spadout.com, a new Corporate Partner of Leave No Trace, is a website that monitors prices and reviews outdoor gear.  Spadout.com will donate $0.50 - 4.00 per person that writes reviews or refers friends to Spadout. All you do is donate a few minutes of your time educating our community about outdoors products, and we will donate to Leave No Trace. The first 5 people who contribute $2.50 or more and post their Spadout username on the Leave No Trace Facebook Wall will win a free Spadout.com T-Shirt.

Start contributing / full details:
http://www.spadout.com/charity.php?charity_dedpoints&charity_moreinfo

On Your Behalf

As if CLIF Bar, longtime Leave No Trace partner that is also infamous for great bars with a taste for social and environmental justice, weren’t generous enough.

Beyond their partnership of Leave No Trace and underwriting the carbon offsets for the Subaru/Leave No Trace Traveling Trainers, the CLIF Bar Family Foundation has just established a new program called “On Your Behalf”. The program benefits the Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics as well as a selection of grassroots organizations. Here’s what they say about it:

“On Your Behalf grew out of the CLIF Bar Family Foundation's mission to increase exposure and provide essential funding for grassroots groups that we know and respect. The program reflects what we've learned over the years—while our friends love it when we make contributions in their names, they love it even more when they're able to choose a project that resonates deeply with their individual concerns.

On Your Behalf is a gift card program that allows gift card recipients to choose, from a group of 23 grassroots organizations, which nonprofit group(s) they would like to support. These organizations focus on a wide array of social concerns including environmental restoration and conservation, sustainable food systems and agriculture, youth programs, and public health. These groups have won our respect year after year by expanding our understanding of what a few people with innovative ideas, a lot of spirit, and a little help can accomplish.”

Find out more about the program at: http://clifbarfamilyfoundation.org