DEI Connections Database

Our mission is to connect and empower women and nonbinary folx who feel comfortable in spaces that center the experiences of women. We are dedicated to breaking down barriers, like accessibility, opportunity, and cost. We host free meetups in gyms and crags around the country, and lead super low-cost climbing trips. Through fundraising, we offer scholarships, events, and course opportunities for women as well. We are hoping to add a program dedicated to giving access to climbing for young girls in inner cities.

LGBTQ+ Outdoor Equality Index

We are a community of LGBTQ+ adventurists changing the face of the outdoors for queer people through our trips, festivals and advocacy.

Peak Performance Grant

There is great potential for positive life-changing experiences, character building and self-esteem development for youth through rock climbing and other outdoor adventure activities. Involvement in physical activities, like climbing, promotes a healthy lifestyle and improves fitness in a supportive environment. These valuable benefits should be accessible to all children. Urban Peaks is focused on fulfilling this mission by providing climbing and adventure sports programming to New England-based organizations serving underrepresented youth, including schools, day camps, and mental health intervention services. Urban Peaks partners with local organizations to provide access to activities, facilities and trained staff, as well as program cost assistance.

Latino Outdoors is a community first and an organization second. We are a community that strives for an outdoors that is safe and welcoming for all people, regardless of race, creed, nationality, language, gender, sexual orientation, or ability. We are a community that celebrates diverse forms of outdoor engagement. We are a community that believes meaningful outdoor experiences make us stronger, healthier, and happier. Latino Outdoors provides for a focused conversation on the Latinx experience without being limited to it. Our community’s voices are varied while remaining united in celebrating diversity and declaring it a core tenet of Latino Outdoors.

Climbing for Change Competition Climbing Grant

Competition Climbing Grants provide assistance for BIPOC individuals to compete at championship events.

Climbing for Change Leadership Grant

C4C Leadership Grants aim to support BIPOC individuals that seek to become leaders in the industry.

501c3 non profit program that increases access to the sport of climbing for people with disabilities.

Climb Late

Climb Late is a safe and free space for individuals from marginalized communities, first time climbers, and those who do not have the means to afford admission and rentals to come together and hang out with fellow climbers free of charge. RRGCC board members will be on hand to answer any questions or offer a belay. Please join us every month!

Disabled & Outdoors

We are an online community dedicated to amplifying Disabled voices in the outdoor collective and industry. We believe that representation matters, and that for too long, Disabled individuals have been left out of the “Outdoor Enthusiast” conversation. Through our Instagram platform we highlight and amplify other individuals in our community, connect to outdoor brands looking to help with our mission, and raise awareness to accessible programs all over the world.

Summer camps for kids - day camps and overnight camps

Avid4 Adventure empowers kids to choose active and healthy lifestyles in the outdoors. We run outdoor adventure summer camps - day camps, resident camps, and expedition camping programs. We run those in 8 states - Colorado, California, Oregon, Washington, Illinois, Minnesota, Massachusetts, and Maine.

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The Queer Climbing Collective aims to improve queer diverse representation in the climbing community as well as improve accessibility as it is not equal across race, gender, sexuality, or ability status.

Disabled Hikers is building disability community and justice in the outdoors towards a vision of an outdoors culture transformed by accessibility, representation, and justice. Disabled Hikers is an entirely disability-led organization working towards building disabled leadership in the outdoors. We have established guidelines for accessible information, write trail guides, host group hikes and events, provide consultations, and elevate the multiplicity of disabled experiences in the outdoors.

Our mission is to become involved in the community by creating events for ladies (trans and cis), non-binary, two-spirit and friends, stewardship through clean ups at local and national parks, highlighting climbers on our social media platforms, and partnering with brands and organizations for events, fundraisers, raffles, and giveaways.

New River George Diversity in Guiding Grant

The New River Alliance Coalition (NRAC) is providing two $1200 grants to help BIPOC individuals become AMGA certified guides. Grant funding will cover a travel/food stipend, course and testing fees, and a small gear stipend. Applicants must reside in one of the following: PA, MD, OH, WV, VA, DC, NC, KY, TN, SC. Applicants that frequently climb at the New River Gorge preferred.

We are an outdoor company that focus on enhancing outdoor experience via products, services, and stewardships.”

Brown Girls Climb is a small Women of Color owned and operated company with the mission to promote and increase visibility of diversity in climbing by establishing a community of climbers of color, encouraging leadership opportunities for self-identified women climbers of color, and by creating inclusive opportunities to climb and explore for under represented communities. (Mission statement is currently being updated**) Our efforts and services inclue memberships, inclusive event planning, and the BGC Marketplace

UW POC Outdoors

Building community for BIPoC graduate students at UW to get together outdoors

Color the Top

Creating Community, Accessibility, and Equality for BIPOC climbers and outdoor enthusiast in the 4corners.

Our Mission To have the local climbing community introduce children from low-income families to adventures of the natural world and the lessons learned through rock climbing. Project Send It provides opportunities to build confidence, problem solve, be physically active, and interact with like-minded peers. All of these are skills that will carry over into the participants’ day-to-day lives, helping to serve the climber’s life and also their world at large.

We're a rock climbing gym in a gentrifying neighborhood with a lot of DEI access initiatives. Contact us to learn more.

Spirit of Alpinism Scholarship

A scholarship program for BIPOC communities who have a love for the mountains and are seeking to advance their technical leadership skills.

Adaptive Climber's Festival

The Adaptive Climber’s Festival (ACF) is an annual, community-focused, event that provides space for climbers with physical disabilities to come together, learn, and engage with other climbers with physical challenges from around the country. In its three year history, ACF has become the largest (and as far as we know, only) climbing festival in the world specifically created to celebrate and support climbers with disabilities. ACF seeks new crags for each festival, so that we can spread our love of accessibility and rock climbing in areas around the United States.