To help others better understand and appreciate our natural world through interacting with the environment.
The Kate Svitek Memorial Foundation provides financial support to individuals, groups, and various institutions whose interests and goals align with our vision. The Foundation’s primary focus is to promote and help underwrite a range of activities and educational opportunities principally related to outdoor and wilderness exploration, study, observation, preservation, improvement, expansion, and enhancement related to land, water, or atmosphere.
The Kate Svitek Memorial Foundation may provide support in the form of scholarships and/or grants to:
Education and adventure through activities in the outdoors are emphasized by the foundation. Funding may be provided for guided trips to both known landmarks as well as remote and unexplored destinations. Activities may include hiking, backpacking, camping, scuba diving, water activities, as well as exploration, mountaineering, and related activities.
Support may be provided for speakers and seminars related to the outdoors, adventure, ecology, and the environment.
In 20 years, the Foundation has been able to provide:
Grants to:
100 Elk Outdoor Center Achieve Tahoe Adventure Works Baltimore Yearly Mtg - Philly Stride Boys and Girls Club of Phila. Boys Latin Brewster-Pierce Memorial School Bucks Cty Audubon Society Camp Attaway Camp Kesem Camp Kesem Camp Rainbow Camp Thunderbird Community Academy of Phila Center for Aquatic Sciences Central PA Conservancy Chicago Voyagers Chipping Hill College Settlement Des Moines Cty. Cons. Partners Dragonfly Forest Camp Exploration Academy Exploring New Horizons Outdoor Schools Fellowship Farm First Descents First Waves Franklin School of Innovation Gateway to the Great Outdoors (GGO) Get Outside Grassy Waters Green Fest Green Valleys Grow Portland Harris Center for Conservation Educ. l-Lead Charter School Johns Hopkins Outdoors Club Lacawac Laketrails Base Camp Lee G Simmons Cons. Park & Wildlife Safari Life Expanding Adventure Prog (LEAP) Linn County Conservation Living Tree Alliance Localogy-Roots and Wings School Los Angeles Waterkeeper Macrieb Consultants Monarch Academy Neighborhood Bike Works New England Sci. & Sailing Found. (NESS) New Heights Academy Charter School No Barriers NOLS North Carolina Outward Bound North Cascades Institute Northwest Outward Bound Paddle Without Pollution Pajarito Environmental Education Center Paradox Sports Parkway Northwest High School Peak 7 Adventures Phipps Conservatory Botanical Gardens Prince William Sound Science Center Project U.S.E. ReSource Riverbend Riversport Roanoke Outside Foundation Robbins Park Rocky Mountain Institute Russell Byers Charter School Saddle of Love San Diego Coast Keepers Sauvie Island Schuylkill Center Second Chance Outreach Something Good in the World Strayer Middle School Tahoe Rim Trail Assoc. The Franklin School of Innovation The Great Schools Partnership The LIFE School of Atlanta Trips for Kids - Denver/Lucky to Ride Urban Blazers Urban Green Partnership UVM Vamos Outdoors Project Venture Outdoors Volunteers at Sippican El. (VASE) West Virginia University Wissahickon Charter Wrangell Inst for Science Ed (WISE) YES - Phila. Horticultural Society |
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