After spending more than a year working with The Mountain Fund, TMF's founder Scott MacLennan and the other folks at TMF and I decided to embark on a new nonprofit media project. We wanted to create an online and print publication that could be the "voice of nonprofits in the outdoor industry." We envision a website that is a repository of information about nonprofits that operate within the outdoor industry. It will include news about all nonprofit activities, volunteer opportunities, grant information, and news about outdoor industry businesses that are working with nonprofit organizations. We also want to publish a glossy, color magazine four times per year that will highlight some of the best and brightest projects and organizations in the nonprofit world.
Over the past two months we put together a small sample issue of the print publication. It's called Moving Mountains: news for the conscientious outdoor lover. The first issue includes a news section and two main feature articles about The Achttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifcess Fund and Paradox Sports.
The Mountain Fund will publish the magazine and maintain the website, and the magazine/website will operate as a partner organization to The Mountain Fund. However, this magazine will represent all nonprofit organizations that operate in conjunction with the outdoor industry. It will not be The Mountain Fund's newsletter.
We are currently applying for grants and looking for sponsorships within the outdoor industry. To learn how you can support Moving Mountains or to suggest news for future issues and/or for posting on this blog, please contact Lizzy Scully at lizzy@mountainfund.org.
We plan on having a website up and running by the end of next year. We also hope to launch Issue #1 late 2008.
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