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🌸 Let Nature Do Its Best Work. Give Where It Grows.

Right now, Wild Rose Education is in a pivotal season of anticipation. After a year(s) of tenacious, stubborn creativity, we have a vibrant array of climate and outdoor learning initiatives ready to bloom. But we cannot cultivate them alone.

Outdoor learning is a catalyst. It helps youth and communities build resilience, improve mental well-being, and step up as confident leaders. Your generosity today grows far more than just knowledge—it grows calm, it grows confidence, and it grows an interconnected community of people who care for the planet and each other.

You aren’t just making a donation. You are providing the vital baseline nutrients that allow environmental learning to do its best work.

🌍 Reimagining Impact: Why Funding a Public Benefit Corporation Wins

You might notice we aren't a traditional 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Wild Rose Education was never built to chase corporate profit or build an empire. It was built to be a highly agile, purpose-driven Public Benefit Corporation—a legal container that allows us to focus entirely on meaningful projects that act as levers for significant change.

0% Institutional Bureaucracy: We don’t apply for bloated RFPs or waste money on corporate job announcements. Every single project comes from authentic, trusted relationships with colleagues nationwide.

Direct-to-Impact Funding: We aren’t trying to get rich; we live well within our means so we can enrich our sphere of influence.

When you give here, your money doesn’t get swallowed up by administrative overhead. It acts as immediate, boots-on-the-ground capital to fund real-world environmental learning.

🛠️ Choose Your Impact: What Your Gift Unleashes Today

We are subject to all the uncertainty of the world. From navigating a massive global hack on May 7th that took down our virtual learning platform Canvas LMS, to waiting on major federal grants—community support is our bedrock. Here is exactly what your investment empowers right now:

💵 $65 | Rebuilds Open-Access Learning: Helps us finish the emergency rebuild of our three anchor virtual courses (LNT Instructor, Citizen Science, and Beyond the Ice) after our free platform was hacked, ensuring thousands of users don't lose these vital resources.

💵 $85 | Fuels Local Roots: Expands hyper-local community workshops and interactive field resources on botany and aquatic entomology, bringing high-quality watershed and climate education directly to our neighbors right here in the Roaring Fork Valley.

💵 $150 | Mentors Youth Changemakers: Expands the Colorado Youth Climate Summit into a comprehensive, year-round program providing continuous mentorship and resources for youth climate action projects (Save the date: in Carbondale Nov 13–14!).

💵 $300+ | Brings Healing Frameworks Home: Funds the localized launch of Climate Wayfinding community retreats. After Sarah completes national facilitator training this August, this gift helps us host local programs that transition educators and citizens from "climate ache" to sustainable, burnout-free action.

📌 3 Ways to Support the Spark Right Now:

1. DONATE: Click the button to plant a seed. Choose a giving tier above or write in an amount that feels right to you.

2. SHARE: Pass this page along to your personal network. Growth multiplies when more people get involved.

3. CELEBRATE: Get outside, advocate for outdoor learning, and use the hashtags #GiveOutdoorLearning and #GiveWhereItGrows on social media.

Thank you for being part of our authentic community of relationships. Let's make it possible for outdoor learning to do its best work!