<div style="padding:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.5"><h4>ABOUT BACKCOUNTRY WOMEN</h4><h4>Backcountry Women empowers women and other marginalized genders to experience the thrill and unlimited mental and physical benefits of outdoor adventure through education, skill development, and year-round outdoor focused recreation experiences. </h4></div><div style="position:relative;line-height:1.375;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;padding-bottom:40px;box-sizing:inherit">Mission - Backcountry Women’s mission is to create opportunities for individuals to experience the physical and mental benefits of being in nature with a community of amazing people through unique, quality outdoor recreation programming and education in a safe & positive space.Vision - Backcountry Women aims to connect individuals with a diverse outdoors community and create a positive, judgement-free space where women and other marginalized genders can become empowered and confident through outdoor education, resources, skill development, shared activities and various other opportunities.Our Backcountry Women Membership Program has been going strong since February 2019, but our programming and memberships are not enough to sustain us. Backcountry Women is run solely by its Founder and relies on volunteer support to run our events. CHALLENGE #1: Backcountry Women is a small, Manitoba-based social enterprise company. We have reached a point where we require external financial support to provide further opportunities for our community. Without this support, not only do we risk burnout on a continuous basis, we also risk no longer being able to serve a community that has come to rely on our resources, motivation to get outdoors, and strong sense of connection to community, mutual support, & access to nature that has a strong impact on many lives. CHALLENGE #2: It is difficult to receive the necessary grants or funding to maintain and grow Backcountry Women. We are not seeing federal funds being allocated to support organizations like ours who are doing this social innovation work for our communities to connect people with nature for the wellbeing of individuals and communities. CHALLENGE #3: While other Canadian provinces boast well-established networks of organized, high-quality outdoor recreation, Manitoba's offerings are still developing. This puts pressure on the few existing organizations, who struggle to meet the growing demand for safe and responsible trail use. There's a clear need for investment in expanding Manitoba's outdoor recreation infrastructure and supporting the creation of new organizations to fill this gap.</div>Backcountry Women needs resources in order to meet its full potential but instead, we are struggling to keep afloat.Main Objectives & Funding Goals for This Year & Beyond!<ul><li style="box-sizing:inherit">Continue to grow and diversify our knowledgeable Volunteer Leadership Team and provide them with compensation, free professional development opportunities, or other incentives to thank them for their hard work. (Funding Goal: $12,000)</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit">Running our Gear Library that will allow our community to access a variety of gear and supplies they may not otherwise be able to use or afford, allowing them to participate in activities they may not have experienced previously. (Funding Goal: $18,000 - Part Time staff, storage / Maintenance of gear)</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit">Our programming is in high demand yet we can’t continue to meet this demand while relying on unsustainable volunteer support, therefore our goal is growing funds to gain the staffing support needed to make our small enterprise sustainable. (Funding Goal: $40,000)</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit">Make important connections with local organizations to support outdoor diversity and inclusion. We require resources for building more relationships with organizations that are led by diverse perspectives (including BIPOC communities and 2SLGBTQ+ led communities) which can include hosting special events like our Pride Hikes, providing training, and providing gear.</li></ul> We aim to create affordable, valuable, and exciting experiences for others to get outdoors and in order to keep costs accessible for participants, we are searching for financial support that will help us be sustainable long term. Our goals help break down barriers to getting outdoors, versus creating them, and we need your help to continue operating this way!  <span fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Roboto;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.25px;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline !important;box-sizing:inherit">Support Backcountry Women in Inspiring Outdoor Exploration in Manitoba. Please consider supporting our cause to raise crucial funds for Backcountry Women's continued operations and ongoing accessible programs. Thank you for your support!Learn more about us at <a href="http://backcountrywomen.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color:currentcolor;user-select:auto;box-sizing:inherit" target="_blank">backcountrywomen.com</a> and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter while visiting our website.

<div>ABOUT BACKCOUNTRY WOMENBackcountry Women empowers women and other marginalized genders to experience the thrill and unlimited mental and physical benefits of outdoor adventure through education, skill development, and year-round outdoor focused recreation experiences. </div><div>Mission - Backcountry Women’s mission is to create opportunities for individuals to experience the physical and mental benefits of being in nature with a community of amazing people through unique, quality outdoor recreation programming and education in a safe &amp; positive space.Vision - Backcountry Women aims to connect individuals with a diverse outdoors community and create a positive, judgement-free space where women and other marginalized genders can become empowered and confident through outdoor education, resources, skill development, shared activities and various other opportunities.Our Backcountry Women Membership Program has been going strong since February 2019, but our programming and memberships are not enough to sustain us. Backcountry Women is run solely by its Founder and relies on volunteer support to run our events. CHALLENGE #1: Backcountry Women is a small, Manitoba-based social enterprise company. We have reached a point where we require external financial support to provide further opportunities for our community. Without this support, not only do we risk burnout on a continuous basis, we also risk no longer being able to serve a community that has come to rely on our resources, motivation to get outdoors, and strong sense of connection to community, mutual support, &amp; access to nature that has a strong impact on many lives. CHALLENGE #2: It is difficult to receive the necessary grants or funding to maintain and grow Backcountry Women. We are not seeing federal funds being allocated to support organizations like ours who are doing this social innovation work for our communities to connect people with nature for the wellbeing of individuals and communities. CHALLENGE #3: While other Canadian provinces boast well-established networks of organized, high-quality outdoor recreation, Manitoba's offerings are still developing. This puts pressure on the few existing organizations, who struggle to meet the growing demand for safe and responsible trail use. There's a clear need for investment in expanding Manitoba's outdoor recreation infrastructure and supporting the creation of new organizations to fill this gap.</div>Backcountry Women needs resources in order to meet its full potential but instead, we are struggling to keep afloat.Main Objectives &amp; Funding Goals for This Year &amp; Beyond!<ul><li>Continue to grow and diversify our knowledgeable Volunteer Leadership Team and provide them with compensation, free professional development opportunities, or other incentives to thank them for their hard work. (Funding Goal: $12,000)</li><li>Running our Gear Library that will allow our community to access a variety of gear and supplies they may not otherwise be able to use or afford, allowing them to participate in activities they may not have experienced previously. (Funding Goal: $18,000 - Part Time staff, storage / Maintenance of gear)</li><li>Our programming is in high demand yet we can’t continue to meet this demand while relying on unsustainable volunteer support, therefore our goal is growing funds to gain the staffing support needed to make our small enterprise sustainable. (Funding Goal: $40,000)</li><li>Make important connections with local organizations to support outdoor diversity and inclusion. We require resources for building more relationships with organizations that are led by diverse perspectives (including BIPOC communities and 2SLGBTQ+ led communities) which can include hosting special events like our Pride Hikes, providing training, and providing gear.</li></ul> We aim to create affordable, valuable, and exciting experiences for others to get outdoors and in order to keep costs accessible for participants, we are searching for financial support that will help us be sustainable long term. Our goals help break down barriers to getting outdoors, versus creating them, and we need your help to continue operating this way!  Support Backcountry Women in Inspiring Outdoor Exploration in Manitoba. Please consider supporting our cause to raise crucial funds for Backcountry Women's continued operations and ongoing accessible programs. Thank you for your support!Learn more about us at <a href="http://backcountrywomen.com" target="_blank">backcountrywomen.com</a> and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter while visiting our website.

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