VIDEO | City Kids Offers DC Students an Environmental Education
“A D.C. nonprofit that believes children do some of their best learning outside surrounded by nature says kids growing up in the city shouldn’t miss out on environmental education.”
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A Journey to Alaska Inspires Gratitude and Feelings of Self-Accomplishment
In an effort to share just how transformative the outdoors is for City Kids youth, we sat down with Josh, a current City Kid participant, to hear more about his recent adventure to Alaska.
City Kids Wilderness Project Annual Report 2017
Every year, City Kids provides programming and support for over 130 DC youth and young adults. In recent years, several alumni have joined our staff and are now leading City Kids program activities.
KHOL Interviews City Kids Student Daysiana Godbee
City Kids student Daysiana describes her experience coming from Washington DC and discovering the great outdoors in Wyoming.
2018 Eleanor Eells Award Winners
Each year, ACA’s Eleanor P. Eells Award for Program Excellence recognizes camps that embody the award’s namesake by developing superior programming.
City Kids Receives Award of Excellence
In the sixth episode of CampWire, meet the five winners of the Eleanor P. Eells Award for Program Excellence.
Get Out: Nurturing A Bond Between Black People and Nature
A 2011 National Park Service survey found that just 7 percent of all park system visitors were black. But there is a growing effort to nurture the relationship between African-Americans and the outdoors.
Program Connects At-Risk Kids with Nature
Thomas Jones, 17, is an inner-city kid who, statistically, had a greater chance of dropping out of high school or getting shipped off to prison than he had of summiting a 13,000-foot peak in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. Yet despite the odds, Jones found himself climbing the Grand Teton peak this summer as […]
Official Selections for the 2016 SHIFT Awards
What do a Washington DC nonprofit, a hunting and angling organization and an outdoor adventure app have in common? They, and thirty other initiatives, are all official selections for The 2016 SHIFT Awards.
GET OUT: Mountain Medicine
As I sat there with tears in my eyes I couldn’t find anything to say to my teammates, people who were now my family. We had made it so far but I was ready to retrace every grueling step back down.