Your partnership support is essential …
This past year GPI provided outdoor education, recreation, and STEM learning opportunities to over 1,000 youth and young adults from under funded rural school districts and historically marginalized urban communities throughout Snohomish county, Skagit County, King County and beyond. These hands-on interactive experiences unleash their creativity as they discover the wonder of our natural environment, build new skills, and grow in their self-confidence and resiliance to tackle life challenges and thrive.
Generous donors like you make it possible for these youth and young adults to have amazing “I did that!” moments as they bike,climb, hike, fish, raft, canoe and more. Your convenient & affordable monthly or generous 1x gift of any amount is needed to help us reach our goals for 2025.
Together let's invest in the next generation of leaders and environmental stewards!
We empower youth to build resilient and sustainable rural communities and healthy ecosystems across the Glacier Peak region of Western Washington through innovative, action-based education programs integrating Science, Technology, recreation, Engineering, art, Mathematics, and skill-building (STrEaMs).
Rural communities and historically marginalized people groups living in urban areas across our state are teeming with potential, while also facing unique and compounding challenges—from natural disasters, geographic isolation, and historical underinvestment that leads to a profound lack of resources for youth education, recreation, and career exploration opportunities. Glacier Peak Institute is an outdoor education and recreation leadership development organization that offers immersive outdoor STEM, day excursion, and workforce development job training programs that allow youth and young adults everywhere to tap their potential.
Through outdoor adventures and hands-on projects, youth develop creative thinking, problem solving, social and technical skills, and expand their environmental and local historical knowledge. By building relationships between rural and urban classrooms, GPI’s programs encourage connection and understanding, break cultural misconceptions and engage youth from across Western Washington as integral parts of their ecosystems. At GPI, we invest in the tools and experiences rural youth need to harness their full potential and directly contribute to the ecological and economic regeneration of their community.
We hope you will join us in our efforts to create access and opportunity for all youth and young aduts to experience the many physical, emotional, and social benefits of forming life-long connections to our natural environment.
What we do
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