As a long time board member the BSF mission is very personal for me. Your donations directly go towards serving the children of the City of Richmond. These kids needs your help, they need educaitonal support, and  they live right around the corner from all of us. Currently many of our City schools do not have the proper resources to teach science. We all deserve equal access to science education, and your donation goes toward supporting a team that teaches these kids!! BSF uses the outdoors to help our City kids learn in a hands on real life way; its worth noting that some of these kids have never seen the James River! How can we create future leaders and stewards of our environment if we dont educate?

Please consider helping us with a small donation! My wife and I are hiking 14 miles and fundraising together this year.

Below, is the traditional message from the BSF team.

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I believe that all children deserve to learn, play and grow outside, which is why on Saturday, October 22, I plan to #TakeAHikeForKids to support Blue Sky Fund, a local Richmond nonprofit that connects youth to the outdoors.

Blue Sky provides over 42,000 hours of outdoor time for 2,300 Richmond youth, 79% of whom come from under-resourced. communities and a majority of whom identify as youth of color. Through resilience building, leadership development, and outdoor science education, they work to advance equity in the outdoors by developing diverse groups of environmental stewards and leaders in our community.

You can help by choosing to #TakeAHikeForKids with me this October! Here is how…

? Register to join in person or virtually at blueskyfund.org/hikeforkids

? Donate to my personal fundraising page

? Share about the event and tag @BlueSkyFund