About The Outside Foundation

The Outside Foundation was founded in 2014 with a mission to get kids outside and to preserve and protect our local environment. The Foundation seeks to develop and expand programs directed at providing opportunities for children, and their families, to explore lasting connections with our local waters and ecosystem, regardless of socioeconomic barriers. With the goal of fostering the development of environmental stewardship, our focus is threefold: education, involvement, and empowerment. Our programs focus on our two most valuable community resources: our children and our local environment.

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Support our mission by joining us for our Annual Benefit on the secluded Page Islands for a Lowcountry experience like no other.

Tucked between Daufuskie Island, Savannah, and Palmetto Bluff is a 40-acre remote chain of islands, the privately owned Page Islands. Upon arriving on the islands, the common reaction is to be simply awestruck by the beauty. Nestled into the Carolina salt marsh, the destination offers our benefit attendees the opportunity to unplug from the real world and truly immerse in the beauty of nature that surrounds us. It is a perfect setting to reinforce the importance of The Outside Foundation's mission. This is not merely an invitation; it's an opportunity to impact our local environment and the souls of our children.

Guests arrive on the Page Islands either via a catered cruise or by private boats. Once on the Island, they are welcomed to an exclusive, all-inclusive oyster roast and lowcountry boil, live music, with live and silent auction items.

Leave from beautiful Harbour Town in Sea Pines on Hilton Head Island and enjoy a catered mimosa cruise with up to 140 of new and treasured friends aboard our transportation sponsor–Vagabond Cruises– the famous “The Spirit of Harbour Town.” Guests are responsible for their guest pass into Sea Pines.
Leave from majestic Palmetto Bluff in Bluffton on the luxury catamaran Ohana or dolphin tour vessels. Guests will be treated to beverages and snacks prior to boarding.
Arrive and depart on your own schedule – you may take your personal boat to the Page Islands where experienced dockhands will shuttle you and your guests to the Page Island Dock.

11:45 am -12:15 pm: Guests arrive at their designated departure location, either Harbour Town (HHI) or Palmetto Bluff (Bluffton). Guests should be at their designated departure boat 30 minutes prior to the boat departure time. We will send exact timing and locations at least one week prior to the event.

12:15 pm: Vagabond & Outside Vessels Depart for the trip over to Page Island.

1:00 pm: Page Island Benefit Begins! Guests enjoy all Page Island has to offer! Guests arriving via their own vessels are welcome to join us on Page Island beginning at 1:00 pm.

4:15pm: Vagabond & Outside Vessels Depart from Page Island to their original destination. (Guests must return on the vessels they arrived on)

Each year, we provide an opportunity for every public, private, charter, and home school 7th grade student in Beaufort County to kayak and explore the local salt marshes during a regular school day.

Our “Kids in Kayaks” program curriculum is consistent with the State of South Carolina 7th grade environmental science learning objectives and provides the students with hands-on learning about the salt marsh ecosystem. This year our "Kids in Kayaks" program is projected to have over 1,400 seventh grade participants! Your support makes it possible to “leave no child in the classroom.”

We partner with our local Boys and Girls Club for the “Learn to Paddle” program which provides over fifty kids each summer with an opportunity to learn stand-up paddle boarding and kayaking skills and safety.

Our Oyster Shell Recycling and Bed Restoration program includes 27 restaurant partners to capture oyster shells for recycling and use in building new oyster reefs. So far this year, our recycling efforts diverted over 30 tons of shell from landfills.

Partnering with the SC Department of Natural Resources, we built seven new oyster reefs in southern Beaufort County for a total of 27 reefs built in just five years! Reefs built include the May River near the “bluffs” of Palmetto Bluff and along the shoreline of the 18th fairway of the Harbour Town Golf Links. These “living shorelines” provide a habitat for numerous species and also stabilize our shorelines against erosion caused by boat wake, storms, and rising water levels, including “King Tides.”

The Outside Foundation organized and facilitated over 20 trash & litter pick-ups in our parks, waterways, and beaches, removing over 2 tons of trash this year, and 10 tons since 2014 with over 1,500 volunteer hours! We have removed 10 tons of trash from our local environment since 2014.

We host litter clean-ups, an #EARTHDAYHHI event, and the “Keep the Broad Creek Clean” water festival.

Over the past five years, we have collected 150 tons of oyster shells from local restaurants and festivals. With help from volunteers, we bag the shell to create a foundation for new “living shorelines.” The use of natural infrastructure helps combat erosion due to sea level rise, storms, and boat wake. In 2024 we planted an additonal 3,000 Spartina plants along our living shorliene, brining our total of 9,000 plants planted along our local shorelines.

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