Sierra Nevada Journeys

Contact Information

Jonathan Mueller

Executive Director

775.355.1688

jonathan@sierranevadajourneys.org

1301 Cordone Ave #200

Reno, NV 89502

Social Media: Website, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr account

Comment: We've had the website since inception (though the blog just started 8 months ago), facebook page for a year and a half, twitter and flickr accounts for 1 year. We use them reasonably frequently but not as much as i would like.

Organization Information

Mission: Sierra Nevada's Journeys' mission is to empower youth through positive-risk taking and experiential leadership, science, and outdoor education. We work with more than 5,000 students and teachers each year in Western Nevada and Eastern California in a range of residential, in-school, and teacher professional development programs.

Sector(s):

Service Area: Western NV, Eastern CA, Sacramento area

501c(3) Organization? Yes

Founded: 2006

Volunteering

Seeking Board Members? Yes

Volunteer Needs: We actively seek volunteer cabin leaders to stay with students for 2-4 nights at our Grizzly Creek Ranch Campus. We also work with volunteers for routine administrative work at our Reno headquarters. Finally, we offer "Communities Unleashed" programs quarterly in which community members help with a service-learning project; volunteers help us to put those events on.

Group Volunteering Available? Yes

Comment: We run retreats, team-building activities, and a variety of other programs at our 1,500 acre Grizzly Creek Ranch Campus outside Portola CA. Group volunteers can help through a 'weekend warrior' program to get trained on our programs to offer them to students.

Accepted Age Groups: Children (grades 1-8), Youth (grades 9-12), Young Professionals (22-39), Seniors (age 65+)

Comment: We work with a wide-range of volunteers in the above-described activities.

Skills-Based Opportunities? Yes

Comment: We are always on the look-out for community members who have specific skill-sets around marketing, fundraising, general community outreach, and accounting. We like to use these skills-specific volunteers to help support and drive projects that focus on the above.

Giving

Giving Needs: Operations, Programs, Capital, Endowment,

Development Plan? Yes

Comment: We have had two plans developed in the past year and are following the most recent that concentrates on an "Awareness-Engagement-Giving" model. More generally, we have a strong grant contingent but are working on developing strengthened individual giving

Wish List? Yes

Comment: The primary wish-list items we've identified have been a Bus (to be used for schools for transportation for field trips and to/from our Grizzly Creek Ranch Campus) and backpacking equipment. We have extensive capital plans for our Campus facility, portions of which will go on that Wish List.

Major Giving? Yes

Comment: This is something that we're finishing development of that includes specific giving levels, thank-you opportunities, media opportunities (as appropriate), donor follow-up and continued engagement, etc.

Special Events aimed to: Raise Funds, Create Awareness, Educate/Train,

Comment: Community service/engagement events

Volunteers Needed? Yes

Sponsorships Available? Yes