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David Mahoney
David Mahoney
While there is much to celebrate about exiting from a couple of years of COVID restrictions, what could be better than the return of Outward Bound California's City Skyline Challenge. Yes, if I meet my fundraising goal, I will once more be compelled to hang my rear end off the 46th floor of the Hilton San Francisco Union Square. Don't look down, don't look down..... AND, Winn and I will match your donations as we have done in the past.
This year the greatest need for OBCA is to invest in their talented instructors. Like most of the organizations my many friends support, the past two years have been hard on the critical people who make OBCA what it is, our instructors. These instructors are gifted educators and facilitators of experience, who bring their backcountry and technical skills and their passion for the mission to every course. OB alumni of our programs hold their instructors in memory with gratitude and awe, even decades later.
By taking advantage of my lapse of judgement in agreeing to rappel and supporting my campaign you will enable the OBCA instructors to help turn out the next generation of compassionate leaders. Specifically, you will help:
- Attract and retain new instructors reflective of California's diversity
- Build back to the pre-pandemic number of instructors to fully serve
our course schedule
- Provide world-class training and support
- Expand an apprenticeship program to recruit and train more
educators of color
The apprenticeship program is crucial to OBCA's ability to continue providing career pathways for promising field instructors who share lived experiences with the students we serve and are key to serving youth effectively.
Examples of what your donation can provide are:
- $500 covers a 3-day intensive avalanche hazard management
course
- $1,000 pays for Wilderness First Aid Response certification
- $3,500 underwrites 2-1/2 weeks of immersive new instructor training
With thanks in advance for everything you have done to support me and OBCA in the past help me meet my goal and force me off the Hilton one more time before I get too old for this nonsense....
David
This year the greatest need for OBCA is to invest in their talented instructors. Like most of the organizations my many friends support, the past two years have been hard on the critical people who make OBCA what it is, our instructors. These instructors are gifted educators and facilitators of experience, who bring their backcountry and technical skills and their passion for the mission to every course. OB alumni of our programs hold their instructors in memory with gratitude and awe, even decades later.
By taking advantage of my lapse of judgement in agreeing to rappel and supporting my campaign you will enable the OBCA instructors to help turn out the next generation of compassionate leaders. Specifically, you will help:
- Attract and retain new instructors reflective of California's diversity
- Build back to the pre-pandemic number of instructors to fully serve
our course schedule
- Provide world-class training and support
- Expand an apprenticeship program to recruit and train more
educators of color
The apprenticeship program is crucial to OBCA's ability to continue providing career pathways for promising field instructors who share lived experiences with the students we serve and are key to serving youth effectively.
Examples of what your donation can provide are:
- $500 covers a 3-day intensive avalanche hazard management
course
- $1,000 pays for Wilderness First Aid Response certification
- $3,500 underwrites 2-1/2 weeks of immersive new instructor training
With thanks in advance for everything you have done to support me and OBCA in the past help me meet my goal and force me off the Hilton one more time before I get too old for this nonsense....
David
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