Spring has officially sprung, and we have dipped our toes into a summer sport for our April Happy Helmets! We are overwhelmed with the amount of support provided by everyone, from the bottom of our hearts - thank YOU! We are happy to announce that our newest Happy Helmets donation from Petzl was extremely successful.
What is Happy Helmets?
Happy Helmets is a give back program we launched last month! We donate new helmets to local charities, schools and youth programs. Each month a new helmet sponsor & donor is selected. Our goal of this program is to give individuals access to brand new helmets to keep their brains happy & healthy!
Big Thanks To Petzl
Petzl engineers and produces top of the line climbing gear. They generously donated helmets of various sizes and awesome colors for both adults and children.
A Deeper Look into Petzl:
“For 50 years, Petzl has been built around four pillars, four fundamental values that motivate every decision we make: remaining a stable family business, encouraging innovation to imagine the best solutions, insisting on industrial excellence with the goal of zero defects, and remaining engaged with our communities by providing global best practices.”
Outside of being an extremely successful business Petzl has opened its arms to nonprofits through the Petzl foundation.
“The mission of the Petzl Foundation is to support or initiate projects which serve the public interest. These projects shall seek a harmonious balance between human activities in the mountains and the vertical world relative to their impact on our natural, cultural and economic environments. “
Our April Helmet Recipients
Elevated Mountain Guides is a Salt Lake City, UT based nonprofit that began in 2018. They are committed to empowering underserved communities - locally and abroad - looking to access the outdoors, expand their expertise, and engage with nature.
In 2019 their programs had expanded to work with even more underserved youth in their community, including the addition of Liberty Elementary, a title one school in SLC. At this school alone they had 114 applicants for just 20 spots in their program!
They also launched Embark Outdoors in 2019. Embark is a program that introduces wilderness skills, rock climbing, and snow sports to young women in Salt Lake and Utah County’s ever-growing refugee community.
These programs are just the beginning and will serve as the models for future projects around the world and here in the United States. In addition to the socio-economic advancement of local communities, we hope that these projects will also inspire environmental stewardship and an appreciation for our natural world.
