Development Director
Get Outdoors Nevada (Formerly The Outside Las Vegas Foundation)
Las Vegas, Nevada Area
Get Outdoors Nevada (GON) (formerly the Outside Las Vegas Foundation) is dedicated to connecting people of all backgrounds and ages to Nevada’s diverse outdoor places through education, volunteerism, and outreach. We strive to foster and support a community that discovers, experiences and connects to our state’s many natural environments, from wild landscapes and recreational areas to urban trails. Education programs connect a range of audiences through S.T.E.A.M. education curriculum, field experiences and interpretive media to outdoor places such as the Valley of Fire State Park, the Spring Mountains Ranch State Park, Desert National Wildlife Refuge, the Springs Preserve, Clark County Wetlands Park, and a wide variety of local parks and trails. Volunteer programs provide individual residents, community groups, and businesses community enhancement and support opportunities throughout the region (in partnership with the City of Las Vegas, the City of North Las Vegas, Clark County, and City of Henderson). Since 2012, we are proud to report, over 15,000 volunteer hours have been logged participating in GON’s Volunteer Beautification Projects around Nevada. Get Outdoors Nevada Day, our community outreach event, connects people of all backgrounds and ages to Nevada’s diverse outdoor interactive recreation activities, volunteerism, tourism, and local business. This family-friendly event combines fun, interactive activities with themes of stewardship inspiring an appreciation of how the outdoors increase our quality of life through discovering, experiencing, and connecting with unique landscapes, local parks, and urban trails.Collaboration efforts include Lake Mead Circle, LV Healing Garden, large planning projects such as the Vegas Valley Rim Trail, the Regional Open Space and Trails Workgroup (a working group of the Southern Nevada Regional Planning Coalition including planners from all local jurisdictions), to include BLM, US Fish and Wildlife Service.