THIS VOTE HAS ENDED.
The teams below are finalists for the Grand Prize of $12,000 in the Gnarly Fuel Grant. One team will also receive $3,000 based on YOUR votes!
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Blind Stokers Club
The Blind Stokers Club (BSC) has roots from 2005, based on teamwork and mentoring, to introduce and share the simple pleasures of recreational bicycling with those who cannot see well enough to pilot a bike. The Club operates by forming teams and conducting rides. Teams are composed of 3 parts: stoker, captain, and tandem bike.
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Asian Trail Mix
Asian Trail Mix was created to promote diversity and inclusion for POC especially AAPI in trail running at all levels of fitness, encouraging them to push themselves to their limits.
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Tempo Training Club
Our new but growing run club (Tempo Training Run Club) was initially born in efforts to help provide a safe place for our local valley women to run together. Many of our active female community have experienced and continue to experience harassment especially when running alone. As a passionate runner myself who run the same roads and trail who saw and continue see the same runners daily I knew it was time to act. We officially became a local run club about 2 months ago but since January our numbers went from 3-5 runners to now about 20 consistent group runners. Since our start, we have hosted local mural runs to help promote our city artists, hosted ladies led run to promote safety and educate our community about harassment, and have hosted trail runs and introduced our local states parks to residents who have never visited our local mountains. We want to provide a safe heaven to folks and promote a healthier lifestyle a solid supportive community and sense of connection to their city.
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Dirtbag Runners
We are a team of Black Indigenous and People of Color trail runners. We seek to diversify start lines and help make the sport more accessible for marginalized groups. We are activists through trail running and raise awareness and advocate for causes we believe are important and crucial to making the world a better place. We honor Indigenous lands. We inspire people who do not feel safe or wanted to try trail running. We actively help to make trail running more safe inclusive and diverse.
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ROMP
The Range of Motion Project (ROMP) is a global non-profit organization dedicated to providing high-quality prosthetic care and follow up services to amputees without access. ROMP believes that when you have access to the right technology, the right team, and the right mindset, no summit is too high. We climb to show the world the power of mobility and the importance of fair access to prosthetic care. This year, our team on Cotopaxi and our global community are coming together to raise $150,000 to directly fund necessary prosthetic care for 100 patients in Ecuador.
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Runners for Public Lands
The vision of Runners for Public Lands is to build inclusive running communities dedicated to protecting the environment. We strive to protect the people and places we love by organizing runners for climate action sustainability practices the protection of public lands and equitable access to nature. Our 2022-2023 goals are to: (1) Educate runners on environmental issues (2) Create new programs and initiatives that will expand and diversify our community of runners (3) Expand RPL's geographic presence throughout the United States (4) Partner with organizations that align with and advance RPL's mission and (5) Practice what we preach i.e. hold ourselves accountable to our mission. We are actively working toward achieving these goals through regionally initiatives (in the Ventura Santa Barbara LA County area) and well as through our National-level Programs.
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Awesome Racing Collective
Awesome Racing Collective (ARC) is a member-driven bicycle racing team in Indianapolis, IN. Cycling is and has always been a sport that favors the wealthy, as access to high quality racing bikes, sanctioned events, team memberships and racing apparel can carry a significant financial burden and be cost prohibitive to many. ARC aims to partly bridge that gap to help develop talented riders that may otherwise go unsupported due to these challenges. Equally important, at the core of this team is a desire to improve our local community through outreach and service, as this provides a higher purpose to the entire endeavor. Getting women and BIPOC communities on bikes and seeing that EVERYONE interested in cycling feels safe and accepted is integral to our goal of making cycling more inclusive for all.
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Cowgill Trail Collective
Cowgill Trail Collective positively impacts the trail running community by fostering interactions helping runners achieve challenging objectives making trail stewardship fun and frequent lowering barriers to entry in the sport and organizing unique trail running events. There is a place for everyone in the herd from runners embarking on their first trail adventures to established runners training to win races - we place equal emphasis on all runners’ goals. We are actively seeking approaches to make the sport more accessible to BIPOC LGBTQ+ and economically burdened folks. We collaborate with companies and groups in the area to put on shoe demos raffles and group runs to draw runners we might not otherwise reach. The prize money would defray costs for permitting and provide startup funds. In concert with our goal of improving accessibility to the sport the prize money would allow us to keep race fees low and more importantly waive race registration fees entirely for those who are financially burdened and/or underrepresented in the trail-running community.
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Hiking My Feelings
Picture this: You wake up on a Saturday morning and are craving some outdoor time but don't have anyone to hike with. You're also a human with feelings, and you're looking for a way to bring more balance into your life. You roll out of bed, check the Hiking My Feelings Family portal, and join a hike near you. No more more missed adventures because you don't have anyone to share them with. We started Hiking My Feelings in 2018 with Sydney's speaking tour, sharing the story of how hiking helped her heal her mind and body. Winning this grant would give us the resources to plan and execute the launch of our local hiking chapters, helping us expand our mission to improve community health by creating more opportunities for people to experience the healing power of nature.
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