REI Commits to Youth With $100,000 Award.Business Editors NOTE TO MEDIA: Photo is available in a Smart News Release(TM) on Business Wire's Home Page at www.businesswire.com and at www.newstream.com SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 27, 2001 Outdoor retailer Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI) announced at its annual meeting last night a commitment exceeding $100,000 to encourage young people's participation in outdoor activities and environmental stewardship The integration and application of environmental values into the military mission in order to sustain readiness, improve quality of life, strengthen civil relations, and preserve valuable natural resources. . The commitment is evenly split between Inner City Outings, a youth program of the Sierra Club Sierra Club, national organization in the United States dedicated to the preservation and expansion of the world's parks, wildlife, and wilderness areas. Founded (1892) in California by a group led by the Scottish-American conservationist John Muir, the Sierra Club , and the Outdoor Recreation Foundation, the non-profit foundation of the Outdoor Recreation Coalition of America (ORCA Orca - Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 1986. Similar to Modula-2, but with support for distributed programming using shared data objects, like Linda. A 'graph' data type removes the need for pointers. Version for the Amoeba OS, comes with Amoeba. ). Representatives from both organizations attended REI's March 26 annual membership meeting to receive the contributions and speak about their programs. "REI is offering leadership in getting kids outdoors for two equally important reasons," said REI CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Dennis Madsen. "We want kids to actively enjoy our nation's natural lands and appreciate the thrill thrill (thril) a vibration felt by the examiner on palpation. diastolic thrill one felt over the precordium during ventricular diastole in advanced aortic insufficiency. of muscle-powered recreation, while also encouraging the next generation of advocates for the outdoor environment." Inner City Outings (ICO ICO Icon (File Name Extension) ICO In Case Of ICO Information Commissioner's Office (UK) ICO Instituto de Crédito Oficial (Spain: Official Credit Institute) ) is a 30-year-old community outreach Outreach is an effort by an organization or group to connect its ideas or practices to the efforts of other organizations, groups, specific audiences or the general public. program developed by the Sierra Club to provide wilderness adventures for people whom otherwise wouldn't have them. Participants include low-income youth of diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds, hearing- or visually-impaired individuals and people with physical disabilities. Founded by the Sierra Club's San Francisco Bay San Francisco Bay, 50 mi (80 km) long and from 3 to 13 mi (4.8–21 km) wide, W Calif.; entered through the Golden Gate, a strait between two peninsulas. Chapter, there are now 50 ICO programs nationwide. Trained volunteers lead as many as 1,000 outings a year, serving more than 15,000 young people. REI's $50,000 grant supports the equipment needs for the organization's chapters. Because REI also will discount purchases for the chapters, the actual value of the grant well exceeds $50,000. ORCA is the trade association representing the interests of more than 1,100 companies supporting outdoor muscle-powered activities. The REI grant will help sponsor an April forum on youth and the outdoors. The grant also creates a $45,000 challenge to encourage involvement of other outdoor companies in the funding, design and implementation of an industry program to encourage youth participation in muscle-powered outdoor activities and environmental advocacy. The combined donations are among the largest single focus grants made by REI and are the launching point for a multi-year REI effort to support youth. "According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. studies done by ORCA, two-thirds of those who regularly participate in outdoor activities were introduced to the outdoors before the age of 17. These commitments will encourage the connection between kids and the people who can get them into the outdoors. This connection is essential to our business, the well-being of our society and the future of our wild and natural places," Madsen said. In addition to its grants, all REI retail stores will stock free brochures that offer resources for how adults and young people can start enjoying outdoor recreation. REI was established in 1938 by a group of 23 Pacific Northwest mountaineers who formed a consumer cooperative to ensure quality products for its members. Today, REI has more than 1.8 million active members served by 60 retail stores in the U.S and Japan and operates three Internet sites: www.rei.com, www.rei-outlet.com and www.rei.co.jp. While anyone may shop at REI, members receive special discounts and a share in the company's profits through an annual patronage Patronage See also Philanthropy. Alidoro fairy godfather to Italian Cinderella. [Ital. Opera: Rossini, Cinderella, Westerman, 120–121] Alphonso, Don supports Bias in return for political favors. [Fr. Lit. refund based on their purchases. Lifetime REI memberships are available for a one-time $15 fee. A portion of REI's profits is set aside each year for support of conservation and recreation causes. REI has given more than $8 million since 1976 to such efforts around the nation. Additional Resources: Sierra Club Inner City Outings Debra Asher, Inner City Outings National Coordinator 415/977-5568 www.sierraclub.org/ico ORCA Frank Hugelmeyer, 303/444-3353 www.ORCA.org Note: A Photo is available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.032701/bb5 |
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