Black Outside, Inc is a 501c3 (pending) organization. Our mission is to provide transformative outdoor educational experiences to students of color.
Black Outside provides culturally relevant outdoor experiences to youth of color across central Texas. We (re)connect youth to the outdoors through school-site programming, overnight summer camps, and weekend overnight summits. We intentionally craft experiences that build off of the powerful history of people of color in the outdoors and deepen the leadership skills of youth.
In the summer of 2019, Black Outside, Inc proudly resurrected America's first summer overnight camp for black girls: Camp Founder Girls which began in San Antonio, TX.
Today Camp Founder Girls carries on the proud legacy of Founder Girls past by providing an immersive week-long overnight camp centered on bravery, confidence, creativity, and strength.
Charles Roundtree Bloom Project aims to create a space of communal healing for the youth of incarcerated parents by:
- facilitating healing-centered outdoor experiences (meditative hikes, camping, community gardening, and healing circles).
- cultivate communal caring.
- offering a culturally relevant, place-based environmental education.
- introducing youth to environmental careers.
- supporting youth in achieving their goals.
- helping youth develop a sense of agency.
Camp SEED provides an opportunity for youth to develop physical, social and emotional skills to be better leaders in their communities through summer camp.
1st gen college, must attend school site partnered with Black Outside
Interested in volunteering with the Charles Roundtree Bloom Project?
We just need a few pieces of information to get the application process started. As you may already know, we provide healing-centered outdoor experiences and culturally relevant environmental education for youth of incarcerated parents in San Antonio. Volunteers play a great role in our programming, and making sure our volunteers fit will with the youth we serve is very important to us.
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For volunteer inquiries email [email protected].