The American Alpine Club, the country’s oldest and largest climbing advocacy organization, in partnership with The North Face will give away $50,000 in grant money to climbers as part of the 2019 Live Your Dream Grants.
Applications will be accepted online until March 31, 2019. The grants will range from $200 to $1,000 per individual. There is an application fee of $5 for members of the AAC and $20 for non-members and AAC membership is required only if a grant is awarded.
Since 2012, the American Alpine Club and The North Face have enabled nearly 600 adventures large and small with nearly $275,000 in financial support. Live Your Dream Grants are unique in that the main objective is to help ordinary climbers improve their skills and to enable life-changing adventure.
Kalli Schumacher, a 2018 Live Your Dream Grant recipient, used her grant money to climb in multiple mountain ranges across the United States over the course of a single summer. Reflecting on the experience, Kalli said, “I think Live Your Dream’s biggest impact on my progression was to unravel the mystique behind the mountains. As a woman of color and a mountaineer, promoting inclusivity across race, gender, economic status, and whatever barrier-to-entry someone might experience is very important to me, and it’s exactly what Live Your Dream does. This grant gives opportunity where it might not otherwise exist.”
The Live Your Dream Grant is designed for everything from bouldering to big walls, alpinism to ski mountaineering, peak bagging to bolt clipping and everything in between.
For more information about the Live Your Dream Grant, visit: americanalpineclub.org/live-your-dream-grant/
