At Elevate Youth, we recognize that one major barrier to spending time outside is lack of access to the proper gear. As the winter creeps into Boston, families and communities are searching for quality coats, hats, gloves, and jackets to keep them warm until the spring.

Elevate Youth was founded in 2018 to increase diversity outdoors through access and to connect kids to nature. We serve underfunded communities with our high-impact outdoor programing and adult mentors to develop comfort and habits of being outside.

158 volunteers support Elevate Youth and our mission! We are so grateful for the incredible people around the north east that make time to support us.

Since our founding in 2018, Elevate Youth has launched 535 trips! These trips have brought together staff, volunteers, and youth from all over Boston.

We’ve empowered 858 kids outdoors since our founding in 2018. This number is incredible! We are so proud of each of our 858 youth for trying something new and branching out of their comfort zones to join us.

Over the past week, friend of Elevate Youth Mike Dacey conquered the 300-mile VTXL Bike Route, all in the name of EY!

Elevate Youth kicked off our fall programming in a unique way this year – a girl’s hiking trip to the White Mountains! After school on Friday, September 16th, Sophie, Hailey, and 10 youthers from around Boston piled into our van to head up to New Hampshire.

As our beloved youthers are headed back to school in the coming weeks, Elevate Youth’s schedule is looking a little different. Our mission, though, stays the same.

The rumor going around is that summer is coming to a close… that has not stopped Elevate Youth from an incredible final week of summer programming! For four straight days, EY Staff (and some amazing volunteers) brought a cohort of kids from the BCYF Leahy Holloran Center on back-to-back trips for our Adventure Camp.

It’s finally happening: the Back to School ads. While Target and Walmart are ready for you to branch back into fall again, Elevate Youth (and the 90 degree weather) still have a firm grasp on summer. This week, EY ran a full week of Adventure Camp for the Boys and Girls Club of Dorchester with no mention of school.