NON PROFITS
Since 2018, Gear Hut has helped raise over $84,500 for NPOs
2024/2025 Applications are CLOSED! Read about our selected NPOs below!
From improving trails, getting youth outside to explore, to serving and protecting Nevada wild lands, these NPOs are passionate about our local outdoor community. Gear Hut offers the option to donate your portion of the profit to any of the non-profits listed below.
Our Non-Profit Organizations are featured as the "Non Profit of the Month" at the store twice a year. We also host a "10% of sales" donation days where Gear Hut donates a portion of the day's total sales to the featured NPO.
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Introducing Gear Hut's 2024/2025 NPO Partners:
Skiing is Believing:
Our goal is "To promote, support & ease access to outdoor sports".
Skiing is Believing / Biking is Believing offers year round day camps, after school and coaching programs for ALL children, and some limited offerings for adults, focused on a variety of sport and community service to help develop life skills. Sport & physical activity have the power to change lives in numerous capacities and while SIB focuses on snow & bike sports, our programming offers over 40 different sports to all people no matter their background or experience.
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Truckee Meadows Parks Foundation:
The Truckee Meadows Parks Foundation protects and enhances our communities' livability through public engagement, education, and the sustainability of our parks, open spaces, and trails. We cultivate active environmental stewards who take proactive roles in the preservation and improvement of parks which strengthens the bond between the community and local open spaces.
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Reno Burrito Project:The Reno Burrito Project rolls and delivers 500+ burritos every other week to feed and connect with the unhoused community of Reno. Beyond food, we believe people need genuine human connection to nourish them, so our volunteers take the time to engage with the community and allow them to feel seen, heard, and valued. Our mission is to spread kindness one burrito at a time.
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Nevada Nordic:
Nevada Nordic is bringing Nordic Skiing back to Nevada! We provide 19km of groomed multi-use winter trails for FREE community access! Our organization is 100% donation-based, maintaining trails for all winter enthusiasts from Nordic skiers to snowshoers and fat bikers. Our high elevation near Mt. Rose meadows allows us to consistently provide quality grooming from December through April!
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Adventure Risk Challenge:
Adventure Risk Challenge’s mission is to empower underserved youth through transformational literacy, leadership, and outdoor experiences. ARC’s unique integration of academics and outdoor education includes an English Language Arts curriculum aligned with Common Core. We focus on reading comprehension, building vocabulary, thinking critically, public speaking, and improving academic confidence. Through ARC’s programming, high school students develop positive social and cooperative skills, raise their overall academic performance, learn about their role in stewardship of our natural environment, and become more engaged members of their communities.
Great Basin Outdoor School:
Where students are immersed in day trips and multi-day overnight ecology camps in spectacular natural settings on Nevada’s shoreline of Lake Tahoe and other local sites. Students hike, snowshoe, learn local ecology with hands-on standards-based activities, and volunteer on conservation projects. Teachers get professional development courses and young adults get leadership training and experience. Great Basin Outdoor School operates exclusively in Nevada and has served thousands of children and adults as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit since 1998. Children in need are included thanks to generous community support.
Reno Bike Project:
Reno Bike Project (RBP) is a non-profit community bicycle shop and resource, which advocates for a sustainable cycling community through education, collaboration, and accessibility for everyone in the Truckee Meadows. They believe bicycle is the world's greatest, most utilized mode of transportation and that every individual, regardless of age, gender, race or class has a right to afford, maintain and enjoy one.