The Olympic Nature Experience sponsorship program supports all elements of our organization from maintenance cost to teacher salaries to our shared gear library. These businesses help us keep our programs going every day! For more information on how you can become a sponsor, contact our Executive Director, Office@olympicnatureexperience.org
Our Sponsors
We couldn’t do what we do without the help of local foundations and organizations who share our vision to get more kids outside, more families to connect to the natural world and more caretakers for the land we love.
Our Grantors
Albert Haller FoundationThe Haller Foundation supports many organizations in our region and we are proud to be on their list again for 2024. This year, we are able to develop a seasonal employee training program to expand our summer program offerings, create a new promotional video to introduce our programs to new families in local public school communities, and offer a free day camp for public school students prior to summer so new students may experience our programs .
Thanks to the Albert Haller Foundation, we are one step closer to making outdoor education accessible to more children on the North Olympic Peninsula.
Albert Haller understood the value of education and community. His entire life was an expression of these values; his legacy is dedicated to their continuance. By establishing his foundation, Albert Haller ensured that his vision would live on to help the places and people he cared about so much, spreading the benefits in the same spirit of giving that he manifested in life.
The Foundation is managed by a board of five volunteer directors including the Superintendents of both Sequim and Port Angeles School districts. Their charge has been to carry out the objectives of Albert Haller’s legacy, which has been done faithfully for 25 years.
Ben and Myrtle Walkling Memorial Trust The trust awards grants to encourage new civic and charitable projects to benefit citizens of Port Angeles and Clallam County. Myrtle Walkling, who died in 1992, created the trust in her will and funded it with more than $1 million. It was her intent that the income from the trust be used for charitable and civic projects that otherwise might not happen.
This year, Walkling Memorial Trust is providing support towards our tuition assistance funds to ensure outdoor learning is accessible to families of different backgrounds and who are using different educational paths for their children. This supports Olympic Nature Experience in its mission to provide inclusive and immersive outdoor experiences to youth in our community.