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Sixteen groups will share 2016 Keen Effect grants

08/09/2016
Footwear brand Keen has announced the recipients of cash awards it makes available to non-profits through a programme called Keen Effect. The company will make a total of $100,000 available to help the organisations’ work.

In this, the third edition of the programme, 500 non-profit organisations from nine different countries applied for a share of the grants. In the US alone, applications came in from 49 of the 50 states.

Sixteen organisations have come through as winners of a share of the money this year. Thirteen of them are from the US, including Virginia-based Ascend: Leadership Through Athletics, which aims to empower girls in Afghanistan by introducing them to outdoor recreation.

Two of the winning initiatives are in Canada, promoting outdoor recreation in wild areas of Alberta and among young people in Toronto. The fifteenth recipient is Escalando Fronteras, a group based in Monterrey, Mexico, that aims to introduce rock climbing to marginalised young people to foster in them “a lifelong, sustainable relationship with the outdoors”.


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