Outside Las Vegas Foundation

“A copy is provided to all of the board members prior to filing. The board reviews the form 990 and approves either verbally at a board meeting or via email.”

“Transactions with parties with whom a conflicting interest exists may be undertaken only if all the following are observed: 1. The conflicting interest is fully disclosed; 2. The person with the conflict of interest is excluded from the discussion and approval of such transaction; 3. A competitive bid or comparable valuation exists; and 4. The board (or a duly constituted committee thereof) has determined that the transaction is in the best interest of the organization.”

“Gallagher associates, a firm retained for organizational development, was engaged for assessments of salaries for not-for-profit executive directors in the las vegas area. In that assessment, it was found that the executive director of the outside las vegas foundation is in the lower tier for executive director compensation. The board also engaged in a separate round of assessments by seeking comparisons and guidance from non-profit ceo's in the southern nevada region.”

“Governing documents are made available to the public upon request.”

“To empower residents and visitors alike by promoting options for healthy and happy lifestyles through outdoor adventures. To provide lifelong learning s.t.e.a.m. Programs for young children and older students that inspire studying the outdoors. To offer meaningful service opportunities that encourage stewardship of our natural landscapes, local parks, and urban trails. To create valuable stakeholder partnerships and consistently build positive relationships with foundations, businesses, government bodies, and other community groups that value nevada's treasured outdoor environments.”

“Volunteer programs: the core of our mission is rooted in providing outdoor-based community volunteer projects that connect individuals and groups of all ages, backgrounds and abilities to the outdoors through unique volunteer service projects. Our team works with local municipalities and federal land management partners to connect community members with hands-on learning and service opportunities on public lands, urban parks and trails. Volunteer projects typically include tree planting, native habitat restoration, litter removal/recovery, painting/cleaning and other outdoor recreation infrastructure improvements. Throughout our 2024-2025 programming season, we hosted 80 volunteer events that engaged 3,341 volunteers and generated 8,037 hours of service. Together our volunteers planted 269 trees, established 1,003 native plants, and recovered over 19,188 pounds of trash from outdoor recreation areas located across clark county.”

“Outreach programs: get outdoors nevada serves as an important community connector, bridging our local community of residents with the various municipalities and land agencies that manage public lands and outdoor recreation spaces across southern nevada. In particular, our organization serves as both the contracted facilitator for the regional open space and trails collaborative and as the official philanthropic partner, or "friends group" for lake mead national recreation area. In these capacities, we invest time and resources into developing, supporting and building community awareness around major outdoor-focused projects and initiatives such as the vegas valley rim trail or restoration of historic railroad tunnel trail. We also provide educational outreach programming across a wide variety of community-based events, all focused on building increased awareness and connection with the outdoors through initiatives that include "leave no trace- and "meet your mojave."”

“Environmental education programs: get outdoors nevada provides a range of environmental education programs designed to foster lifelong connections between k-12 youth and southern nevada's outdoor environments. A core focus of our programs is increasing the accessibility of hands-on, place-based learning experiences in the outdoors for all students. This goal is achieved through delivering experiential learning opportunities such as guided field trips, native habitat educational gardens and our next generation science standards (ngss) program. We also partner with clark county to deliver the mojave max program, currently celebrating its 25th season, to elementary schools across clark county. In the 2024-2025 school year we delivered 255 hours of classroom programming that impacted over 6,725 students - including 780 students who were taken on guided field trips in nevada's public lands.”