Part One: Leadership Project Mentoring Part Two: Deep Wilderness Trek Part Three: Leadership Action Project Part Four: Leadership Enrichment Part Five: The Wild Gift Leader Network

The goal of Wild Gift is to foster a life-long commitment to leadership that benefits humankind and the natural environment and to build an expanding network of leaders who provide a collective wisdom and are a resource for individual and collaborative leadership projects. To this end, we support the skill and well-being of the individual leader during and after the Wild Gift learning opportunity.

Near the end of their leadership action projects, Wild Gift recipients travel to Sun Valley, Idaho, the home of the Wild Gift organization.  Reunited in the largest wilderness in the contiguous forty-eight states, Idaho’s Frank Church River of No Return wilderness, they present their project results to peers, alumni and investors during a seven-day synthesis trek.  Current projects may be expanded and new collaborative projects spawned.  Through its Leader Network, Wild Gift keeps alumni in touch and informed about project developments and employment opportunities associated with their work. And there will always be the opportunity for alumni to return to the wild as mentors to new Wild Gift recipients and to assist on donor trips.

Funding and Implementation.  Wild Gift recipients receive a base grant of $5,000-$10,000 to launch their project and are eligible for an additional matching grant up to $2,500.  The project grant is in addition to the gifts of the deep wilderness trek and leadership enrichment.  The amount of the project grant will be decided by the Wild Gift recipient selection committee based upon the nature and scope of the project and the thoroughness of the project budget analysis.  Project funds are disbursed quarterly, the amount dependent upon the quarterly evaluation.