Your Year-End Gift Can Change a Young Person’s Life
From Park City to Tahoe and communities across Colorado, year-end giving helps ensure more young people have access to mentorship, outdoor experiences, and the opportunity to thrive.
The end of the year is one of the most meaningful times to give.
It’s a chance to reflect on the causes that matter most, invest in your community, and help create opportunities for the next generation. For SOS Outreach, year-end giving fuels the mentorship and outdoor programs that help thousands of young people build confidence, resilience, leadership skills, and a lifelong sense of belonging.
Whether you’ve supported SOS Outreach for years or are considering your first gift, every donation helps open doors for young people who might otherwise never have the opportunity to experience the outdoors. Even better, every year-end gift made through our giving campaigns will be matched, allowing your generosity to go even further in supporting youth and families.
Three Ways to Support SOS Outreach This Giving Season
This year, there are several opportunities to maximize your impact while supporting youth in your local community.
Live PC Give PC
November 6, 2026
Live PC Give PC is Park City’s annual day of generosity, bringing together thousands of donors to support nonprofits serving Summit County. SOS Outreach is proud to participate each year, helping provide life-changing mentorship and outdoor experiences for local youth.
Colorado Gives Day
December 8, 2026 (Early Giving begins November 1.)
Colorado Gives Day is one of the state’s largest giving movements. Early giving allows you to schedule your donation beginning November 1, making it easy to support SOS Outreach while helping us build momentum throughout the giving season.
Give Back Tahoe
December 1–31, 2026
Throughout December, Give Back Tahoe celebrates the nonprofits strengthening North Lake Tahoe and Truckee. Every gift helps local organizations—including SOS Outreach—continue serving youth and families throughout the region.
No matter which campaign you choose, every donation will be matched—doubling your impact and helping even more young people access mentorship, outdoor experiences, and life-changing opportunities.
What Your Gift Makes Possible
Every donation to SOS Outreach is an investment in people.
It helps provide access to skiing and snowboarding, caring adult mentors, leadership development, social-emotional learning, and community service opportunities that shape young lives far beyond a single winter season.
Last year alone, SOS Outreach served more than 3,900 youth nationwide, connecting young people with mentors, outdoor experiences, and life-changing opportunities to grow.
For many participants, these programs remove barriers that would otherwise keep them from experiencing the outdoors. For others, they provide something equally valuable: a trusted adult who believes in them.
Your generosity helps make all of that possible.
The Ripple Effect of Giving
A donation to SOS Outreach does more than fund a program day.
It creates a ripple effect that extends through families, schools, and entire communities.
Young people who participate in SOS programs build confidence, strengthen relationships, and develop leadership skills that stay with them long after the snow melts.
Our Mentor Program outcomes demonstrate that impact:
96% of youth report having adults in their lives who care about and support them.
94% say they have places in their community where they belong.
95% feel connected to others through community programs.
93% report making plans to achieve their goals.
89% say they regularly volunteer to help others.
Today’s participants become tomorrow’s leaders, mentors, instructors, and community advocates.
You’re Joining a Community of Changemakers
When you give to SOS Outreach, you’re joining thousands of people who believe every young person deserves the chance to succeed.
Our community includes volunteer mentors, alumni, parents, educators, outdoor enthusiasts, business leaders, and donors from across the country. Together, they’re creating opportunities that no one could create alone.
Your gift says:
I believe every young person deserves someone in their corner.
I believe the outdoors should be accessible to everyone.
I believe mentorship changes lives.
Giving isn’t just a financial transaction.
It’s becoming part of a community committed to building brighter futures.
Why Year-End Giving Matters
For nonprofits like SOS Outreach, the final months of the year are especially important.
Year-end donations help us:
Prepare for the upcoming winter season.
Recruit and train volunteer mentors.
Provide scholarships for youth participants.
Purchase equipment and transportation.
Expand access for families facing financial barriers.
Invest in leadership and social-emotional learning programming.
Every gift helps ensure that cost is never the reason a young person misses the opportunity to participate.
Double Your Impact with a Matching Gift
One of the best parts of giving during our year-end campaigns is knowing your generosity goes even further.
Every gift made through SOS Outreach’s year-end giving campaigns will be matched, helping provide more mentorship, more outdoor experiences, and more opportunities for young people to discover confidence, resilience, and belonging.
That means your support can help reach twice as many young people while maximizing the impact of every dollar you give.
Whether you’re making your first donation or you’ve supported SOS Outreach for years, there’s never been a better time to invest in the next generation.
Give Through Your Donor-Advised Fund
If you have a Donor-Advised Fund (DAF), year-end is an excellent time to recommend a grant to SOS Outreach.
Giving through a DAF is one of the easiest and most tax-efficient ways to support the causes you care about while helping meet your charitable giving goals. Many donors choose to use their DAF for year-end giving because it allows them to make a meaningful impact while simplifying their philanthropy.
If you have questions about recommending a grant from your Donor-Advised Fund, our development team is happy to help.
Every Gift Matters
Whether you give $25 or $2,500, your generosity helps create opportunities that can shape a young person’s future.
It helps a first-time skier discover confidence.
It helps a mentor build a lasting relationship with a young person.
It helps a participant realize they belong.
And years later, it may help inspire the next community leader, teacher, outdoor professional, or mentor who pays that opportunity forward.
That’s the lasting impact of giving.
Make Your Year-End Gift Today
As another year comes to a close, we invite you to invest in the next generation.
Support your local community through Live PC Give PC, Colorado Gives Day, or Give Back Tahoe, and make your gift go even further. Every donation made through our year-end giving campaigns will be matched, helping create twice the opportunity for young people to build confidence, discover belonging, and thrive through mentorship and the outdoors.
Whether you choose to give through a local giving day, a Donor-Advised Fund, or a direct year-end contribution, your generosity helps ensure that more young people have access to caring mentors, transformative outdoor experiences, and the opportunity to reach their full potential.
Together, we can ensure that every young person has the opportunity to thrive. Thank you for being part of the SOS Outreach community.