Passion For Life
An Organization of Inclusivity
Outdoor Appreciation Mentors
Passion for Life Mentors
MISSION
Helping kids and communities thrive by providing education in 4 areas:
1- Introductions to 41 outdoor passions.
2- Introductions to careers in the outdoors.
3- Education to create healthier lifestyles.
4- Life skills - effective communication, financial literacy, leadership.
Our Passionate Team
Bringing people together from all walks of life who want to make a difference.
Our organization consists of an executive director, 5 board members, and 136 volunteers. We all recognize how lucky we were to have been introduced to the outdoors and want to share this blessing with others.
George Gooley
Executive Director
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
-RWE
Russ Palmer
Outdoorsman
Board Member
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life. And see if I could not learn what it had to teach. And not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. - HDT
Gina Montefeltri
Outdoorswoman
Board Member
To walk in nature is to witness a thousand miracles. -MD
Dr. Lori Towle
Nature-based Learning Expert
We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them. -WAW
Not all who wander are lost. - JRRT
John Bilodeau
Outdoorsman
Ambassador
Carve your name not in stone, but in the hearts of men. -WD
Julie Wright
Jules
Outdoorswoman
Board Member
Now I see the secret of making the best person, it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. -WW
Ryan Goldberg
Outdoorsman
Board Member
Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better. - AE
Cornelius Hudak
Outdoorsman
Board Member
The mountains are calling, and I must go.
-JM
Pete Pappas
Outdoorsman
Senior Ambassador
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. - HDT
Jason Collins
Fisheries Biologist
Ambassador
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it. - HF