Moving your mission.
Get Outside Bus is redesigning who has the power to create transformational learning experiences.
We partners with trusted mentors and community leaders already working with communities, and brings them the resources to run experiential residential, camping, and travel-based programs focused on their goals. Buses, gear, food, coaching. It’s your way, outside.
Plan a program
Bring your people, your mission, and your goals. We bring the resources, transportation, and coaching to make it happen.
Support a bus
Your investments go further when they help organizations already serving young people add experiences to their programming.
See the impact
Our logic model is rooted in partnership and collaboration. Hear the stories and the numbers our model creates.
Gift a gift that goes farther.
Get Outside Bus runs at 30% to 50% less than comparable programs, which means your gift translates into more young people getting outside.
Our Model
Mission extension, not imposition.
We believe that getting outside is good. We know from research that people are more likely go to - and keep going - when someone they already trust takes them there. So we make it easier for those people to do just that.
Our goal? Turn first times into forever, by giving the people who know how to serve their communities the tools to do that outside.
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Set your goal
What outcome are you hoping for? Education, leadership, community, joy. You tell us.
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Design your program
We help you shape the trip around your mission. Schedule, food, activities, locations.
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Integrate your mission
Your curriculum, values, and voice come along. We support, we don't lead.
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Get support.
Coaching, vehicles, drivers, gear, food, insurance. Show up with your group and we will take care of the rest.
Sharing Stories
When you empower community leaders to run programming based on their own goals, you get programs that are more welcoming, inclusive, and better attended. Historically, access to travel, outdoor, and residential experiential education has been limited - look what happens when we make it accessible.
Road Trip | Milwaukee
Camp + Campus
A week-long college road trip for these Milwaukee youth empowered them to explore colleges of all kinds – big, small, public, private, and more.
Expedition Style | Detroit
Future Foresters
Detroit High Schools introduced students to forestry careers through a week long intensive, helping them explore AI-resilient careers.
Residential | Oregon
College Camp
Faculty were able to use our programs to run their own residential camps, boosting enrollment at the school, while preparing students for college and careers.
Basecamp | Milwaukee
Reconciliation
A summer of camp-style programming out of a bus helped this Milwaukee non-profit address issues of segregation and youth leadership.