Updates & Stories

While major fires around the country dominate headlines, Conservation Corps crews have been busy with fires close to home. A dry fall and nearly snowless… Read More

The Donaldson Foundation, ERM Foundation and Carlson Family Foundation have joined a host of Youth Outdoors partners to expand Conservation Corps Minnesota’s successful urban afterschool… Read More

Our 2011 annual report is hot off the press! As our Corps Update audience, you get the first peek. Read it online now. If you’d… Read More

On Wednesday, April 25, Youth Outdoors (YO) was awarded a Youth Leadership Award by the City of Saint Paul. Mayor Chris Coleman honored 10 businesses,… Read More

Though our unseasonably warm spring had cooled, Saturday, April 14 turned out to be a beautiful day for cleaning up the City of Saint Paul. Youth Outdoors crews led volunteer registration at four kickoff celebrations, which drew 1,100 volunteers. Read More

Hundreds of youth from across the globe gathered at the Minneapolis Convention Center April 11-14 for the annual National Service-Learning Conference, hosted by the National Youth Leadership Council. Every year the Council plants trees in the city where they meet to commemorate the loss of participants and advocates in youth leadership work. Read More

Our Northeast Minnesota crew, based in Tower, volunteered to clean up accumulated debris on the Wellstone Memorial Trail in the Virginia/Eveleth area on March 26. Read More

Sponsor a participant in our Summer Youth Corps and change the life of a young person. A $1,000 sponsorship will fund a teenager’s four-week experience… Read More

It might have been the chainsaw that lured Hollis Emery to northeast Minnesota to serve as a crew leader in 2010. The previous year, she had left a California law firm job to serve EarthCorps in Seattle and was hooked on the Corps experience. Read More

We are forming a committee to help us plan our alumni association. We need your ideas! Please join us to brainstorm ideas and make plans… Read More