Jazkarta Sponsors Northwest Youth Leadership Summit

Jazkarta is pleased to have recently sponsored the North Cascades Institute‘s Northwest Youth Leadership Summit. This event is intended to empower Cascadia’s future leaders in conservation by:

• Enhancing their skills in preparation for job and college applications
• ​Connecting with regional environmental organizations and businesses to learn about jobs and internships
• Learning from like-minded peers about career options available in the conservation, outdoor and environmental fields

More than 220 students participated and are now better equipped to take action towards conservation. The Summit was free to all participants to ensure that underrepresented youth are given opportunities to get involved in the outdoor and environmental fields.

The sponsorship added another dimension to our existing partnership with North Cascades Institute. Just before the summit, we had given the non-profit’s Plone+Salesforce website a mobile refresh to make it work smoothly on phones and tablets. If we say so ourselves, the results are quite beautiful. Kudos to Neal Maher for the designs and to the Jazkarta team (Christine Winckler and David Glick) for a smooth implementation.

North Cascades Institute is not the only environmental non-profit organization that Jazkarta is working with – we created The Mountaineers‘s website and the Washington Trails Association ‘s volunteer management system. Both organizations were involved in the Summit. It was hosted at The Mountaineers’ Seattle Program Center, here is one of the students using the climbing wall.

Andrew Pringle of the Washington Trails Association led a breakout session titled “Trip Planning 101: An Introduction to Leading Backcountry Adventures”, and both organizations ran booths, talking with participants about activities, internships and employment options for young outdoor leaders.  Here’s Andrew at the WTA booth.

We feel very lucky to be helping all of these organizations further their missions.

— Photos by North Cascades Institute staff