Gain Your Outside Perspective

This has been a BIG WEEK for us at Outside Perspectives and included a bonus tour of the Bronx Zoo following a meeting with the Future Leaders staff team in NY! We are thrilled to have an OFFICIAL PARTNERSHIP with the Wildlife Conservation Society's Future Leaders Program and several dates confirmed on the calendar. We will lead a day of games, initiatives, and hiking within Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx in a couple of weeks to begin preparing the group for their expedition later this summer in July. [caption id="attachment_122" align="aligncenter" width="656"] Executive Director Nicky Wood on a Bronx Zoo tour with Future Leaders Program Coordinator Ferney Giraldo.[/caption] Equally as exciting to us is our newly  SOLIDIFIED PARTNERSHIP with Waterbury Youth Service Bureau (YSB) ! We have been in conversation with this hardworking organization for several months now and can't wait to start working with several of their programs, including thei...

Yesterday Outside Perspective's co-founders Shannon Zich and Nicky Wood, traveled to the Bronx Zoo for a special visit with an inspiring group of young people known as Future Leaders. We want to thank Ferney Geraldo and Sa’Dia Chance, Program Coordinator and Program Assistant of Future Leaders, for the opportunity to present and for their warm welcome. The Future Leaders Program is a youth and workforce development program created by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), an international non-profit organization whose mission is to save wildlife and wild lands through science, global conservation, education and the management of the world’s largest system of urban wildlife parks, led by the flagship Bronx Zoo. The Future Leaders Program services teens and young adults ages 16-24. The program helps participants to develop their sense of social responsibility, learn critical life skills for success in their academic and/or employment pursuits, and gain tools to become effective lea...

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Oct 9-12th 2015 Determined to get out before it got too cold, a small group of young men from different parts of Connecticut and Massachusetts joined three instructors on a short expedition in Mt. Washington State Forest in South Western Massachusetts. We enjoyed views of the Connecticut and Massachusetts Berkshires and the New York Catskills. We watched the sunrise on Alander Mountain and sat by the rushing waters of the beautiful Bish Bash Falls. Wonderful weather and great people made for a very successful course. Check out our  Facebook Post  for more details and cool photos. Also check out our short  Youtube Video   to get a better sense of what happened out there. Here's what some participants had to say about their experience. PETER What do you like about backpacking and being outdoors? "I personally feel like I was born to be outdoors, it’s just where my heart’s at. Every time I’m outdoors it feels like it’s meant to be…this is natural, this is what it’s supposed to be...