TAKE ACTION
Many films and conversations featured at the festival explore stories of adventure, nature, change, connection and community. We encourage audiences to find their own path in giving back and being sustainable and provide ways they can support and get involved with some of the causes in the films. Here are a few.
Afghan Peaks
Afghan Peaks Charitable Trust was created to drive a strategy for Afghanistan's mountains that can benefit the people of Afghanistan by developing their mountain skills and preserving the natural environment for generations to come.
A New Earth Project
A New Earth Project is a robust movement to raise awareness of the scale of plastic pollution in waterways. The initiative brings together the voices of ocean and water advocacy groups with organizations in the supply chain equipped to bring solutions to the table to remediate today's problems. With a team built by founder Wes Carter, president of Atlantic Packaging, one of North America's largest privately held packaging companies, the initiative is supported by veterans from the surf, outdoor, film, and packaging industries.
Chill Foundation
Chill inspires young people through boardsports and builds a more equitable outdoor community. The programs recognize the inherent strength and potential present in each of the participants. Through boardsports, Chill Foundation teaches new skills, builds confidence, and inspires a lifelong love for boardsports.
Coast Film Foundation
The Coast Film Foundation is a 501 C3 organization based in Laguna Beach, CA formed in 2022. The organization promotes films and film-related activities year-round and produces the annual Coast Film & Music Festival, a showcase of non-fiction adventure films by top filmmakers from around the world.
High Fives Foundation
High Fives Foundation is a Lake Tahoe-based, national 501 non-profit organization. Located in Truckee, California, the foundation provides grants for rehabilitation support to athletes with life-altering injuries as a result of mountain sports. It also promotes awareness of injury prevention.
Kiss the Ground
Over the past 10 years, Kiss the Ground, a 501(c)(3) Nonprofit, has become a leading voice in raising awareness for regeneration through storytelling, education, and advocacy. They believe regenerative agriculture is a viable solution to combat the climate, water, and health crisis.
Laguna Canyon Foundation
Laguna Canyon Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit created to reach beyond the usual grassroots level for regional open space preservation in Laguna Canyon. Their mission - to preserve, protect, enhance and promote the 22,000-acre South Coast Wilderness - brings together state, county and city landowners and managers to work in partnership on behalf of wilderness in our increasingly urban county.
Leave No Trace
Leave No Trace pioneers science and provides proven, research-based solutions for the protection of the natural world. With pioneering science, hands-on training, and simple guidelines, Leave No Trace helps you explore the outdoors sustainably every time you get outside.
1% for the Planet
1% for the Planet is a global movement inspiring businesses to support environmental solutions through annual memberships and everyday actions. We advise on giving strategies, we certify donations and we amplify the impact of our network.
Outrigger Duke Kahanamoku Foundation
The Outrigger Duke Kahanamoku Foundation's mission is to financially support the development of individuals and organizations that perpetuate the spirit and legacy of Duke Kahanamoku. ODKF provides support to Hawaii students, teams, and events that sustain the spirit of Duke Kahanamoku. We focus on the impacts made through the sports Duke played and loved: Swimming, Surfing, Canoe Paddling, Kayaking, Diving, Water Polo, Sailing, and Volleyball.
Pasang Lhamu Foundation
The Pasang Lhamu Sherpa Foundation, which has been supporting the health and education of women and children in the highlands, has provided scholarships for higher education. The foundation was established in 1993 in memory of Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, the first Nepali woman to climb the highest peak, Mount Everest.
Project O
Project O is a non-profit, 501c3 organization dedicated to restoring, protecting and sustaining the ocean and the marine life in it. The Blue City Network is a free certification system that recognizes cities and counties that demonstrate their communities’ commitment to healthy waterways and oceans.
Protect Our Winters
POW helps passionate outdoor people protect the places we live and lifestyles we love from climate change. Protect Our Winters is a community of athletes, scientists, creatives, and business leaders advancing non-partisan policies that protect our world today and for future generations.
SeaTrees
SeaTrees directly supports communities and scientists who protect and regenerate blue carbon coastal ecosystems. This includes planting mangrove trees, restoring kelp forests, coral reefs, seagrass meadows, and conserving coastal watersheds.
Surfing Heritage & Culture Center
Surfing Heritage & Culture Center exists at the intersection of surfing’s past, present and future. Their mission is to preserve, promote and present surfing’s heritage and cultural impact.
Surfrider Foundation
The Surfrider Foundation is dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of the world’s ocean, waves, and beaches, for all people, through a powerful activist network.
Tompkins Conservation
We have a rewilding approach to conservation—everything we do can be measured in land and sea protected, wildlife populations recovered, and neighboring communities prospering as a result of conservation. All of this positive work in the world has been accomplished with partners.
Wings for Life
Wings for Life is a not-for-profit spinal cord research foundation with the single mission to find the cure for spinal cord injury. Since 2004, Wings for Life has funded life-changing research projects and clinical trials around the globe.