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BUSINESS RECORD: Local competitors achieve fundraising record at Wild Prairie Showdown
October 24, 2025The Great Outdoors Foundation and ICON Water Trails announced the fifth annual Wild Prairie Showdown raised nearly $190,000 to support conservation and [...]
RELEASE: Local Competitors Achieve Record Fundraising at Wild Prairie Showdown
October 21, 2025DES MOINES, IA (Oct. 21, 2025) – The Great Outdoors Foundation and ICON Water Trails are pleased to announce that the Wild [...]
Recapping the 2025 Wild Prairie Showdown
October 20, 2025The Great Outdoors Foundation and ICON Water Trails partnered again to host the fifth annual Wild Prairie Showdown. This year, Team GOF [...]
RELEASE: Great Outdoors Foundation Announces Inaugural Water Quality Summit
October 17, 2025Watershed26 to take cross-sector approach at addressing water quality. DES MOINES, IA (Oct. 17, 2025) – The Great Outdoors Foundation (GOF) announced [...]
Business Record: Local leaders honored for conservation and recreation efforts
October 8, 2025The Great Outdoors Foundation and ICON Water Trails have announced the recipients of their 2025 annual awards recognizing leadership in conservation and [...]
RELEASE: Local Leaders Celebrated with Creative Conservationist, Waveshaper Awards
October 6, 2025Honors to be presented by Great Outdoors Foundation, ICON Water Trails at annual event. DES MOINES, IA (Oct. 6, 2025) – [...]
Q&A with Jonny “Mountain Man” Kallen, Wild Prairie Showdown Competitor
September 16, 2025The Wild Prairie Showdown is back. Team Great Outdoors Foundation and Team ICON Water Trails are once again competing in a peer-to-peer [...]
Business Record: Great Outdoors Foundation and ICON Water Trails launch annual fundraising campaign
August 22, 2025The Great Outdoors Foundation and ICON Water Trails has launched the fifth annual Wild Prairie Showdown, an eight-week peer-to-peer campaign to raise [...]
RELEASE: Local Competitors Launch Annual Wild Prairie Showdown Campaign
August 21, 2025DES MOINES, IA (Aug. 21, 2025) – The Great Outdoors Foundation and ICON Water Trails are pleased to announce the launch of [...]
National Water Quality Month — Improving Our Water
August 12, 2025August is National Water Quality Month. Front of mind for many recently, water quality is of concern now more than ever before. [...]
Business Record: How ICON Water Trails, Great Outdoors Foundation collaborate to support recreation while tackling water quality issues
August 11, 2025Cleaner waterways, updated recreational opportunities and a boost to economic development are a few of the outcomes of a partnership between two [...]
Business Record innovationIOWA: Meet a Nonprofit That Wants to Run Like a Startup
July 31, 2025Hannah Inman, CEO of the Great Outdoors Foundation, has some advice for anyone who wants to work in fundraising. Spend time in sales. Prior [...]
