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2024 Annual Report
2024 was a significant year for the Great Outdoors Foundation and its partners. To celebrate, we've captured some of the year's highlights [...]
RELEASE: Conservation Acceleration Fund Leverages $28 Million Via 2024 Projects
DES MOINES, IA (Apr. 7, 2025) – The Great Outdoors Foundation (GOF) is pleased to announce that the Conservation Acceleration Fund (CAF), [...]
MidAmerican Energy Company Regional Fund Grantee Profile: City of Windsor Heights
On February 17, the Great Outdoors Foundation announced that the City of Windsor Heights was selected as a grantee of the MidAmerican Energy Company Regional Fund, [...]
RELEASE: MidAmerican Energy Regional Fund Grant Awarded to City of Windsor Heights
DES MOINES, IA (Feb. 17, 2025) – The Great Outdoors Foundation is pleased to announce that the MidAmerican Energy Regional Fund, a $5 [...]
5 Des Moines Projects Receive Best Development Awards
Five Des Moines projects received a 2024 Best Development Award from 1000 Friends of Iowa during a ceremony at the Capitol this [...]
KJAN: 2025 Best Development Award Winners Announced
1000 Friends of Iowa has announced the winners of the 2024 Best Development Awards during a ceremony. The announcement took place this [...]
Gazette: Conservation Advocates Find ‘Radical Collaboration’ Gets Things Done
These examples of “radical collaboration” have led The Great Outdoors Foundation to launch an online directory that allows farmers and landowners to [...]
Celebrating 30 Years of the Great Outdoors Foundation
This piece originally ran in the January/February issue of dsm Magazine. Q: What is your anniversary or milestone? A: This year, [...]
Gazette: Heartland Co-Op, CoBank Partner on a Five-Year Sustainability-Linked Loan
In addition to consulting with the Environmental Defense Fund, the sustainability-linked loan was also supported by the Great Outdoors Foundation. The Great [...]
2024 Year in Review
The past year has yielded a number of successes for the Great Outdoors Foundation as we advance conservation through innovation, collaboration, [...]
The True Impact of Conservation
As a fundraising organization, it’s easy to assess our value in terms of dollars and cents, which of course, are vital to [...]
A Recap of the 2024 Wild Prairie Showdown
The Great Outdoors Foundation and ICON Water Trails partnered again to hold the fourth annual Wild Prairie Showdown. With four esteemed individuals [...]
