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Nau’s Grant for Change

Nau's Grant for Change

Click for our project

Update: We just barely missed this by 0.1% !! Thanks for all of your votes!

I’ve been watching the sustainable clothing company Nau ever since they first sent one of their employees up to Seattle for a story on the female parkour scene way back in v1 days. I was impressed with their dedication to giving back they built into every faucet of the company and the amount of great local giving they did (especially back in the beginning of their partners for change program).

So when I noticed them launching their first community grant I enthusiastically jumped in feet first and have already hit the ground running so to speak. Through the awesome help of the American Parkour community we’re already almost at the 100 vote minimum mark before this post is finished! APK has been so fast to action and giving in fact that we’re finalizing a potentially fantastic relationship with them shortly (more on that later).

We need your vote!

If we win we’ll receive $10,000 to put towards our own training center for our academy classes and Jump Washington outreach program, and all we need to be considered is a place in the publicly voted top 5.

There’s 293 other groups in the running and voting ends August 31st so please visit the link below and give us a high rating (5 stars)! More info on helping spread this campaign and win the grant in our resource doc.

http://www.nau.com/collective/grant-for-change/tyson-cecka-1026.html

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Flickr Parkour Visions Jam

Back in June we helped bring 8 of the coolest Seattle photographers together for a quick photoshoot at Gasworks Park of some of our instructors and younger students.

The idea was that any photos coming out of it would be Creative Commons licensed and cool for noncommercial use by the nonprofit. That way we get some awesome photos to use on the website and in printed materials (with attribution of course), and they get to shoot with some awesome traceurs and build their portfolio.

Well the first Flickr jam went great and you can see the results below or in our Flickr group at flickr.com/groups/parkourvisions

Featured photographers:
Paula: www.flickr.com/photos/gapey
Mark: www.flickr.com/photos/maginashun
Terence: www.flickr.com/photos/ttstam
Rachel: www.flickr.com/photos/packet
Brian: www.flickr.com/photos/bh88keys
Rick: www.flickr.com/photos/rickr_m
Paul: www.flickr.com/photos/swortz
Dave M: www.flickr.com/photos/davemcom