DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND BELONGING PROGRAMMING + SCHOLARSHIPS

As a company, Desert Mountain Medicine recognizes the deep inequities, systemic marginalization, and lack of representation within the wilderness medicine and outdoor industries. We believe the foundational skills of excellent medical care – empathy, compassion, respect, self-awareness, ethical conduct, and leadership – also form the foundation for creating a better world. As a leader in wilderness medicine education, we have the opportunity and privilege to take action to strengthen equitable access, increase representation, and foster belonging within our classrooms and industry-wide. Find information below about our diversity, equity, and belonging programming, and read about DMM’s internal actions to improve our company and world here.

DMM + Lake County Community Fund

Desert Mountain Medicine is fiscally sponsored by Lake County Community Fund to increase access to belonging programming and ensure every donation is tax deductible. Learn about our initiatives below, and please consider supporting diversity, equity, and belonging in wilderness medicine education by making a donation here.

Please add a note in the notes section of your donation if you would like your gift to go to a specific program. 

Dollars are not the only way to make an impact! Reach out to [email protected] to explore meaningful ways to make a non-monetary contribution and join the work. 

DMM’s commitments to our contributors: 

• Transparency – donors receive an annual financial report detailing how funds were spent and the financial standing of funded programming
• Ethic – The mission, programming information, and organizational capacity is shared with the donor so an informed decision can be made concerning a donation’s intended purpose and impact. If DMM believes it cannot reasonably use the donor’s contribution to make the desired impact, DMM will recommend a more appropriate organization for the donor to make an impact with.
• Communication – donors can expect a professional relationship with the staff overseeing donated funds based on honesty, transparency, respect, and a shared focus on making a specific impact. Donors receive confirmation that their funds were used for the express purposes intended by the donor.
• Privacy & recognition – Donors can expect their information to remain confidential to the extent provided by law, and may request anonymity or recognition in alignment with their comfort. Donors can expect to be publicly acknowledged and appropriately celebrated, unless other requests are made, for their contribution, but should understand and accept that we first celebrate and elevate the communities being served.