Live Your Dream Grant
Forecasted
Live Your Dream Grant supports everyday climbers’ personally ambitious adventures, helping them develop skills, overcome obstacles, and share the power of exploration with their communities.
Funder: American Alpine Club
Due Dates (Anticipated): April 2027 (Annual application deadline)
Funding Amounts: Typically $500–$1,000 per award; funds must be used within one year
Summary: Supports personally ambitious climbing adventures that advance individual skills and share exploration with communities.
Key Information: Applicants must be active AAC members and U.S. citizens or green card holders.
Description
The American Alpine Club’s Live Your Dream Grant, powered by The North Face, supports everyday adventurers pursuing personally ambitious climbing goals. The program recognizes that meaningful exploration can happen at a local gym, crag, or backyard mountain—not only on distant expeditions. It prioritizes new experiences, overcoming obstacles, developing abilities, and sharing the power of exploration with communities.
The grant welcomes all ages, experience levels, and climbing disciplines, including bouldering, big walls, alpinism, sport climbing, peak bagging, mountain running, and ski mountaineering. Projects should represent attainable but personally difficult goals that demonstrate progression in skills and experience. Objectives with ski or snowboard mountaineering components receive partial support through the Hans Saari Memorial Fund, which emphasizes physical and mental challenges, encounters with new places and people, and exploration of other cultures.
