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The OSI Community Podcast

Connecting Community, Sport, and the Outdoors

Join us each month us as we explore topics that help you make outdoor sport a bigger part of your life and your community through special guest interviews and roundtable discussions with members of the OSI Community. Whether you’re just getting started exploring the outdoors, actively sharing outdoor sport with others, or implementing community-wide efforts, you’ll find valuable takeaways from the conversations and resources shared. Let us know what issues you are facing in developing a thriving outdoor community where you live.

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011 OSI Community Podcast- Making Gear More Accessible...Three Examples Working in Three Communities

Apr 1, 2021

How do we make gear more accessible?

In this month’s OSI Community Interview we are sitting down with a panel of guests to talk about the different strategies they are employing to make gear more accessible across their communities. 

Join us as we talk with Matt DeLaney, director of the Millinocket Memorial Library and creator of the Katahdin Gear Library, Alicia Heyburn, director of Teens to Trails and partner in the growing Maine Gear Share project, and Brian Danz of the Portland Gear Hub to learn more about their efforts, their challenges, and what they’ve been learning along the way that can help others.

Join us as we discuss questions such as… 

  • What strategies have you found work best in making outdoor equipment more accessible?
  • What are the unique challenges you’re trying to address in your community, and how are you trying to solve them?
  • What pitfalls and obstacles you’ve faced that might not be obvious?
  • What advice would you give to others that are trying to make equipment available in their communities?

Resources and Links discussed during the episode.

Bicycle Coalition of Maine

QBP webinars

Insurance for Outdoor Sport Organizations

Rentle Gear Management App.

Ikeono

Outside Business Journal Article-"Great Gear for All"

Teens to Trails Donation Link

Marie Kondo 

Notable Quote...

"The more you know, the less you need"- Yvon Chouinard

The Outdoor Sport Institute & The OSI Community

Our mission is to help people in rural places make human-powered outdoor sports an integral part of their lives and communities. We are a 501c3 non-profit organization.

The OSI Community is a peer-driven network of people who are -

  • Pursuing outdoor sports personally
  • Teaching and mentoring others outdoors
  • Building capacity for outdoor sports in their community

Through the OSI Community, members can access online and in-person instruction, a growing online resource library, and a network of peers to connect with and share ideas.

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