Philanthropy
Black Diamond CEO Peter Metcalf has a long history of political advocacy for both the outdoor industry and the public lands of Utah, and has often united outdoor companies against policies that threaten public lands and outdoor recreation. In 2003, Metcalf, a board member of the Outdoor Industry Association, threatened to move the Outdoor Retailer trade show (which brings $24 million in revenue to Utah) out of Salt Lake City after million acres of Utah land were stripped of wilderness protection. Metcalf and other outdoor companies have also been vocal in opposition to oil and gas drilling in Desolation Canyon, Utah, and other threats to public lands. In 2012, Metcalf resigned from the Utah Ski and Snowboard Working Group in opposition to proposed legislation that would transfer ownership of public lands from the federal government to the state of Utah.
Black Diamond also supports many non-profit organizations (with money, gear, employee time, etc.), including:
The Access Fund
American Alpine Club
The Conservation Alliance
Leave No Trace
Outdoor Industry Foundation
The Nature Conservancy
Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA)
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Famous quotes containing the word philanthropy:
“I shall not be forward to think him mistaken in his method who quickest succeeds to liberate the slave. I speak for the slave when I say that I prefer the philanthropy of Captain Brown to that philanthropy which neither shoots me nor liberates me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Almost every man we meet requires some civility,—requires to be humored; he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“... the hey-day of a woman’s life is on the shady side of fifty, when the vital forces heretofore expended in other ways are garnered in the brain, when their thoughts and sentiments flow out in broader channels, when philanthropy takes the place of family selfishness, and when from the depths of poverty and suffering the wail of humanity grows as pathetic to their ears as once was the cry of their own children.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)