Our Mission

To provide support services that promote, restore, and celebrate the health and well-being of the Grand Canyon river guiding community

Our Vision

We envision a Grand Canyon guiding community where:

• Guides have a stable mental, physical, and financial foundation 

• Both present and past guides have a functional, fulfilling, and successful life

• Career advancement and transition is supported

• Guiding is recognized as a legitimate and valuable profession

• Guides have a social safety net of services to assist them as issues arise

• Support, inclusion, and respect are common practice

• Community members promote integrity

• All people, indigenous and non-native, are passionately active and welcomed as a part of the community

• Whale Foundation services are widely known and accessed

Core Values

Integrity - This include the characteristics of trustworthiness, confidentiality, accountability, and reliability. 

Service - This includes the ideas of collective needs, community, and stewardship.

Collaboration - This includes the acts of growth, empathy, and openness.

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