My Nonprofit Reviews

I first encountered Missouri River Relief as a freshman in college on a college over night clean up. This experience had a major impact on the rest of my time in Missouri as well as my long term priorities and relationships with rivers.

We arrived at the site we were to launch from and it was much too muddy on the ramps to get the boats launched, the MRR team immediately adapted and gave the volunteers direction to clean up the site we were at by foot and they went to launch the boats upstream and meet us so we could continue with the clean up with boat access. Within an hour or two we had cleaned up the original launch site majorly and were onto other spots. My boat captain in particular was overly joyed by the excitement coming from a bunch of college kids to get dirty in love of environmentalism and rivers. He suggested maybe we could skip lunch and get one more spot, had us close our eyes to vote and every single person voted for that option. Coming from a very environmentally focused family this experience was the first time I felt understood and excited to be around college students. This had a major impact on the relationships I fostered for the rest of my time in school. The MRR team is quick to adapt and are genuinely so stoked on their mission. It is so warm to be in their presence.


I feel immense gratitude for this experience and the kind folks at MRR. To this day I am sure that my relationships with rivers were impacted positively by MRR!