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Travel is a way to reinvent ourselves—to incarnate, reclaim, or discover a piece of identity we may be hungering for or have neglected.

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Travel that wants to be good

Elevate’s founder, Dominique, ruminates on the state of travel in 2021 and where we’re headed next.

Donor Travel, Travel Tips

Integrating slow travel into donor trips

Slowing down your donor trips and tuning in to the “WHY?”

Donor Travel, Travel Tips

Nine questions to help decolonize your photography

Pictures say a lot but they don’t tell the whole story.

Travel Tips

A checklist for your first travel post vaccination

What you need to know before you get back onan airplane.

Donor Travel, Travel Tips

14 questions you need to ask about travel insurance

Protect your travel investment and gain essential peace of mind.

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Donor Travel, Travel Tips

8 essential questions you should ask your travel provider during COVID

  Traveling with a trusted and experienced provider is more important than ever in ensuring the quality and safety of…

Conservation, Donor Travel, Travel Tips

Four tangible ways to lessen your environmental impact abroad

Tourism and environmentalism are, in many ways, in direct conflict. It is no secret that global tourism has an enormous carbon footprint.

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Donor Travel, Travel Tips

Eight tips for traveling on your next philanthropic donor trip

To acknowledge how you make sense and meaning of your experiences on any philanthropic donor trip, you must carve out…

Donor Travel, Travel Tips

4 Ways to Support Positive Group Dynamics on Donor Trips

By Julia Breul, Associate Director of Social Impact Journeys In our experience working on the nuts and bolts of donor…

Lori Barra with local youth on a donor trip in Nepal

Donor Travel

A Donor’s Perspective on Site Visits and Nonprofit Travel

Interview with Lori Barra, Executive Director, Philanthropist, and Donor By Julia Breul and Dana Droller At Elevate Destinations, we are…

Donor Travel

Donor Trip Checklist: 7 Steps to Assess Whether or Not Your Site Visit is Feasible

We know your time is precious. All travel planners and fundraising staff are juggling a million initiatives and details. However,…

Donor Travel

How to Navigate Your Next Donor Trip with COVID-19 in the Picture

Travel is one of the many industries that has taken a direct hit from COVID-19. It is hard to judge…

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