Chill is a nonprofit learn–to-ride program for underserved youth. Every year, we take over 100 youth from each of our sites to the slopes. We provide them with everything they need to learn to ride: lift tickets, lessons, transportation, and head-to-toe gear. Snowboarding is fun and a great activity for the youth we serve, but it takes several lessons and plenty of hard work to learn. We use board sports to motivate youth to accomplish goals they never thought they could, while teaching them some of the most important lessons in life about patience, persistence, responsibility, courage, respect, and pride. With positive adult role models, engaging activities, and incredible mountain environments we build self confidence and raise self esteem.

This winter alone, Chill will work with over 2,200 youth in 14 North American cities, Sydney, Australia, and Innsbruck, Austria.

Chill serves youth facing a multitude of challenges: youth in group homes and foster care; with addictions; from the juvenile justice system; those struggling with drugs, violence, excessive anger, or depression. Many of the youth have never left their cities, and most have never been to the mountains. Chill gives these youth the chance to break boundaries and find their opportunities to be successful in life. More than that, Chill helps these youth look forward, to see beyond the circumstances of today; encouraging them to focus on positive alternatives for the future.

Jake and Donna, the founders of Burton Snowboards, started Chill in 1995 in Burlington, Vermont to bring snowboarding to youth who otherwise wouldn't have the opportunity. The program had such an immediate and profound impact that we have continued to expand into new cities, new board sports and new countries over the past 13 seasons. Since our inception, Chill has positively impacted over 12,000 underserved youth.

Chill's mission is to build the self-esteem of underserved youth through board sports.