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{{Short description|Non-profit US rock climbing advocacy group}}
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| name = The Access Fund
| image = The Access Fund Logo.jpg
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| type = [[Advocacy group]]
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| tax_id = 94-3131165 <ref name="GuideStarSource10">{{Cite web | title = GuideStar Exchange Reports for Access Fund | work = GuideStar | accessdate = 2014-03-19 | url = http://www.guidestar.org/organizations/94-3131165/access-fund.aspx }}</ref>
| location = [[Boulder, CO]]<ref name="GuideStarSource10" />
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| area_served = [[United States]]
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| revenue = $2,025,000 (2015)<ref name="Access Fund Annual Report">{{Cite web|url=http://2015annualreport.accessfund.org/?_ga=1.205859283.1104754604.1462216143|title = 2015 Access Fund Annual Report}}</ref>
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'''The Access Fund''' is a not-for-profit [[rock climbing]] advocacy group in the US. Their goals are twofold. First, keeping climbing areas open and gaining access to currently closed climbing areas. Second, they promote an ethic of responsible climbing and conservation of the climbing environment. The Access Fund was originally the access committee of the [[American Alpine Club]] and was created as the climbing community realized the need for an organization to represent climbing and climbers' rights in the US.<ref name=fields>Fields, Jenn. "[http://www.coloradodaily.com/outdoor-recreation/ci_19150595 20 years of the Access Fund: Climbing advocacy organization celebrates anniversary with Boulder events]", ''[[Colorado Daily]]'' (October 21, 2011).</ref>

The Access Fund became its own [[501(c) organization|501(c)3 organization]] in 1991. The organization is based out of [[Boulder, Colorado]] and has a small full-time staff. Additionally, the Access Fund has a nationwide network of volunteers and local climbing organizations that work locally to keep climbing areas open and preserved for future climbers.<ref name=fields />

==References==
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== External links ==
*[http://accessfund.org Web Site]
*[http://www.rockclimbing.com/Articles/Climbing_History_and_Trivia/An_Auspicious_Infancy_The_Earliest_Days_of_the_Access_Fund_945.html An Auspicious Infancy: The Earliest Days of the Access Fund]
*[https://archive.today/20130209191018/http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cmg/ California Mountaineering Group]
*[http://www.midatlanticclimbers.org Mid Atlantic Climbers, an Access Fund affiliate organization focusing on climbing areas in the Mid Atlantic Region]

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