Built by people who believe showing up still matters.
Outpost Community Foundation began with a simple belief: meaningful work starts by getting close enough to listen.
We build through presence, trust, local leadership, and relationships strong enough to carry the work forward.
Why Outpost Exists
We’re building something that lasts.
Outpost was created to help strengthen communities through education, safe shelter, health, wellbeing, and the resources people need to grow on their own terms.
Our first chapter began in Cambodia—but our responsibility extends far beyond completing one project.
We are building a model rooted in long-term relationships, locally guided decisions, transparent action, and the understanding that sustainable progress cannot be imposed from a distance.
Our role is not to become the center of someone else’s story.
Our role is to listen, contribute what we can, document the work responsibly, and keep showing up.
OUR MISSION
Shared journeys. Lasting foundations.
Our mission is to create lasting foundations through shared journeys—built with care, grounded in presence, and carried forward with purpose.
We focus our work across three connected areas:
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Supporting stronger learning environments, practical educational resources, literacy access, and opportunities for students and teachers to grow.
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Helping create safe, functional spaces through skilled collaboration, local priorities, and work designed to remain useful long after we leave.
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Supporting sanitation, dignity, community health, safety, and the everyday conditions people need to live and learn well.
The Outpost Way
Five principles guide every decision.
Foundations First
We prioritize work that strengthens what already exists and creates a base for long-term progress.
Journey With Intention
Travel is not the mission. It is the path that brings people closer to the communities, context, and relationships behind the work.
Presence Over Performance
We care more about being useful than appearing impressive.
Respect Beyond Borders
Local knowledge, leadership, culture, and consent shape how every project is approached and represented.
Growth That Gives Back
As Outpost grows, the communities and relationships at the center of the work must grow stronger with it.
Meet the Team
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Lachlan Quintana
Founder, President & Executive Director
Lachlan founded Outpost around the belief that meaningful change begins with proximity—not assumptions, performance, or charity delivered from a distance.
As a designer, photographer, and creative director, his career has centered on shaping stories, building visual systems, and helping people understand the purpose behind a project. Through Outpost, that experience supports the organization’s strategy, partnerships, project development, ethical storytelling, and long-term direction.
Lachlan leads Outpost with a simple expectation: listen first, build responsibly, and never make the organization more important than the people it exists to support.
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Phally Yan
Co-Founder, Executive Project Director & Cambodia Cultural Director
Based in Cambodia, Phally provides the local leadership, cultural knowledge, and trusted relationships that make Outpost’s work possible.
He guides project development, school communication, vendor relationships, site visits, logistics, and long-term planning within Cambodia. More importantly, Phally helps ensure that projects begin with what local communities actually identify as useful—not what an outside organization assumes they need.
His leadership keeps Outpost connected to the people, culture, and realities behind every Cambodia initiative.
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Maighdeline Gordon
Chief Marketing & Communications Officer
Maighdeline helps translate Outpost’s work into communication that can build awareness, trust, and meaningful participation.
Her role includes marketing strategy, audience engagement, digital growth, fundraising communications, partnerships, and strengthening Outpost’s public presence. She helps ensure that the organization’s message remains clear, respectful, and capable of moving people from passive interest toward genuine involvement.
The goal is not simply to make Outpost louder. It is to make the mission easier to understand, support, and carry forward.
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Erick Herrera
Chief Development & Risk Officer
Erick helps Outpost grow without losing sight of the responsibility that comes with operating across borders.
His work covers travel safety, risk planning, participant preparation, data protection, background-check processes, grant compliance, and the development of adaptable operational resources.
Erick’s role is to ask the questions that responsible organizations must answer before entering another community: Are people prepared? Is information protected? Have the risks been taken seriously? Can the work be completed safely and ethically?
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Teagan Quintana
Secretary & Grants Lead
Teagan supports Outpost’s governance, grant development, documentation, and administrative accountability.
She researches funding opportunities, develops grant strategy, maintains meeting records, tracks assignments, and helps keep organizational decisions documented and actionable.
Her work strengthens the structure behind the mission—helping Outpost pursue new resources while remaining organized, compliant, and accountable to its commitments.
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Sarah Becker
Treasurer & Financial Oversight Lead
Sarah oversees the financial systems that allow Outpost to plan responsibly and report honestly.
She leads budgeting, forecasting, financial documentation, donor reporting, and transparency initiatives across the organization. Her oversight helps ensure that project ambitions remain grounded in approved budgets and that funds can be clearly traced to the work they support.
Sarah protects one of Outpost’s most important relationships: the trust between the organization, its donors, and the communities it serves.
Communities should help determine what gets built.
Outpost’s Cambodia projects are shaped through direct communication with local leaders, educators, vendors, and community members.
That structure matters.
It helps prevent resources from being wasted on assumptions. It protects cultural context. It makes logistics more responsible. And it creates a clearer path for projects to remain useful after the visiting team returns home.
We do not consider local involvement an extra layer of approval.
It is where the work begins.
What We Are Building Toward
The first project proved the idea. Now we build the system.
Our inaugural Cambodia project helped renew the exterior of a school library and provide books, shelves, sanitation supplies, and a new laptop for the school community.
But Outpost was never meant to become a collection of disconnected service trips.
We are building toward:
Long-term partnerships with schools and community leaders
Locally guided education, shelter, and wellbeing projects
Clear financial and project reporting
Stronger donor and business partnerships
Responsible opportunities for people to participate
A repeatable model that can eventually support communities beyond Cambodia
The goal is not rapid expansion for its own sake.
The goal is to grow without losing the presence, trust, and accountability that made the work matter in the first place.
The work is already moving.
See what has been built, meet the communities guiding what comes next, and choose how you want to be part of the journey.