- Location
- Port Orchard, WA
Just a little note to catch everyone in the Sierra Chapter up with what is going on -
This year,
national did two major things to work towards chapter involvement on a local level with land use functions.
First, they enacted a 'matching funds' program, which allowed chapters to apply for, and donate up to $500 from National's bank account to a local land use cause, provided that the chapter matched that from their own funding.
http://naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=954446 <-- if this doesnt work, its because your membership has expired!
Since our last donation to Friends of Fordyce (http://www.fordycetrail.org/):
on 12/12/2007
(which completely drained our bank account), we have sold a few pieces of Swag (thanks Ben H for heading that up!) and also had a Sierra Chapter dinner at the Swamp Lake run in late august.
This year, we managed to rustle up $500 from those two 'fundraising' events, and make the matching funds. The BOD elected to use that $500 and the matching funds (another $500) to go to Friends of Fordyce again, based on the work they have been doing and their continuing need for support.
The national, BOD also enacted a program to donate $1000 to a land use organization in each of the 10 chapters that has.
The Sierra BOD decided to donate this to Friends of Eldorado National Forest - a group that supports land use and trail mantinence on all trails in Eldorado National Forest - including two very popular destonations of the Rubicon Trail, and the Barrett Lake jeep trail.
Check this thread, where FOE personally thanked us -
http://naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=984511
and their webpage here:
http://www.friendsofeldorado.com/
More information about national's involvement with land use for 2008 can be found on the main page - HERE
I just personally wanted to thank all the members of the Sierra Chapter for being involved, and for chipping in whenever you could!
THANKS!
This year,
national did two major things to work towards chapter involvement on a local level with land use functions.First, they enacted a 'matching funds' program, which allowed chapters to apply for, and donate up to $500 from National's bank account to a local land use cause, provided that the chapter matched that from their own funding.
http://naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=954446 <-- if this doesnt work, its because your membership has expired!
Since our last donation to Friends of Fordyce (http://www.fordycetrail.org/):
on 12/12/2007
(which completely drained our bank account), we have sold a few pieces of
Swag (thanks Ben H for heading that up!) and also had a Sierra Chapter dinner at the Swamp Lake run in late august.This year, we managed to rustle up $500 from those two 'fundraising' events, and make the matching funds. The BOD elected to use that $500 and the matching funds (another $500) to go to Friends of Fordyce again, based on the work they have been doing and their continuing need for support.
The national,
BOD also enacted a program to donate $1000 to a land use organization in each of the 10 chapters that has.The Sierra BOD decided to donate this to Friends of Eldorado National Forest - a group that supports land use and trail mantinence on all trails in Eldorado National Forest - including two very popular destonations of the Rubicon Trail, and the Barrett Lake jeep trail.
Check this thread, where FOE personally thanked us -
http://naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=984511
and their webpage here:
http://www.friendsofeldorado.com/
More information about
national's involvement with land use for 2008 can be found on the main page - HEREI just personally wanted to thank all the members of the Sierra Chapter for being involved, and for chipping in whenever you could!
THANKS!
