Grassroots Conservation Campaign Goals
How you can be a part of Forever?
In a campaign goal of $25 million, we are targeting $8.5 million for Habitat Projects and $8.5 million for Strategic Land Acquisitions, further leveraging and multiplying a generation of work already done by our chapters.
Additionally, we intend to raise $3.625 million directed to the Leopold Education Project; $2.625 million will support youth programs such as Ringnecks, Whistlers and hunter safety; and $750 thousand will be used to advance the professional development of our staff. Youth are the future. Knowledge is power.
Finally, we seek $1 million for such national programs as the Legislative Action Fund, The Pheasants Forever Journal, The Quail Forever Magazine, Information Technology and membership development and chapter support, including volunteer training and education. Funds will be allocated to each program on the basis of need, supporting rapidly changing demands of a broad range of mission-focused efforts. We will stand where we are needed, we will support the work that needs to be done.
You can be directly responsible for a young person witnessing a pheasant burst into the sky, learn one-on-one how to operate a firearm responsibly, smell sweet natural wetlands, or feel prairie grass against their legs at dawn. These are experiences and lessons that will last a lifetime – and be passed down through generations. It is the youth of today who will fight for the cause of conservation tomorrow. We must create opportunities for them, teach them a deeply-held land ethic, and lead them to see the value in preserving the land today if we are to ensure its survival tomorrow. The land and traditions it supports will not survive without us, without our work.
There are many ways you can help. You may choose an outright donation of money, stock or land; a planned gift or bequest of money, stock or land; or you can refer our organization to both corporate and private foundations or any individuals who share our values. There are legions who have given of their time, energy and passion; it is a smaller number who can provide us with fi nancial resources. And yet both accomplish the same goal. It is imperative that we work together to rescue and restore damaged and lost land as well as conserve and preserve pristine open space. Shoulder to shoulder. Grassroots conservation. A legacy forever.