Fishing

  • FY 2010 Grant Recipients


    The Recreational Boating & Fishing Foundation (RBFF) awarded five education grants to youth-focused boating, fishing and conservation organizations across the country in 2009.

    FY 2010 Grant Recipients:

    • FishHer– Fishing Gear for Women – educates and empowers girls who are actively involved in the Girl Scouts of the USA, and are new to the sport of fishing, boating and aquatic education. FishHer will expand its Go Fish Girls! Girl Scout Fishing Participation Patch Program, which was offered initially to the Nebraska Girl Scouts as a pilot program, to five additional states including Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and North Carolina.
    • International Game Fish Association (IGFA) – provides students and teachers with a variety of activities including fishing clinics, live touch tank demonstrations, safe boating practices, casting, rigging and knot-tying demonstrations. IGFA will firmly establish its Outreach Education Program in Florida with a goal of expanding to other states in the upcoming years.
    • Let’s Go Fishing (LGF) – enriches the lives of individuals 55 and older through free fishing and boating excursions that build relationships and create memories. LGF will introduce youth ages 5 – 18 to fishing through education programs and guided fishing tours with seniors as part of its Intergenerational Fishing program.
    • National Recreation & Park Association (NRPA) – brings resources to local communities through its park and recreation facilities across the country to ensure the future for active, healthy youth engaged in sport and the outdoors. NRPA will expand its Take Me Fishing™ Initiative that builds and sustains fishing and boating programs with a focus on conservation.
    • Trout Unlimited (TU) – works to conserve, protect and restore North America’s coldwater fisheries and their watersheds. TU will develop a pilot program that integrates a fishing curriculum, training workshops, fishing gear and field trips into its Trout in the Classroom (TIC) program in the tri-state region of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. TIC teaches students how to raise trout in classroom tanks and release them into the wild.

    Please contact RBFF Education and Conservation Manager at 703-778-5162 with any questions.

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