White Rocks Fundraising a Sucess!

Three Appalachian Trail maintaining clubs recently participated in a friendly competition to raise money for the South Mountain Partnership. This Partnership is a cooperative effort by several conservation organizations to preserve from development land along South Mountain in Southcentral Pennsylvania. Both the Appalachian Trail and the White Rocks Trail pass near the land that the parnership seeks to preserve. The money raised will be used for expenditures that need to occur before certain proposed government grants will become available. In addition, the fundraising effort showed governmental officials and political leaders how important this acquisition is to their constituents in the conservation community.

The competition was
(1) Most money raised per member, and
(2) Highest percentage of members who contributed. SATC sent letters to 360 of its members, MCM 446 and CVATC 149.

As stakes for the competition, it was agreed that the third place Club would have two of its members work on the winner’s section for a day, and the second place Club will have one of its members work on the winner’s section for a day.

Here are the final results.

CLUB PERCENTAGE OF MEMBERS CONTRIBUTING

MONEY PER MEMBER
CVATC 47/149 =.3154 $4,380/149 =$29.40
SATC 77/360 = .2139 $6,058/360 = $16.83
MCM 75/446 = .1682 $3,167/446 = $7.10

An additional 18 people made contributions totalling $2835 and did not designate one of the Clubs for credit. That makes a grand total of $16,440 raised as of late September, 2009. Of course, the real winners are the trail community and the South Mountain project. Thanks to each club member who contributed to this important project!!