Clubs team with salmon council for fundraising

Journal Date: June 6th, 2009 | Filed Under: News

By John Holyoke
BDN Staff
About 10 months ago, while he and officials from other stakeholder groups celebrated a fundraising milestone, Andrew Goode explained the strategies that had worked so well over the previous five years would have to be supplemented with another approach.

Twenty-five million dollars had been raised by supporters of the Penobscot River Restoration Project. Another $25 million was needed.

“The first part of the private fundraising had to do with just major donors,” the vice president of U.S. operations for the Atlantic Salmon Federation said at an August press event and celebration. “That $10 million [in private donations] was a small number of large gifts. I think in this second phase of this project, it’s going to have to be a large number of small gifts. It is going to be a different approach.”

Welcome to phase two. read more…………

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