Press Releases: NATIONAL AWARD WINNING MAGAZINE, ORION, HELPS RAISE $ FOR OUTDOOR SUPPLIES
Posted on Friday, 28 August 2009 (13:49:23) CDT by admin
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For Immediate Release:
August, 28, 2009
Contact Robert E. Hughes-570-371-3523
NATIONAL AWARD WINNING MAGAZINE ORION HELPS EPCAMR RAISE $300 FOR OUTDOOR SUPPLIES TO GET KIDS IN CREEKS
Several months ago, as an added benefit to our membership to the Orion Grassroots Network (OGN), ( www.orionmagizine.org )a group that assists grassroots non-profit organizations by providing services that allow them to be engaged in ecological, economic, and cultural changes within their region had challenged EPCAMR to go out and get votes online for a small fundraising campaign to suit our needs. EPCAMR was asked to be a part of the OGN’s newest program, the Wish List, where $300 was going to be awarded to 1 of 5 member groups who had to go out and solicit the most on-line votes over a 30 day period for a project or program that they needed funds to support. EPCAMR had put out the call for help to its volunteer base for votes and was chosen by other OGN members as the top vote getter for our “Kids in Creeks” Campaign to get our youth into abandoned mine drainage streams and healthy streams for outdoor environmental education learning experiences and won by a landslide!
Erik Hoffner-OGN Coordinator, and Scott Walker, Orion Society-Marketing Director helped get set up an on-line funding drive at www.fundable.com , a website that allows people to pledge whatever they can towards a project they care about. These drives are wonderfully risk-free, no one pays anything if the goal isn’t reached in the given time frame of 26 days. Pledges came in over a 3 week period, and we met our goal. The OGN will have helped EPCAMR meet our goal of getting kids wet come this Fall when school starts and our outdoor environmental education programs ramp up.
EPCAMR decided to zero in on things that they needed to better allow their staff of two and occasional seasonal interns to reach more youth who don’t get the opportunities to explore the outdoor environment in formal school settings and have not learned much about local environmental issues plaguing their local watersheds, particularly with abandoned mine drainage in the Anthracite Coal Region of Northeastern PA.
EPCAMR needed waders for kids, bug viewers to look at and identify aquatic macro-invertebrate insects (bugs), triangular and vertebrate aquatic nets to catch fish, laminated 3-D bug scans to more closely identify aquatic insects, and a guidebook to the Ecology of Aquatic Insects. All of these supplies for just around $300! We focused on the waders for the most part.
Robert Hughes-Executive Director of EPCAMR, who created the campaign, emphasized, “We focused our campaign on getting waders for the kids to actually get them in the streams, regardless if they are orange-colored or not. They need to experience first hand, in the water, the impacts to the health of the stream ecosystem and the delicate balance it faces when pollution from abandoned mines is all around them. They don’t realize that it is entirely possible for them to be a part of the solution in the future to cleaning up their hometown watersheds, should they go into an environmental field of interest. We tell them that you can’t judge a stream by its color. You need to get in them to discover how to clean them up, if you want to be a part of the solution.” “We want to continue to support place-based environmentalism, related to nature and our environment, and ways in which we can engage our youth to participate actively and not turn their heads away from the past mining scars in our region, but to tackle them head on in the future as we are today!”
EPCAMR was featured in The Orion Magazine in February 2007 as a spotlight member organization.
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