2016 2nd Annual Fundraiser Auction

Thank you…Thank you…Thank you…to all the generous donors to our recently completed on-line auction and to each of you that participated in the bidding process. This was the most active auction in terms of bids and we had the widest variety and greatest number of items ever. The Auction was a total success and we thank and appreciate everyone who participated in this, one of our major fund-raisers for the year.

If you were not a high bidding winner there will again be an opportunity for you to contribute to the game fish effort by giving to the Stripers Forever Annual Appeal which will begin a bit earlier this year than before. One hundred percent of our fund raising results go directly into underwriting our efforts to make wild striped bass a game fish as Stripers Forever has no paid staff.

In a perfect world we would not be investing our volunteer efforts and hours into asking for money. Even though a large percentage of our administrative operating costs are donated, in order to accomplish our Game Fish Mission we must raise funds to help pay for a lobbyist, create educational materials and keep the game fish issue in front of decision makers.

This all takes money and thanks to both our auction donors and winning bidders we have a good start to moving our message forward in 2016.  Your contributions and participation in support of our shared goals is both appreciated and necessary if our message is to prevail in this conservation fight to save wild striped bass.