The Outdoor Foundation's Major Giving Program

Your major gift has never been needed more. The hunting community now faces ones of its biggest challenges since sportsmen came together in the early 1900s to lay the groundwork for restoring wildlife populations. Today, while many wildlife populations are abundant, hunters themselves are becoming endangered as they struggle to find places to hunt and time to enjoy it. At the same time, growing numbers of target shooters need help finding training, ranges and more information about their sport.

To keep our outdoor traditions alive for generations to come, the Outdoor Foundation, a nonprofit 501 (c) (3), was launched in January 2009. The Foundation's mission is dedicated to growing the shooting sports, providing safety training, increasing access for hunters and target shooters, and supporting conservation efforts.

The Outdoor Foundation has already made great strides in achieving this ambitious mission.

Because safety is essential to our cause, the Foundation has created an online curriculum for volunteer hunter safety instructors. Efforts to produce online student training are also underway. In addition, the partnership produced an innovative set of non-functioning training guns, so that volunteer hunter education instructors can provide safe, hands-on training to a million new hunters over the next decade.

In a conservation partnership with Ducks Unlimited, the Outdoor Foundation has committed to preserving key duck-breeding grounds in the Prairie Pothole regions of North and South Dakota by donating to the Rescue the Duck Factory campaign.

By teaming up with National Forest Foundation, the Outdoor Foundation is helping to provide access for millions of hunters, anglers and other outdoor enthusiasts by supporting their efforts to restore habitats throughout our 193-million-acre National Forest System.

An NRA partnership has allowed the Outdoor Foundation to reach out to those who are passionate about protecting our freedoms.  The Foundation is also striving to involve our nation’s youth in the outdoors. By working with local Boy Scout Councils and the National Archery in the Schools Program, the Foundation will help introduce more than 2 million young people every year to archery and target shooting.

There’s so much more work to do and it will require your help. A donation to the Outdoor Foundation will help preserve this outdoor lifestyle we all care so deeply about.

Help realize the vision of the Outdoor Foundation, contact us to make a major gift today.