Gateway TU General Operating Budget

Each year local Trout Unlimited chapters from across the country embark on the challenge of fundraising with one common goal: to protect, reconnect, restore, and sustain cold-water fisheries across the country. As a national organization of local chapters, we have success at a grassroots level because of your local donations.

Our chapter has a monumental task of raising funds for our general operating account to ensure the successful future of our Chapter for many years to come. We have exciting events planned for TU members in the coming months.  In the past we have brought in speakers such as Arkansas fishing guide Mark Crawford; Kurt Kopola from A Tight Loop online magazine; Robert Thompson, the fly-fishing filmmaker behind The Brothers Brown and Musky Country Zero to Hero, as well as an Oregon steelhead guide and wooden drift boat master Greg Hatten.

In addition to great programs, the Gateway Chapter of Trout Unlimited has sponsored a Trout in the Classroom program to bring cold-water conservation into the classrooms. This is the only active Trout in the Classroom program in the state and was the first in more than 10 years. Currently we have 3 active TIC programs operating, and hope to add more in the future.

We also have set lofty expectations for future conservation projects on our local streams, especially the Meramec, and are working closely with the Missouri Department of Conservation to develop a plan of action for this fishery as well as helping on other fisheries. But none of these actions are free.

Our organization has a current operating budget of $3,000 per year to ensure that the above events and programs are successful. It is my goal for this fundraising campaign to not only raise enough funds to cover the operating costs of our chapter in its first year, but raise enough contributions to ensure the successful future of our chapter.

 This is why we have set an initial fundraising goal of $10,000. This goal is not possible without your help. Your charitable contribution will help ensure that events such as those listed above, as well as local cold-water conservation projects, are successful year after year.