The Pennsylvania Parks and Forests Foundation invites you to join the Great Pennsylvania Outdoor Challenge (GPOC)
If you have postponed some of your favorite outdoor activites, wait no longer. We have the incentive for you!
The GPOC offers a series of personal challenges that supporters of parks and forests set to raise funds for parks, forests, friends groups and the Foundation.
There are three ways to participate:
- Decide on a challenge and register for a $20 donation
- Decide on a challenge, register for a $20 donation, then recruit others to support you in your fundraising goal by creating your own Online Fundraising Page.
- Donate to the Pennsylvania Parks and Forests Foundation by clicking the DONATE button to the right
Click the Get Started button to register your challenge and/or to create your personal webpage and send emails to friends, family, colleagues and others who might help you reach your goal!
All participants receive a t-shirt and are eligible for great prizes.
Challenges take place between September 12-30, 2008 in honor of Maurice K Goddard, the driving force behind the creation of 45 Pennsylvania parks during his 24 years as a cabinet officer for six governors of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. His vision was for a park within 25 miles of every Pennsylvania resident. Today, with 117 parks, Pennsylvanian's are easily within a half hour drive of a park.
Did you know that Pennsylvania has more that 2.1 milion acres of state forest? Combine this with the 117 parks and you have ample opportunity for outdoor recreation. Yet whle we love our parks and forests, they need our help..financially and physically through volunteer efforts. The Pennsylvania Parks and Forests Foundation links people to our state owned lands through education, recreation, and volunteerism, to help bridge the gap between state funded operations and projects that make our parks and forests better for all to enjoy.
Help create a legacy of stewardship for state parks and foresrts by joining us in the Great Pennsylvania Outoor Challenge. Share this email with family, friends and colleagues. Thank you for your support!
