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Boyne Resorts Makes A Challenge Grant To Local Businesses To Protect Little Traverse Bay Watershed
Boyne Resorts Makes A Challenge Grant To Local Businesses To Protect Little Traverse Bay Watershed
Boyne Resorts recently announced a $25,000 challenge grant to the Little Traverse Bay Protection and Restoration Fund within the Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation.
The Boyne Resorts gift will help fulfill a fundraising match but also acts as a challenge to area businesses that do business within the Little Traverse Bay Watershed to support this fundraising effort. Through a collaborative effort among CMS Land Company, Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council and Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians, CMS Land Company made an initial contribution of $250,000 to establish the Fund in October 2010. In making the initial contribution, CMS Land also committed to make another $250,000 contribution if the original gift is matched by the community before the end of December 2011.
“We are proud to support CMS’s long term commitment to preserving the Little Traverse Bay watershed and our challenge grant will hopefully spur other businesses to support this effort to protect one of our area’s greatest natural resources,” said Stephen Kircher, Boyne Resorts’ president of eastern operations. “My family and Boyne Resorts have a long term view on the area’s health and well-being. This contribution is another way we’re able to reinforce that commitment while effectively helping to leverage CMS’s generous gift. Every dollar a local business donates will be matched two to one up to $25,000 by this grant.” The new Fund is a field of interest fund within the Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation. Grants that will support environmental projects throughout the Little Traverse Bay Watershed will be handled by an advisory committee selected by the Community Foundation. The Little Traverse Bay Watershed Protection Plan, developed by the Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council and a consortium of other environmental organizations, can help the advisory committee identify key environmental issues of concern in our area. While our goal is to ensure we can match the CMS donation, we will strive to establish an initial fund balance of one million dollars. We are grateful to the Kircher family and Boyne Resorts for this generous gift,” said David Jones, Community Foundation executive director. “The Little Traverse Bay and its surrounding watershed are environmental gems and an economic engine for our area. I am confident other local businesses will step forward to answer the Boyne Resorts challenge,” added Jones.
Boyne Resorts recently announced a $25,000 challenge grant to the Little Traverse Bay Protection and Restoration Fund within the Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation.
The Boyne Resorts gift will help fulfill a fundraising match but also acts as a challenge to area businesses that do business within the Little Traverse Bay Watershed to support this fundraising effort. Through a collaborative effort among CMS Land Company, Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council and Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians, CMS Land Company made an initial contribution of $250,000 to establish the Fund in October 2010. In making the initial contribution, CMS Land also committed to make another $250,000 contribution if the original gift is matched by the community before the end of December 2011.
“We are proud to support CMS’s long term commitment to preserving the Little Traverse Bay watershed and our challenge grant will hopefully spur other businesses to support this effort to protect one of our area’s greatest natural resources,” said Stephen Kircher, Boyne Resorts’ president of eastern operations. “My family and Boyne Resorts have a long term view on the area’s health and well-being. This contribution is another way we’re able to reinforce that commitment while effectively helping to leverage CMS’s generous gift. Every dollar a local business donates will be matched two to one up to $25,000 by this grant.” The new Fund is a field of interest fund within the Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation. Grants that will support environmental projects throughout the Little Traverse Bay Watershed will be handled by an advisory committee selected by the Community Foundation. The Little Traverse Bay Watershed Protection Plan, developed by the Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council and a consortium of other environmental organizations, can help the advisory committee identify key environmental issues of concern in our area. While our goal is to ensure we can match the CMS donation, we will strive to establish an initial fund balance of one million dollars. We are grateful to the Kircher family and Boyne Resorts for this generous gift,” said David Jones, Community Foundation executive director. “The Little Traverse Bay and its surrounding watershed are environmental gems and an economic engine for our area. I am confident other local businesses will step forward to answer the Boyne Resorts challenge,” added Jones.
The Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation is dedicated to improving and enriching the quality of life in Emmet County. For 20 years, the Foundation has distributed grants totaling more than eight million dollars to nonprofit organizations, municipalities and schools to create or improve charitable programs. For more information, call (231)348-5820 or visit www.phsacf.org.
Boyne Resorts is the largest family owned four-season resort company in North America; founded by Everett Kircher in 1947. A Michigan-based corporation, Boyne Resorts owns and/or operates award-winning mountain and golf resorts and attractions throughout the United States and Canada including Cypress Mountain near Vancouver, British Columbia, Sugarloaf and Sunday River in Maine, Boyne Mountain, Boyne Highlands, The Inn at Bay Harbor – A Renaissance Golf Resort and Avalanche Bay Indoor Waterpark in Michigan, Big Sky Resort in Montana, Loon Mountain in New Hampshire, Gatlinburg Sky Lift in Tennessee, Brighton Resort in Utah, Crystal Mountain and The Summit at Snoqualmie in Washington. For more information on Boyne Resorts, visit www.boyneresorts.com.
