Hot off the press yesterday –
BOZEMAN, Mont. — Yellow Dog Flyfishing Adventures, a specialty travel company known to anglers around the world for delivering the very best in international fishing, announced today the establishment of the Yellow Dog Community and Conservation Foundation – an effort specifically created to enhance communities, build partnerships and support conservation in places where great fishing is found. This new project will provide grants and resources to support priority conservation needs, vital community projects, and educational efforts in communities and areas directly linked to international angling destinations…
…The Foundation will directly support the conservation needs, community projects, and educational efforts where Yellow Dog customers travel and where Yellow Dog is currently doing business. This overall area of operations includes 21 countries and ten U.S. states. Whether it’s the purchase of laptop computers for a grade school on Andros Island, funds that support enforcement and monitoring of catch-and-release flats fishing in Belize, or support for angler access initiatives throughout the U.S. West, the Yellow Dog Community and Conservation Foundation will work and focus on the issues that sustain the areas anglers travel to and care about.
They’ve created a model that’s pretty damned interesting (and currently unique in the industry) –
…While company foundations and philanthropy efforts are common in the world of outdoor recreation, the YDCCF model is totally unique to the fly fishing travel industry. Through this Foundation program, when an angler books a fishing trip through Yellow Dog Flyfishing Adventures, a portion of the standard trip cost will be donated directly from Yellow Dog’s own commissions to the Foundation in the name of the client. On top of that, when an angler selects and books a participating lodge or destination, that operation will also match Yellow Dog’s contribution, resulting in a modest yet meaningful monetary gift being generated from each applicable booking. It is important to mention that the full amount of this donation is made entirely by Yellow Dog and the lodges on behalf of each trip booking, which means that there is never an additional cost added to any trip or invoice in order to support this project. With thousands of customers booking trips with Yellow Dog each year, these individual donations and contributions will add up quickly. To take full advantage of this matching funds program, anglers will be able to look for the “Participating Lodge” YDCCF logo on the Yellow Dog website and catalog to identify which operations are participating…
