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Monday, 12 January 2009 |
By Nick James
Special to the Herald
Thanks to a grant The NRA Foundation Friends of NRA program the Texhoma FFA will receive just under $1,400.00 to underwrite Texhoma FFA’s sporting clays. “We are very excited about Texhoma’s sporting clays program,” said Friends of the NRA volunteer Caleb Crawford, “and pleaded that the NRA is making an investment on our community” that will help our shooting team for upcoming contests.
Friends of the NRA is a grassroots community-minded program supported by gun owners, sportsmen, and NRA friends that conducts banquets and other fundraising events to generate income for the NRA Foundation. Last year, the Friends of NRA raised over $11.7 million through events in 990 communities nationwide. The NRA Foundation has awarded 395 grants totaling over $1.1 Million for charitable programs in Oklahoma.
The NRA Foundation supports a broad range of programs and services that benefit local communities for providing shooting range access for physically-disabled shooters to firearms safety, education and leadership programs for America’s youth. Some of the programs include the Eddie Eagle Gun Safety Program which teaches elementary school children gun safety; the Environment, Conservation and Hunting Outreach (ECHO) program that promotes the wise use of natural resources and hunter safety and ethics; and the Refuse To Be A Victim program instructing women in how to live safer, more secure lives, among many others. The NRA Foundation is a nonprofit arm of the National Rifle Association and is dedicated to promoting and funding firearms safety, education and training programs nationally.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 13 January 2009 )
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