Ben Bragg wrote:
Anyone know if a good charity where you can donate fishing and outdoors equipment to like a kids organization or wounded vets ?
I’ve got a small stockpile of rigs I’ve put together from equipment I’ve retired. Most of it well maintained, just dated.
I could probably outfit 6 or 8 starter tackle boxes just from the stuff I have in cold storage and on my work bench.
I’d sell it off , but If a disabled vet or some kid who’s been dealt a bad hand could have it and call it his own and enjoy it…
Well that would be worth more than the few bucks I could get out of it.
Might even become someone’s favorite special lucky rod.
I think we’ve all had one of those. I’ve had several and most I didn’t buy outright when I was younger.
If you guys and gals know of a legit charitable organization , I’d go for it.
Let me know
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Ben... There is an organization called **Take a Vet Fishing, Inc.**,and our local branch is @ Branford , CT. PO Box 664, Branford Ct. 06405. I'll let you know when I locate their phone # from our post coordinator once I can contact him.
They are a registered 501 (c) (3) charity.
They run about 10 - 20 events, each year, fresh and salt, with help from the retail, business, charter boat , and other entities , having served a claimed 7,000 Vets as of 2017, the last year reported on their website. My Local American Legion Post has participated in these events, for about 7 years, but last year WE had Covid concerns about their distancing protocols, and were having financial hangover from Covid ourselves. We needed to devote most of our time not spent on critical Veterans support to fund raising, or we would have had to close the doors. The Community and volunteer support we got was fantastic, and if another bad year can be avoided , we should be OK.
The way things are going at present, we anticipate that a new round of state mandates vis a vis Covid will be instituted soon. After that, we will begin to plan our appropriate and doable Spring to Autumn event schedule.
Their site mentions setting up other chapters elsewhere, and offers help, so perhaps either of us can find something close to you in Ohio.
I'm swamped right now with medical issues, problems at home, car broke down yesterday, etc, so it will be a while before I can devote too much attention to this, but will not let it slide entirely.