Grow Boating Committee Awards $10,000 in Grants to Pacific Northwest Boating Groups

Grow Boating Committee Awards $10,000 in Grants to Pacific Northwest Boating Groups

The Grow Boating committee is happy to report it has awarded 10 grants of $1,000 each to Pacific Northwest organizations for 2023.  “We are very pleased with the diversity of grants we were able to award this year— with both geographic and activity diversity,” says Mike Kirshenbaum, vice president of HO Sports, NMTA board member and chair of the Grow Boating committee. “We awarded grants to organizations across the region for youth and adult sailing, fishing and power boat activities. Additionally, many of the organizations will be using the grants to provide scholarships to their programs to low income or disadvantaged youth.”   The organizations receiving grants are: Southern Idaho Sailing Outreach (Boise, ID) Campus Life (Hermiston, OR) Corinthian Yacht Club (Seattle, WA) Oregon Women’s Sailing Association (Portland, OR) Broken Iron Training (Rathdrum, ID) Blue & Gold Foundation, UW (Seattle, WA) BYC Sailing Foundation (Bremerton, WA) Antique & Classic Boat Society, PNW Chapter (Eatonville, WA) Anacortes Waterfront Alliance (Anacortes, WA) Sisters in Action Sports (Bothell, WA) Since 2003, NMTA has spent more than $2 million through its Grow Boating program to promote boating in the Pacific Northwest through various events, sponsorships, grants, and programs. In the past eight years alone, 56 boating organizations have received grant funding from this program.