Every Dollar, Doubled. Every Project, Local.
Through SCI International’s Matching Grants program, the conservation funds this chapter raises are matched dollar-for-dollar. We’ve used that leverage for decades — and we’ve got the project list to show for it.
EVERY DOLLAR WE DONATE IS MATCHED
How Matching Grants Work
SCI International runs a Matching Grants program available to chapters in good standing. When our chapter contributes to a qualifying conservation project — a habitat restoration, a species recovery effort, a school land project, a state agency partnership — SCI matches the contribution dollar for dollar.
That’s why a chapter dinner fundraiser in Columbiana, Ohio can move serious money onto the ground in Mercer County, Pennsylvania. The chapter raises the first dollar. SCI matches it. The project gets both.
How Matching Grants Work
Across the chapter’s history, our donations have supported:
State & Federal Wildlife Agencies
- Pennsylvania Game Commission
- Ohio Division of Wildlife (formerly Ohio Game Commission)
- Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission
Youth & Education Programs
- Millcreek Marksmen 4-H Club
- AWLS scholarships for regional educators
- Youth event days across our region
Habitat & Species Projects
- Pheasant pen construction at a Venango County, NW Pennsylvania school
- School habitat improvement projects
- Regional species recovery support
Community Conservation
- Safari Blue Bag drives (clothing, supplies, books)
- VA Fishing Outings for area veterans
- Soldiers and Sailors missions
- Sensory Safari programming
A Story Worth Telling
A few years back, our chapter contributed to a group of students at a Northwest Pennsylvania school in Venango County who were raising funds to build a pheasant pen on school property. They needed the matching capital. We provided it. The pen got built. The kids learned habitat management hands-on. The pheasants got released onto regional land.
That’s the model — small chapter, real local impact, money that goes where it actually matters.
DONATED ACROSS ALL CHAPTER PROGRAMS
Verified chapter contributions to conservation, education, and community programs since our founding — before SCI Matching Grant multipliers are counted. The actual impact on the ground is significantly higher.
Conservation is funded one dinner at a time.
The Annual Night of the Hunter Dinner is the engine. Your ticket, your bid, your raffle entry — that’s how this work gets done.
