IATC Annual Fund Campaign is a Huge Success!

Thank you to all of our generous donors who made the IATC's inaugural Annual Fund Campaign a huge success. With your help, we exceeded our goal and raised over $40,000 for the IATC's 40th Anniversary year! This huge milestone wouldn't have been possible without the support of so many friends and volunteers. A special thanks also goes out to our Board of Directors, who made it possible to offer donors a matching challenge, doubling the impact of gifts made during the campaign.

Much gratitude goes out to our donors for investing in our trails, wildlands, and parks. All support raised during the campaign will go straight to the heart of our mission -- advocacy. The generosity of our community will help citizen activists organize, mobilize, and influence on a broader and deeper level than ever before. We have much more to do to ensure that our trails and public lands are preserved and maintained. 

Plans are underway for an Advocacy Workshop to inform and empower citizen activists who want to help protect our public lands. Last month the IATC hosted a Diversity and Inclusion Workshop and we plan to implement several key take-aways through our Hiking Program, and in collaboration with partner organizations. Additionally, in January we will host our Second Annual Public Forum featuring a panel of land agency representatives from the City of Issaquah and Sammamish, State Parks, Washington State DNR and King County Parks. In the spring, we’ll invite our community to participate in a public art mosaic project, featuring the Issaquah Alps and commemorating the past 40 years of conservation efforts. Throughout next summer we plan to significantly increase volunteer participation and public engagement through the mosaic project, our Trailhead Ambassador, and Hiking programs. 

Thank you again to those who supported the IATC with a donation during our "Save our Trails" Annual Fund Campaign. Your generous gifts will help the IATC continue to engage the public to preserve, protect, and promote the land, wildlife, and trails of the Issaquah Alps for present and future generations.