NCWF ORGANIZATION OVERVIEW

• NCWF is North Carolina’s largest wildlife enthusiast conservation group with 60 years experience, 12,000 general members, and 23 affiliated sportsmens clubs in all regions of North Carolina.

• NCWF is North Carolina’s only statewide, non-partisan, science-based group representing this unique and substantial segment of the population.

• Our mission is to advocate for all North Carolina wildlife and its habitat

• Our goal is to have every acre where possible in North Carolina, managed, or better managed for wildlife.

• We work in four program areas: Land Stewardship, Water Resources, Wildlife Conservation, and Resource-based Recreation.

• In each program area, specific NCWF projects bring to bear the organization’s strengths of advocacy, education, grassroots and grasstops mobilization, and policy expertise.

• Our project efforts within these four program areas take place in rural and urban communities across the state. Our projects involve volunteers, schools, places of worship, businesses, industrial sites, our affiliates, and wildlife enthusiast groups of all kinds and sizes.

• We engage and educate these groups in the hands-on advocacy for, and conservation of, their local natural resources, and of landscape-scale natural resources as well.

• Our 12 professional staff work from two offices, Raleigh and Charlotte. They are trained in policy and legislative work, program development, volunteer management, and coalition building.

• By design, our Board of Directors represents all nine Wildlife Resource Commission Districts across North Carolina.