Trout Unlimited Inc.

Filing Period

Oct 1, 2010 to Sep 30, 2011

Signed

Aug 6, 2012

Return Version

2010v3.4

Gross Receipts

$36,694,416

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Sustaintu grassroots volunteers donated more than 651,212 volunteer hours (valued at $13,909,888) during 2011, and brought in close to $9 million in revenue. Four grassroots regional meetings were held, all of which grew in size and scope. Tu worked with its chapters and councils to update bylaws and manuals. The leaders only tools also were updated and 20 online trainings on how to use these tools were hosted, recorded and posted online to maximize the number of volunteers that can be reached. Tu continued to build stronger councils through trainings and communications.tu added summer youth conservation camps in tn and vt, for a total of 22 nationwide. Tu also began planning for its potential nationwide americorps program. Tu's one-tu youth report was written and an inventory of all tu youth activity from both volunteers and staff was conducted and the results presented at the tu annual meeting. Tu partnered with costa del mar to develop 8 new college affiliate clubs in the southeast. Tu's ny trout in the classroom program was successfully coordinated for hundreds of classrooms, reaching thousands of students, and included 3 teacher meetings, a month of field days for urban youth, and many classroom outreach visits.tu expanded the vsp program by increasing the number of chapters involved from 31 to 60, and forming partnerships with warriors and quiet waters, rivers of recovery, and hidden wounds. The vsp program also was introduced to active duty military members through a program at the army war college and the warrior transition unit at fort jackson, sc; to the homeless veteran's community through the abccm veteran's restoration quarters in asheville, nc; and in areas of the country lacking in va medical centers or dod facilities, 8 tu chapters provided services to disabled veterans living independently in their areas.in 2011, tu's dues paying membership grew by 6% to 145,000, and its fb membership nearly doubled to 17,000 through innovative use of direct mail and online strategies. Tu also developed its brand and marketing strategy, launched a pilot community to test web functionality, initiated implementation of a new database and customer relationship management (crm) infrastructure, and formed new partnerships to reach a younger, more diverse audience (e.g., the fly fishing film tour [f3t]).

Activity 3

Sciencetu prepared a member survey and questionnaire relative to ais issues, and participated in national invasive species awareness week and provided educational resources to local chapters. Tu continued its science collaboration with usgs and the usfs in assessments of numerous climate associated risk factors to western trout. Several peer-reviewed papers were published, including a summary paper by wenger et al in the proceedings of the national academy of sciences in 2011 and included 4 tu scientists among the authors. A summary paper on climate risks to western trout was published in a usgs open file report 2010-1236. Tu produced a limiting factor analysis tool - called mr fat - that provides the ability to measure the effectiveness of various meadow and riparian restoration projects on native fish limiting factors. Tu published articles on the genetic integrity of fish populations that are important to sport fishing, such as the south fork of the boise river in idaho, and developed a handbook on stream management for private landowners.tu applied its conservation portfolio planning process to rio grande cutthroat trout, yellowstone cutthroat trout, colorado river cutthroat trout, and bonneville cutthroat trout. Maps showing the results of our analysis may be found on the tu website (www.tu.org/science/conservation-success-index/). The csi was expanded to help identify salmon and steelhead strongholds on the pacific coast and native fish conservation areas in the colorado river basin and the atlantic coast. Csi analyses have been completed for winter and summer steelhead, coho salmon, chinook salmon, chum salmon and pink salmon on the west coast, as well as atlantic salmon on the east coast.

Filer

EIN

38-1612715