Help Us Buy A Boat for Everyone

We need help to complete our $180,000 campaign to purchase the MV Teal - new home of Discover Cayuga Lake - Floating Classroom. Please donate or tell a friend!

A fundraising campaign for Discover Cayuga Lake

Our ”Help Us Buy a Boat for Everyone” fundraising campaign is closing in on success - but we need your help!


The MV Teal is set to launch, but we need to complete our purchase of the vessel, before we can officially make it the new home of Discover Cayuga Lake - Floating Classroom programs and public eco-tours.


Our Progress:  Supporters around the lake have helped us secure $131,000 of the $180,000 we need.  More is on the way, but we calculate that we still need $20,000 to bridge the remaining the gap. 

This just in:  One of our crew has just pledged a $10,000, dollar-for-dollar match! Your contribution will be effectively doubled!  

The Challenge:  We’re running out of time. If we don't meet our goal, we begin losing opportunities for educational programming and eco-tourism revenue every day that we’re not on the water.

We Need You:  Consider making a donation. Or, if you’ve already donated, tell some friends!  It's easy - just click on “Start Fundraising” to spread the word online. Or, take a more personal approach and talk to a few friends!

As a one-time fundraising supporter, you'll have a stake in our mission, and if you raise $250 or more, we'll set you up with a free cruise with us this summer!  $500 will get you two tickets!

"A Boat for Everyone":  This is what we’re calling our campaign because the mission of Discover Cayuga Lake's Floating Classroom project is both to provide education and to ensure lake access for all young people of the region, regardless of background or financial means. We are, and will be, a boat for everyone. We hope you will learn more about our non-profit mission!


Work on the MV Teal is happening now!  Check out pictures here.

Why is this so vital?

Well, our terms as a partner project of the non-profit Center for Transformative Action mean that we cannot take on loans or debt to operate. Therefore, we rely on this capital campaign meeting its fundraising goals on time in order to complete the purchase of the boat and start running programs in May-June 2018.


Visit our website to learn more: www.discovercayugalake.org

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