Then show me. Talk is cheap. I'd like to see it done.

I suggested a REAL way to get some good from your free fur. Make it work, and I'll donate fur to the cause.

Nobody has yet to come up with any ideas for how to raise money for the tanning and garment manufacture. Even if you could get a skin tanned and a hat manufactured for $50, we're still talking about $50,000 just to produce 1000 hats.

Well Toby, maybe it will. Maybe it won't. Who knows, since this post is in what most professionals would refer to as a "brainstorming" stage. Since you've little or no professional experience, I understand that it's likely not anything you've ever heard of before. But the basis is that people toss out ideas, and then people discuss those ideas. Some may turn out to be worthless, while others may turn out to be priceless. On rare occasions, people may even toss out one idea, that proves to be worthless to the topic at hand, but invaluable to either another project in the works, or one that may come at a later date.

Nothing bad ever came from brainstorming an idea. In fact, I believe NTA still contributes to a similar idea, no? I mean it's been a couple years, but last I knew NTA still spent a steady few K every year sponsoring fur coats for congressman's wives. It was, I believe, called Fur Wraps the Hill? Maybe you're too green to have heard of it? If so, contact Dave and Karen Linkhart, I'm sure they can fill you in. In fact, they may even be interested in expanding the general idea behind that program that NTA has wholeheartedly supported since the early-mid-2000s to include publicity from donating to the needy opposed to those who already bring in triple digit salaries?

Out of curiosity, since you oppose fur garments to veterans and cancer patients, do you equally oppose them to congress people? If so, have you voiced that concern in a board meeting?

So whether or not this comes to be an active program, I feel the thoughts offered within here are invaluable.... even if their ONLY purpose is to spark a thought in another arena.

Why any representative of the NTA would choose to shoot down proactive thinking, simply boggles my mind.

Old Rel & Yote30 your points are both valuable in this discussion- can we carry on?

So on the much smaller/ more realistically scaled model of this project- does anyone know the end users? Who would like their associations name on this?

Old Rel & Yote30 your points are both valuable in this discussion- can we carry on?