Doug Ferris of Memphis and Monteagle has made a challenge gift of $12,000 to the Mountain Goat Trail Alliance for its capital campaign.
“I have been a proponent of the Mountain Goat Trail, and of what I think will become its positive economic impact, since the beginning. I hope that others will join me in supporting the trail by matching my challenge gift and donating $24,000 to take this campaign to the top,” Ferris said.
This is the second major challenge gift of this type, following the Cammack Family Foundation’s $10,000 donation earlier this year. Both donations are for the Alliance’s Phase III Capital Campaign, in collaboration with the Land Trust for Tennessee. The campaign has a goal of $83,000 for property acquisition between Monteagle and Tracy City, as well as for ongoing programs of the MGTA. To date, only $13,900 remains to complete the project.
“We are honored and thrilled by Doug’s challenge gift to the Mountain Goat Trail. We are sure that it will move others to express their support for the Trail and its mission—to bring economic and recreational benefits to all the communities of the South Cumberland Plateau,” said Janice Thomas, MGTA board president.
The Mountain Goat Trail is a rail-to-trail community outdoor recreation project to convert an abandoned railroad right-of-way into a multi-use recreational corridor between Grundy and Franklin counties on the Cumberland Plateau in middle Tennessee. For more information, visit <www.mountaingoattrail.org>.
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