Great Smoky Mountains » Friends of the Smokies http://www.greatsmokyway.com The Great Smoky Mountains - trip planning, guides, pictures, videos, accommodations and more. Tue, 31 May 2011 18:13:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Friends of the Smokies http://www.greatsmokyway.com/friends-of-the-smokies http://www.greatsmokyway.com/friends-of-the-smokies#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:20:15 +0000 David http://www.greatsmokyway.com/?p=128 Friends of the Smokies, a Great Smoky Mountains National Park preservation and protection group, has pledged to give $1 million to park programs in 2010. That is amazing news for GRSM fans! This charity is not run by the National Parks Service, but each year the NPS publishes a list of needs for the Great Smoky Mountains Park and the Friends of the Smokies charity works to provide funding for those needs.

The group said in a news release that the projects it helps support include Parks as Classrooms, which provides hands-on learning opportunities for more than 18,000 area children.

You might not know Friends of the Smokies directly, but if you’ve visited the park I guarantee that you’ve seen benefits of their work. They have thousands of friends/donators – you’ll recognize some of them by the special license plates they have on their cars.

You cna find out more at FriendsOfTheSmokies.org

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