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NSSA-NSCA Response to CA AB #2571

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In observance of the recently passed California Assembly Bill #2571, NSSA-NSCA must cease all advertising and marketing activities directed at individuals 17 years and younger in California. This includes ceasing to distribute Clay Target Nation magazine, Target Talk/Target Talk Lessons newsletters, CTN Extra newsletter, event promotions, and other association communications to affected members. We have purged all mailing and email lists of affected members for magazines, newsletters, and other communications. Processes are now in place to maintain compliance as affected member numbers change.

In addition to ceasing all advertising, marketing, and other communications with affected members, we have taken the following actions to ensure compliance with AB #2571 and mitigate risk to our association, our clubs, partners and affiliates:

  • Requesting that member clubs immediately cease promotions to affected NSSA-NSCA members, as well as evaluating their communications and event/product promotions to ensure they are in compliance
  • Notifying our advertisers, sponsors, and industry partners of NSSA-NSCA’s actions being taken in response to AB #2571
  • Notifying MySkeet, Score Chaser, Winscore, other third-party registration and scoring platforms, and other vendors who communicate with NSSA-NSCA members, that they must refrain from marketing events to affected NSSA and NSCA members
  • Adding exclusionary language to digital and print publications, newsletter sign-up forms, and media kits
  • Instructing staff on maintaining compliance with this law
  • Notifying NSSA-NSCA Chief Instructors of AB #2571 and requesting that they refrain from contacting and marketing to affected members.
  • Notifying NSSA-NSCA governing bodies of the law and the actions being taken

You can learn more about California AB #2571 at https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2571.

Any questions relative to NSSA-NSCA’s actions in response to AB #2571 should be directed to NSSA-NSCA Executive Director Michael Hampton, mhampton@nssa-nsca.com.
 

This Month In Clay Target Nation

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The August issue of Clay Target Nation brings you plenty of event coverage and some shooting tips from the biggest names in the business.

First up, in Training Tips, instructor Tim Short has some advice on shooting skeet targets in low-light or low-contrast conditions. Meanwhile, Clayton Rue asks sporting clays shooters if they have confidence in their skills or belief in themselves as a shooter. Do you know the difference?

Do you have family members who tag along to practice or tournaments? Tim Le Cras has some advice on making them a part of the experience, from teaching them to keep score to putting them in charge of driving the cart and taking photos. Skeet champion Victoria Stellato gives you the inside scoop on the World Skeet Championships and how to make the most of your trip to San Antonio for the big show. And we’ve got interviews with Katherine Adams, Katie Hunt and more about how they prepare themselves for a big tournament.

In event coverage, you’ll find articles on the Kolar Mid-America, the Briley Blue Goose, the Paxton Arms Pan-American, the South Central Regional, and, of course, the NSCA U.S. Open, including an inside interview with Rick Hemingway that’ll give you a peek behind the curtain and show you just what it takes to pull off one of sporting clays’ largest tournaments.

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Clay Target Nation is available monthly to all members in digital and/or print form. Not a member? You can receive the next issue when you join at http://nssa-nsca.org/join-nssa-nsca/.

Lori Desatoff Fund Is Inaugural Founding Endowment

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The recently created NSSA-NSCA Endowment Committee is pleased to announce the establishment of its first Founding Endowment, the Lori Desatoff Endowment. Named in honor of the late Lori Higgins Desatoff, one of the most accomplished and influential Lady skeet shooters in NSSA’s history, the endowment was established by Lori’s family as a permanently restricted fund, with spendable proceeds used to benefit youth shooting and recognition of women in the sport.

As a Founding Endowment, the fund will be initiated with a pledge of at least $100,000. The Lori Desatoff Endowment will be recognized by the association as the inaugural member of the Founders’ Circle and heading a plaque of founders in the Hal duPont NSSA-NSCA Hall of Fame and Museum.

In the 1970s through 1990s, Lori Desatoff was known not only as the best Lady shooter of her time – and possibly the best Lady shooter to date – but as one of skeet’s greatest competitors ever. As her fellow competitors can attest, she wasn’t just interested in beating the other ladies but in winning Open championships and honors. She was among the first women to win an Open World Championship, and she won two in 1987. She made the All-American Open Team five times, along with the Ladies All-American Team 14 times. She holds several Ladies concurrent records, won 22 Ladies World Championships, and was Ladies High Average Leader 60 times. She was inducted into the California, Zone 7, and NSSA Halls of Fame.

According to Lori’s son Eric Desatoff, who was instrumental in setting up the endowment, the family’s motivation in setting up the fund was to cement his mother’s legacy for future generations. “My own kids’ relationship with their grandmother was cut short by her death, and I want them to know who she was and all she accomplished,” said Eric. “Many shooters of today and in the future won’t know who she was because they never saw her compete, so hopefully having her name associated with the programs this endowment will help fund will bring her legacy to light for them and inspire others to accomplish what she did. For those who did know her, creating a lasting memorial to her will help make sure her death isn’t the last they will hear from her. It will help keep her alive in the eyes of her friends and family.”

Eric Desatoff pointed out that skeet was very important to Lori for a long time, and even when she was not competing, she was involved in some way – helping run shoots, refereeing, and doing whatever was needed to make an event happen and give others the opportunity to shoot. “Creating this endowment is a way for her to continue giving back to the sport she loved,” he said.

Making the Lori Desatoff Endowment the inaugural member of the Founders’ Circle was also meaningful to Eric and his family. “It felt right to have her be first one more time,” he pointed out. “She had so many events in her career that were breakthrough moments, especially for women’s shooting, such as setting and breaking women’s HOA records, winning two World Championships in one day, and turning the ‘men’s team’ into the Open team. It just seemed like a fitting end to the legacy she created.”

The fund’s stated mission is to use spendable proceeds “to benefit the Association’s programs with an emphasis in this order of priority: Junior World, Youth Skeet Camps, and recognition of women in the sport.” It is a permanent fund, so only the proceeds from its investment will be used.

“The main goal for me is to give these young shooters opportunities to grow and become future champions,” said Eric. “She would love knowing that this fund had helped create a future champion by giving them training and opportunities to shoot and giving them a leg up when they’re trying to get started. I would love to see my own two boys someday be able to recognize the impact from their grandmother’s legacy.”

While the fund is established by Lori Desatoff’s family, others who wish to contribute can do so. Click here for more information. You can also find a DONATE button throughout MyNSSA.com and MyNSCA.com; just designate your contribution for the Lori Desatoff Endowment. You can also mail your check to the Lori Desatoff Endowment, NSSA-NSCA, 5931 Roft Rd., San Antonio, TX 78253.

If you would like to discuss a potential donation or creating a restricted fund, contact Don Luscher, 330-687-8285 or dluscher@aol.com.

Donate to NSSA-NSCA

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Thank you for your interest in making a donation to the National Skeet Shooting Association – National Sporting Clays Association.
Welcome to our temporary DONATIONS page. We will soon have a new portal for learning about and making donations.
You may currently make donations in these ways:

  • Mail a check to:
    Attn: Misty DeLeon
    NSSA-NSCA
    5931 Roft Rd.
    San Antonio, TX 78253

    Indicate to which fund you would like your donation allocated. See below for options.
  • Contact us by phone to make a donation by credit card:
    Misty DeLeon
    210-688-3371 ext. 213

We have established funds for several donation designations. For some of them, a donation may be either Endowed (a permanent fund from which only the investment proceeds are used) or Spendable (funds that can be used at any time needed, as determined by the Endowment Fund Committee). You may choose how you prefer to have your donation designated.

    Academic Scholarships – Endowed or Spendable
    NSSA Youth Camps – Endowed or Spendable
    NSCA Youth Camps – Endowed or Spendable
    Club Disaster Relief – Endowed or Spendable
    NSSA-NSCA Hal duPont Museum & Hall of Fame – Endowed or Spendable
    USA Sporting Clays Team – Endowed or Spendable
    NSSA-NSCA Endowment Fund – Unrestricted
    Referee Training Fund
    General Fund

If you would like to donate to a purpose that is not listed or need assistance in setting up a trust, estate bequest, or other gift that requires the assistance of an attorney, accountant, broker or other professional, you or your representative may contact us so we can assist you.

    Don Luscher
    330-687-8285

The National Skeet Shooting Association is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

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