Dashing through the snow: Snowmobile Clubs get volunteer management program Tourism is currently the fastest growing industry in the world. According to the Ontario Tourism Marketing Partnership, snowmobiling is the winter activity that has the greatest tourism growth potential for Ontario. The volunteers of the Ontario Federation of Snowmobile Clubs have built and are maintaining one of the world’s longest integrated trail networks – 49,000 kilometres. The trails already generate a staggering $1 billion annually. But the best is yet to come. A grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation of $360,100 over the next five years will provide the Ontario Federation of Snowmobile Clubs with the resources necessary to take up the challenge and build the volunteer capacity of their 281 clubs. The grant will support training and volunteer recruitment that will enable the snowmobile clubs to become full-time non-profit enterprises providing a wide range of recreational and social activities. This will stimulate local tourism year-round and boost the economies of rural and remote communities throughoutOntario. Since encouraging innovation and strengthening volunteerism in rural and remote communities were important objectives of the OTF’s strategic granting program, the Board of Directors selected this entrepreneurial initiative as one of the eleven projects to be awarded an Enhancing Volunteerism grant.