The National Archery in the Schools Program (NASP®) is proud to once again be featured prominently alongside other youth shooting sports programs in the latest U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Partner With a Payer™video series.

Watch the video here: Enabling Opportunities for the Future

This video is part of the Partner with a Payer™ initiative — a collaboration amongst the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), Archery Trade Association (ATA), and state and industry partners — that showcases how excise taxes paid by archery and firearms manufacturers under the Wildlife Restoration Act (Pittman-Robertson Act of 1973) serve as a primary source of funding supporting critical conservation efforts, expanding public access, and advancing hunting and shooting sports education programs such as NASP®.

The latest video, “Enabling Opportunities for the Future,” features NASP® alongside several other national youth shooting sports organizations. It highlights the incredible value that shooting sports — including NASP® — bring to young people and their communities, supported in large part through the federal excise taxes paid by sportsmen and women whenever they purchase bows, arrows, firearms, or ammunition.

The video also highlights the incredible impacts that shooting sports programs have on the personal lives of our nation’s youth. From creating lifelong friendships to fostering lessons in hard work and success, shooting sports programs help millions of young people achieve personal goals long after they leave the program. In 2024, NASP® released a student survey that captured the powerful ways the program is shaping its 1.2 million annual participants. The findings strongly support the ability of archery to help students navigate challenges, handle adversity, and strive for success both in and out of the classroom.

“NASP® is so proud to be highlighted alongside our valued shooting sports partners in this video,” said Tommy Floyd, President of NASP®. “We are proud of the impacts we are making together on the lives of millions of youth, their families, and their communities.”

“We greatly appreciate the support of the Federal Excise Tax program for shooting sports and the vital connection it plays between participants, state fish and wildlife agencies, the USFWS, and the hunting and shooting sports industry,” said Jeff Rawlinson, Vice President of NASP®. “Each year, these funds have real world impacts in communities all across the U.S

“We live in a nation that treasures wild places, wild creatures, and wild things,” added Tommy Floyd. “The sportsmen and women of this country have helped pay for that conservation. Together, we are inspiring millions of our young people to foster that role long into the future.”