Sharing Success Contribution to 4-H

Yankee Farm Credit and CoBank recently donated $5,000 each to 4-H in NY, NH and VT to help support a Tri-State Career Exploration Tour focused on Food Systems. 

CoBank’s contribution is part of their “Sharing Success” program, a $3 million matching grant program designed to benefit cooperatives and charitable groups they support throughout rural America. CoBank launched this program in 2012 to coincide with the United Nations “International Year of Cooperatives.” 

George Putnam, President and CEO, Rocky Giroux, Chairperson, Kurt Reichelt, UVM Annual Fund Officer

The tour will allow for fifty to one hundred 4-H members, in grades 7-12, to learn about careers that support the food chain––from food enterprises, marketing and promotion, lab-based research and technology, financial management and more. The overall outcome is for youth to gain an increased understanding of what careers are possible in the agricultural sector beyond farming and to learn what sort of education and skills are necessary for those careers.  Specific details about the tour are still evolving, but the contribution of $10,000 will be used to help pay for transportation, lodging and other expenses.  The planning team consists of 4-H Educators from the University of New Hampshire, Cornell University and the University of Vermont.

UPDATE 1/15/15: There is an article about 4-H in today's Burlington Free Press: "Not your grandmother's 4-H club."

UPDATE 2/17/15: Click here for a news release about this donation published in the Rutland Herald on 2/13/15.

NH 4-H Golf Tournament

The 8th Annual Tom Fairchild Friend of NH 4-H Golf Tournament was held on May 20th at Candia Woods Golf Links in Candia, NH. Approximately 100 people participated, and the event raised about $21,000 for NH 4-H.

Yankee Farm Credit was a Bronze Sponsor. Below are Wendy Brock and Tom St. Pierre. Wendy is the Program Leader for 4-H Youth Development with UNH Cooperative Extension. Tom is a Yankee Farm Credit loan officer in our St. Albans office.

Lisa Gravel, Dena Verdin, Kyle Lussier and Tom St. Pierre represented Yankee this year:

4-H Foundation of New Hampshire

Ken Nelson, Senior Loan Officer from the White River Junction office, recently represented Yankee at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the 4-H Foundation of New Hampshire. This year the meeting was held October 19, 2010 at Alan’s Restaurant in Boscawen, NH.

The 4-H Foundation helps support the many 4-H programs in New Hampshire which involve over 20,000 youth and 2,500 adult volunteers in all aspects of 4-H. Over the past year, the Foundation has provided financial support of more than $100,000 to help fund these programs.

During the meeting thanks and recognition was given to the people who have volunteered their time and talents working with 4-Hers over the years. Special recognition was given to four women who have each worked with the 4-H youth for more than 40 years. Quite an honor for these exceptionally dedicated people.

Several 4-Hers made presentations highlighting projects they have worked on or educational trips they have taken over the past year. Two teens spoke enthusiastically about their participation in a program designed to provide various activities, entertainment, life skills training and many other types of support to New Hampshire children who have a parent or parents in the military. 4-H partners with several other organizations in this program titled Operation: Military Kids (OMK). There are more than 4,000 children in New Hampshire’s military families at the present time. This is one of the many projects that the 4-H Foundation supports.

Yankee Farm Credit supports the 4-H Foundation of New Hampshire as an “Achiever” donor.

4-H Foundation of NH

Ken Nelson, Senior Loan Officer from the White River Junction office, recently represented Yankee at the 4-H Foundation of New Hampshire 50th Annual Meeting. The meeting was held at Canterbury Woods Country Club in Canterbury, NH. The evening was a celebration of the past 50 years and looking forward to the future.

The 4-H Foundation helps support the various 4-H programs in New Hampshire which involve over 25,000 youth and 2,500 adult volunteers in all aspects of 4-H. In the most recent year, the Foundation provided financial support of over $150,000 to help fund these programs.

One of the many fund raisers that the Foundation has each year is the Tom Fairchild 4-H Golf Tournament which is scheduled for May 15, 2009 at Canterbury Woods. (See this post for our participation last spring.) For more information please contact Wendy Brock, 4-H Youth Development Program Leader and Executive Director at 603-862-2187. Yankee Farm Credit supports the 4-H Foundation of New Hampshire as an "Achiever" donor.

NH 4-H Golf Tournament

The annual NH 4-H Foundation Golf Tournament was held on Friday, May 16 at Canterbury Woods Country Club in Durham, NH. The newly-renamed Tom Fairchild Golf Tournament, Friend of NH 4-H is open to all from beginning golfer to fine tuned player. The Foundation was hoping to raise $30,000 this year from the golf event. Yankee is a bronze sponsor of the annual event and sent a team of four golfers: Tom St. Pierre and Chuck Custeau, Loan Officers from the St. Albans office; Lisa Wener, Accounting Assistant from the Williston office; and Lisa Young, Records and Tax Specialist also from Williston. You may learn more about the golf tournament and auction by visiting the 4-H golf tournament Web site.

UPDATE: The Yankee golfers:

UPDATE: The plaque given to Yankee: