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.”
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| 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.
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.
