The Sleepy Eye FFA Officer Team is so thankful for the $5000 FFA Alumni and Supporters Give Back to Your Roots Grant sponsored by Nutrien Ag Solutions. It will help the chapter to continue to offer affiliate membership and allow FFA access to all Sleepy Eye Ag. Students. Pictured l to r: front – Jace Schauman, Alex Confer, Jaelynn Schauman, Taylor Berkner, Anna Johnson, Lucia Martinez, Lily Kallevig. Back – Carter Lazatin, Eric Lozano, Kayden Klein, Ari Krzmarzick, Logan Ludewig, Charlie Hoffmann, Noah Rossbach.
INDIANAPOLIS July 10, 2024/National FFA Organization –The National FFA Organization awarded a $5000 FFA Alumni and Supporters Give Back to Your Roots Grant to Sleepy Eye FFA Alumni. The Sleepy Eye FFA Alumni plans to use the funds to provide access to FFA and all its opportunities for 100% of Ag. Students by being an affiliated chapter in 2024-25. This will allow all members to attend FFA events and participate.
More than $90,000 in grants, supported by Nutrien Ag Solutions, has been awarded through the National FFA Organization’s FFA Alumni and Supporters Give Back to Your Roots Grant program this year. The purpose of the grants is to cover the cost of the FFA student chapter affiliation fees, assist with plant science-based educational opportunities/equipment and supervised agricultural experience programs or help purchase necessary supplies and materials for the local agricultural education program.
The National FFA Organization provides leadership, personal growth, and career success training through agricultural education to 945,988 student members who belong to one of 9,163 local FFA chapters in all 50 states and Puerto Rico. The organization is also supported by 725,289 alumni members in 2,550 alumni and supporters chapters.