Hartsburg-Emden FFA receives grant to support environmental service-learning project

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[November 08, 2013]  HARTSBURG -- The Hartsburg-Emden FFA chapter has been awarded a $2,000 grant from the National FFA Organization's Living to Serve: Environmental Grant program.

The chapter has developed a yearlong service-learning project to meet local environmental needs.

The environmental program grants are provided through funding from corporate sponsors CSX and the Donaldson Foundation as a special project of the National FFA Foundation.

The Hartsburg-Emden FFA project includes plans to collect corrugated cardboard from their school and both communities, Hartsburg and Emden. The cardboard will be delivered to Midwest Fiber at Bloomington for recycling. Cardboard is a bulky material and not many people and businesses want to handle this material. The FFA has purchased an enclosed cargo trailer to store the cardboard until it is full and then delivered to the recycling center.

The project illustrates the FFA motto -- "Learning to Do, Doing to Learn, Earning to Live, Living to Serve" -- by encouraging FFA members to unite in service within their communities. The Living to Serve: Environmental Grant program takes community service one step further to service-learning, which provides a meaningful way to apply leadership and education skills learned in school and FFA.

More information about the environmental grant program is available at www.ffa.org/envirogrants.

The National FFA Organization provides leadership, personal growth and career success training through agricultural education to 579,678 student members in grades seven through 12 who belong to one of 7,570 local FFA chapters throughout the U.S., Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

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The FFA mission is to make a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education. The National FFA Organization operates under a federal charter granted by the 81st United States Congress and is an integral part of public instruction in agriculture. The U.S. Department of Education provides leadership and helps set direction for FFA as a service to state and local agricultural education programs. For more information, visit the National FFA Organization online at www.ffa.org, on Facebook, Twitter and the official National FFA Organization blog.

The National FFA Foundation builds partnerships with industry, education, government, other foundations and individuals to secure financial resources that recognize FFA member achievements, develop student leaders and support the future of agriculture education. Governed by a 19-member board of trustees comprised of educators, business leaders, individual donors and FFA alumni, the foundation is a separately registered nonprofit organization. About 82 percent of all sponsorship dollars received by the foundation support FFA members and agricultural education opportunities. For more information, visit the National FFA Foundation at http://www.ffa.org/give.

The Donaldson Foundation, established in 1966, funds charitable causes on behalf of the Donaldson Co. The mission of the foundation is to positively impact the communities where its employees live and work by supporting education. To learn more about the Donaldson Foundation, visit http://www.donaldson.com/en/about/
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