Another Record Year for the Wisconsin FFA Foundation
Friday, July 1st, 2016 -- 8:35 AM
(Wisconsin Ag Connection) -The sun has set on the Wisconsin FFA Foundation's fiscal year and the amount of contributions to the group has reached another all-time record.The Madison-based group says donors have raised a total of $614,200 over the past 12 months--far exceeding the $545,000 campaign goal the Foundation's board of directors set last summer. In addition to the record amount of financial support, the Wisconsin FFA as an organization has recorded 20,463 members on its roster this past school year, a 37-year high. Membership is also up on the national level.
Meanwhile, the group has elected new officers for the coming year. They include Amber Vickers Keller, Town Bank, president; Travis Holt, Citizens State Bank of Loyal, past-president; Jon Anderson, Grade A Strategic Brand and Marketing Solutions, vice president; Robin Connelly, Organic Valley/CROPP Cooperative, secretary; and Nick Hemling, ANIMART, treasurer. Co-chairs of the Development Committee include Kathleen A. Murphy, John Deere Financial; and Luke Wiedenfeld, Kraft Heinz Company.
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