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To honor his remarkable 58-year career, contributions to the Eldon Cole Memorial Fund will go toward the endowment to sustain operations and provide MU Extension programming in the new state-of-the-art Eldon Cole MU Livestock Facility.
Missouri 4-H fostered new views of the world and big dreams for the 2022 recipient of the Janelle Downing Memorial 4-H Scholarship.
Despite the challenges of COVID and other competing activities for modern families, the Home Pioneer 4-H Club proves 4-H is alive and well in Atlanta, Missouri.
University of Missouri Extension has taken a lead in developing mental health resources for rural individuals and families. Now, a four-year grant commitment from the MFA Foundation will provide new avenues to fulfill this mission.
County endowment funds created by the Missouri 4-H Foundation have had a significant impact on many Missouri counties within the last year.
The event recognized 19 individuals and couples who attended, as well as the more than 70 donors currently eligible for Land-Grant Society membership.
Ever since Dr. Maude Harris, County Engagement Specialist in Nutrition and Health, started working for MU Extension in Scott County 26 years ago, she has donated a portion of each paycheck to her county’s endowment fund.
One donor with a vision can make such a powerful difference in the lives of Missouri youth. A generous estate gift from Kathryn McKillip Thrift to the Missouri 4-H Foundation is one such example. Her gift will provide for the creation of two endowment funds: one to provide a permanent source of support for Missouri 4-H camp programs; the second to support the Lone Star 4-H Club and 4-H youth development program in Crawford County, Missouri.
More Missouri youth are now connecting with 4-H thanks to supporters like Ken Donohew and Ellen Kippel who are dedicated to helping MU Extension bring Mizzou to all Missourians.
Farm families count Wesley Tucker among Missouri’s best resources for help with intergenerational farm transfer and succession issues. Tucker, a University of Missouri Extension field specialist in agriculture business and policy, also is recognized nationally as an expert on the economics of forage livestock systems.
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Missouri (Osher@Mizzou) has announced the establishment of an endowed Founders Fund — a step that will help ensure the long-term vitality of this University of Missouri Extension program that provides educational, cultural and social opportunities for learners ages 50 and over.
Giving to the University of Missouri Extension can help transform communities. Warren and Betty Sapp and Andrew Zumwalt experienced this firsthand through generous gifts that qualify them for annual membership in the newly established MU Land-Grant Society, a donator recognition society to support extension and engagement work and impacts across Missouri.
The 4-H Youth Futures College Within Reach program, developed by the University of Missouri Extension and Lincoln University Cooperative Extension, is a college orientation program that includes ongoing local mentoring, campus visits and a conference on the MU campus.
Sebrina Barrett says 4-H put her on the path to a career as a leader and advocate.
The MU Extension and Engagement Cabinet on Philanthropy serves as a catalyst for strengthening and extending the work of Mizzou’s land-grant mission through the consistent and generous support of donors.
Through the 4-H SNAC program, youth have the opportunity to become community leaders by developing a youth-led initiative to promote health habits.
For Helen and George Washburn, “lifelong learning” is more than a program motto: it is central to how Helen, former president of Cottey College in Nevada, Missouri, and George, a former high school principal, create community.
Outer space is what first brought Ron Boain together with MU Extension's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute as a learner, instructor and donor
At 4-H we give young people like Troy Ludwig the opportunity to build the leadership skills they need today to succeed in the future, but we can't do it without you.
University of Missouri Extension and Engagement exceeded its Our Time to Lead goal by nearly 50% — raising more than $37.2 million for the MU comprehensive giving campaign launched five years ago. Generous donors gave more than $6.5 million in the last year alone. To celebrate this milestone, MU Extension and Engagement this week announced two philanthropic initiatives to carry this exciting momentum through the next century.