4-H Youth need your support. With ever shrinking support from traditional federal and state resources, we count on individual donors like you to fill the gap between the opportunities we want to give our 4-H Youth and the available dollars. You can make a difference in a young person's life with a gift of $25, $50, $100 or more!
Why Give a Gift to 4-H?
- The 4-H Program has over a 100 year history-- our program today serves youth from rural areas and small towns to cities and suburbs.
- Youth have the opportunity to select from over 60 subjects and activities of interest ranging from aerospace and computer science to photography, arts and crafts, and genealogy.
- 4-H Programs are available in a variety of formats- community clubs, afterschool clubs, and school enrichment to camps and specialized workshops. Activities are facilitated by both professional extension educators and dedicated volunteers.
- 4-H Youth development utilizes hands-on, research-based educational opportunities-- we help youth become competent, caring, confident, connected, and contributing citizens of character.
- We strive to provide youth in our program a safe place to belong; help them to master skills and develop independence; and teach them to give to others and their community.
The Indiana 4-H Youth Development Program is the largest statewide
youth serving organization serving nearly 217,000 Indiana Youth in 2008. It is the only youth organization that is affiliated with the state's land-grant institution, Purdue University. Nearly 1 our of every 4 Indiana youth in grades 3-12 were involved in the Indiana 4-H Program in 2008.
A recently released report entitled The 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development indicates "the true value of 4-H programs comes not from short-term results or even the effects over a few years. It comes from the programs' influence on lifelong pathways of development."
A recently released report entitled The 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development indicates "the true value of 4-H programs comes not from short-term results or even the effects over a few years. It comes from the programs' influence on lifelong pathways of development."
For questions about giving, please e-mail Liz Ellis, 4-H Resource Development Officer at liz-ellis@purdue.edu or call (765) 494-8483.
