Living to Serve Program Grants and Awards
Rural Youth Development
Living to Serve, Developing a Habit of the Heart, is a federally funded program focused on rural communities to develop, implement and evaluate community-based service-learning projects that meet an identified community need. Projects must utilize the skills agriculture students are learning in the classroom to meet those needs.
Grant Writing Resources
- Sample Chapter Grant Application 1
- Sample Chapter Grant Application 2
- Sample State Grant Application
Community Walk
An interactive map highlighting Living to Serve communities and service-learning projects.
Lesson Plans
Go to Team Ag Ed Learning Center's Teaching Resources for Living to Serve lesson plans.
Grant Opportunites
Chapter Grants (for individual FFA chapters)
Do you live in a rural area with 10,000 or fewer community members and wish to apply for funding up to $2,000 to support a service-learning project? Complete and submit this 2010-2011Chapter Application by February 4, 2010.
State Grants
State FFA Staff - do you have more than four rural FFA chapters who wish to apply for funding of at least $3,000 to develop and implement a service-learning project? If so, do not fail to complete and submit this 2010-2011 State FFA Association Application Package. The deadline is February 4, 2010.
Additional Funding
For additional service-learning funding opportunities, visit Youth Service America and click on Awards and Grants.
The Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) is an agency of the USDA. Its mission is to advance knowledge for agriculture (and other areas) by supporting research, education and extension programs in the Land-Grant University system and other partner organizations including nonprofit associations. Some of the above programs are administered through CSREES.