Living to Serve: 7 Stellar FFA Chapters Share Their Stories
The well-known FFA motto is “Learning to Do, Doing to Learn, Earning to Live, Living to Serve.” These simple twelve words demonstrate the National FFA Organization’s emphasis on developing leadership, service and personal growth. They also help members build confidence, promote agriculture awareness and discover themselves. Many Wisconsin FFA chapters have recently focused their attention on the last three words: Living to Serve. Members participated in events that allowed them to give back to their communities and to FFA alumni. Here are seven awesome examples of service projects put on throughout Wisconsin FFA!
1. Osseo-Fairchild FFA
Osseo-Fairchild FFA demonstrates “Living to Serve!”
Members of the Osseo-Fairchild FFA hatched and raised broiler chickens. Once they were fully grown, they were then donated to a local food pantry.
2. Medford FFA
Medford FFA frosts cookies with local nursing home residents.
Chapter officers from Medford FFA baked cookies which were taken to a nursing home. The residents had a great time frosting cookies while talking to FFA members about their agricultural pasts and life stories!
3. West Salem FFA
A Food for America event was organized by West Salem FFA.
Members of the West Salem FFA chapter organized a Food for America event which allowed them to promote agricultural literacy by educating students and communities about where their food comes from.
4. Oshkosh North FFA
Oshkosh North FFA gave back to the community by donating hand-tied blankets to homeless shelters.
Oshkosh North FFA is Living to Serve by creating and donating tied blankets to homeless shelters. Many of their members were able to help give back to the community!
5. Howards Grove FFA
Howards Grove FFA members expressed their appreciation with a school staff breakfast during National FFA Week.
During National FFA Week, members of the Howards Grove FFA chapter put together a school staff appreciation breakfast to express their gratitude towards the faculty!
6. Mondovi FFA
Mondovi FFA is Living hosts a staff breakfast and rewards FFA members with Malt Day.
Speaking of FFA Week, Mondovi FFA also hosts a staff breakfast to show their teachers how thankful they are for everything they do. In addition, this chapter has Malt Day — an event rewarding FFA members for all of their hard work and dedication with a little treat!
7. Stanley-Boyd FFA
Stanley-Boyd FFA is Living to Serve by teaming up with the local food pantry to collect and donate items to those in need.
The Stanley-Boyd FFA chapter holds monthly drives at their chapter meetings, and they collect items such as hygiene products, school supplies, and winter clothing, depending on the month. In their most successful drive, they collected hundreds of toys and were able to hand them out to many families by teaming up with the local food pantry.
FFA presents so many opportunities for members to give back to their communities. These inspiring FFA chapters took the initiative to support a cause they believed in, and they successfully left a positive impact. Giving back to and through is about investing in the next generation of agriculturists who will feed the world and lead their communities with warm hearts. Great job, Wisconsin FFA — step up, stand out and keep embracing opportunities in agriculture!
