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Some of you may know that the National 4-H Council has, for the last two years, run a promotional program where they give 10% of the orders from NYS back to us through a donation to the NYS 4-H Foundation. What a great deal and it surely helps us want to support Council even [...]

A reminder that National 4-H Curriculum Pre-Press begins tomorrow!The National 4-H Curriculum pre-press period is April 1st – 25th, 2008. All National 4-H Curriculum orders placed during the pre-press period will receive a 35% discount.
Pre-press orders can be placed at: www.4-hmall.org. National 4-H Curriculum prices online have been changed to reflect the 35% discount during [...]

Make your plans now to attend…Land Grant Youth Entrepreneurship Symposium

The First Annual Land Grant Youth Entrepreneurship Symposium (Land Grant YES) will be hosted by The Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development at The Pennsylvania State University, June 4-6, 2008, in State College, Pennsylvania. Land Grant YES will bring educators and programmers from eastern U.S. states [...]

Have you checked out the Give Change, Make Change for Youth materials recently? http://nys4h.cce.cornell.edu/givechange . An array of support materials are available and a great selection of stories of 4-H’ers and alumni that have succeeded because of people like you.
As you may recall, the campaign is a fund-drive of the New York State 4-H Foundation. [...]

The annual report is available online, http://nys4h.cce.cornell.edu/program/documents/07pdf.pdf, and hard copies should have been delivered to your counties. Check it out.

4-H Youth Development Evaluation Conference – to be held at Cornell on May 20, will feature Dr. Richard Lerner from Tufts University. He will talk about the important role of evaluation in 4-H Youth Development programs. Coordinated by the Cornell Evaluation Team of Bill Trochim and Sarah Hertzog, the conference will connect educators with the [...]

A program targeted for the 4-H program leader ( issue leader, or team leader) from each county will be meeting with the state 4-H program leader and state staff on May 19. The purpose of these meetings – the first one held as a pre-conference workshop at the system conference last fall – is to [...]

The Resource Directory Team helps to guide and support the NYS 4-H Resource Directory, http://www.cerp.cornell.edu/4h/. Thought you might like an update…and if this is something that you would like to be a part of, please don’t hesitate to let Celeste Carmichael know of your interest – cjc17@cornell.edu.
Team to meet 4/25 on campus. The RD team [...]

Some of you may know the way that this works….any curric ordered from http://www.4-hmall.org/ April 1 – 25th will receive a 35% discount.
Veteran educators will remember that this used to be only on large orders placed by counties or states. That is no longer the case…any order, any amount, from anyone (kids, clubs, teachers, etc.) [...]

Capital Days was great – thanks for sending such great kids, chaperones, and staff!
The teens worked on a press release as a “back home” follow up to Cap Days. Please add your local information, local letterhead, and send it out (preferably with a photo). Most newspapers, as you likely know, will take things electronically. Thanks [...]