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Name of Organization: Farm Safety 4 Just Kids
Social Media Channels (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube,: Facebook and Twitter
YouTube account – but we haven’t used it much

Reach of Organization: 1,200 community events; 169,000 kids; 8,500 volunteers; 1.9million through media, trade shows, ect.
How does your organization help people between the: Our mission is to promote a safe farm environment to prevent health hazards, injuries, and fatalities to children and youth. We are making sure our farm kids grow up safe and healthy so they can become the next generation of farmers and ranchers who feed
Specify how you would use this contribution from C: By empowering our chapters and outreach coordinators to do more farm safety presentations and teaching them how to share not only the farm safety message, but one of ag-vocacy as well.
Would you prefer to have a workshop donated from M: Our chapters would most benefit from a workshop. However, since they are spread out across the U.S. and Canada, a workshop would have to be conducted via web based technology.

If the structure of the workshop is not compatible with a web conference forma
Describe three ways you will leverage this contrib: This contribution will benefit three seperate groups who reach different audiences.

Outreach coordinators: reach farmers and ranchers in 9 states across the U.S.

Chapters: reach farmers and ranchers in 120 areas across the U.S. and Canada

National Off
What do you see as thought leadership in connectin: From a farm safety perspective, stories of farm accidents provide for tremendous impact. The difficulty lies in balancing the ethical implication of leveraging a very emotionally charged incident for education.

Across the board it’s important for others

Name of Organization: Food For Thought
Social Media Channels (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube,: Twitter – @fftgroup
Facebook – Food For Thought
Blog – www.bloggingfoodforthought.blogspot.com

Reach of Organization: Based in Kansas, but reaching 126 different countries through social media.
How does your organization help people between the: Our group, without alliances to any certain commodity, promotes agriculture and all of its entities. We aim to bridge the gap between producers and consumers by being a source of information for consumers via social media. We have also established a lectu
Specify how you would use this contribution from C: I would like to allot funds towards all of our endeavors – lectureship and Friends of the Farm specifically. I think that we are making a big difference with our lectureship by inviting big names in to speak about hot topics like Dr. Temple Grandin and a
Would you prefer to have a workshop donated from M: I would think that the grant would be more beneficial at this time. We have been recognized by several commodity groups and been to several workshops. As our membership transitions and becomes a newer group of Food For Thought’ers I would think a workshop
Describe three ways you will leverage this contrib: I would like to see our speaker series move off of campus once. Maybe into the Kansas City area so that we can really reach a large audience.

I would like to implement our pilot of Farm Tour Fridays and supply our information to other states to follow
What do you see as thought leadership in connectin: We are all passionate about an industry that feeds the world. What more noble career is there? I’m convinced that if people could walk away from alliances with specific commodities within agriculture, we can begin to really hit the consumer hard with this