Earn up to $500 for your club from Chinook Financial!

Please note, that because you are getting paid for your services, this program does not count as your clubs volunteer community service hours!

Based in Alberta, Chinook Financial has eleven locations in Southern Alberta and provides full service banking including business, personal, ag, trading and investments. The Chinook Financial Community Service Recognition program encourages all active 4-H Clubs within the Chinook Financial communities to apply for a grant with our community service recognition program.

Program Details:

·         Between September 15 and November 1, 2016 4-H club leaders can visit their nearest Chinook Financial branch to enroll in this program.

·         Club leaders will track volunteer hours spent by the club volunteering in your communities

·         Chinook Financial will match $10 per volunteer hour, to a max of $500 per club (50 hours

·         To receive donation by June, club leaders must submit the following prior to May 1, 2016 to their local Chinook Financial branch:

o   At least 2 photos of your 4-H club volunteering holding a Chinook Financial and 4-H sign

o   Signed Connect First Credit Union photo consent forms for all club members

o   Signed volunteer tracking forms with all fields completed

Below is a list of clubs applicable for this opportunity. If your 4-H club is in the community of a Chinook Financial and you are not on the list below please contact patzer@4hab.com to get added to the program.

Arrowwood 4-H Beef Club

Arrowwood River Wranglers 4-H Horse

Balzac 4-H Beef Club

Bow River Riders 4-H Lighthorse

Brooks & Area 4-H Beef Club

Champion 4-H Multi Club

Cheadle 4-H Club

Claresholm 4-H Beef

Claresholm 4-H Multi CLub

Cow Country 4-H Judging Club

Crowfoot Multi 4-H

Delia 4-H Beef Club

Dryland 4-H Multi

Dusty Plains 4-H Multi Club

East Sounding Creek 4-H Beef

Foothills 4-H Sheep and Multi Club

Fort Macleod 4-H Beef

Fort Macleod Midnight Riders 4-H Club

Hanna Rangeland 4-H Multi

Hesketh-Orkney 4-H Beef

Hussar 4-H Club

Jenner 4-H Beef

John Ware 4-H Beef

John Ware 4-H Light Horse

Lomond 4-H Multi

Morrin 4-H Multi Club

Rockyford 4-H Beef Club

Rumsey Rowley 4-H Beef

South Slope 4-H Beef

Standard 4-H

Stavely Parkland 4-H Beef

Stavely Stampeders Light Horse 4-H Club

Strathmore 4-H Multi Club

Strathmore Rusty Spurs 4-H Horse

Tilley 4-H Club

                            

 

 

 

 

Earn up to $500 for your club from Chinook Financial!

Please note, that because you are getting paid for your services, this program does not count as your clubs volunteer community service hours!

Based in Alberta, Chinook Financial has eleven locations in Southern Alberta and provides full service banking including business, personal, ag, trading and investments.

Chinook Financial Community Service Recognition Program recognizes that 4-H clubs play a key role in building proud and connected communities. This Community Service Recognition program encourages all active 4-H Clubs within the Chinook Financial communities to apply for a grant with our community service recognition program.

 
       ·      Between September 15 and November 1, 2016 4-H club leaders can visit their nearest Chinook 
             Financial branch to enroll in this program.

·        Club leaders will track volunteer hours spent by the club volunteering in your communities

·        Chinook Financial will match $10 per volunteer hour, to a max of $500 per club (50 hours)

·        To receive donation by June, club leader must submit the following prior to May 1, 2016:

o   At least 2 photos of your 4-H club volunteering holding a Chinook Financial and 4-H sign

o   Signed Connect First Credit Union photo consent forms for all club members

·         Signed volunteer tracking forms with all fields completed

Please feel free to share the poster attached at your first regional meeting and by email.

Below are a list of clubs applicable for this opportunity. If your 4-H club is in the community of a Chinook Financial and you are not on the list below please contact patzer@4hab.com to  get added to the program.

4-H Alberta Region	Chinook Financial Branch	4-H Alberta District	4-H Alberta Clubs
South 19 clubs	Bassano Brooks (9)	Newell	Bow River Riders 4-H Lighthorse Brooks & Area 4-H Beef Club Cow Country 4-H Judging Club Dusty Plains 4-H Multi Club Jenner 4-H Beef John Ware 4-H Beef John Ware 4-H Light Horse South Slope 4-H Beef Tilley 4-H Club                                (9)
	Lomond Vulcan (4)	Vulcan	Arrowwood 4-H Beef Club Champion 4-H Multi Club Lomond 4-H Multi                               Foothills 4-H Sheep and Multi Club      (4)
	Claresholm Fort Macleod Nanton (6)	Willow creek	Claresholm 4-H Beef Claresholm 4-H Multi CLub Fort Macleod 4-H Beef Fort Macleod Midnight Riders 4-H Club Stavely Parkland 4-H Beef Stavely Stampeders Light Horse 4-H Club    (6)
East Central 7 clubs	Drumheller (4)	Drumheller	Delia 4-H Beef Club Hesketh-Orkney 4-H Beef Morrin 4-H Multi Club Rumsey Rowley 4-H Beef                   (4)
	Hanna (3)	Hanna	Dryland 4-H Multi East Sounding Creek 4-H Beef Hanna Rangeland 4-H Multi     (3)
Calgary 9 clubs	Hussar Strathmore (8)	Wheatland County	Arrowwood River Wranglers 4-H Horse Cheadle 4-H Club Crowfoot Multi 4-H Hussar 4-H Club Rockyford 4-H Beef Club Standard 4-H Strathmore 4-H Multi Club Strathmore Rusty Spurs 4-H Horse               (8)
	Strathmore	Rocky view County	Balzac 4-H Beef Club        (1)

FortisAlberta's Community Cares Contest is Back!

 

The 4th Annual Community Cares Contest is on now and runs until June 30^th, 2015.

 

Improve your community, and your club could win $1000!

 2014 will mark the 4th Annual Community Cares Contest.  ALL 4-H Clubs ACROSS ALBERTA are invited to enter the contest, complete a community improvement venture and submit their before/after presentation or "Journey", to pieschel@4hab.com.

 

This contest runs from September 1, 2014 until June 30, 2015. 

Four top prizes will be awarded - $1000 each!

 

For more information, please contact Rae-Lee Pieschel, 4-H Foundation of Alberta, phone: 587.999.2240, email: pieschel@4hab.com or visit: www.4h.ab.ca and check out the "Contest" page. 

3rd Annual FortisAlberta Community Cares Contest Another Great Success

The 2013/2014 FortisAlberta Community Cares Contest was a great success this year! Thanks once again to all the clubs that participated in this year’s contest!

Having clubs donate time to improve local communities has proved to be more important than ever. 4-H Alberta and FortisAlberta truly appreciate the efforts 4-H clubs put into their communities by taking a project on paper and turning it into a true work of art in reality. 

As the contest continues and establishes more ground it has been great to see that every club that participated this year had a new unique idea, and because of their hard work and effort all the communities around them have been improved for the future.

As it reads in the rules of the contest, FortisAlberta picks 4 clubs to receive $1000!

2013-2014 Winners in no particular order are:

·         Borderline 4-H Club for their tree delivery project

·         Bergen Multi Club for their Annual Spring Cleanup

·         Perfect Paws 4-H Club for the High river Bloomers project

·         Golden Prairie 4-H Club for Operation Hummingbird

Congratulations to all the winners and to all the other clubs that participated in the contest!

The 4th Annual Community Cares Contest is on now and runs until June 30^th, 2015. Improve your community, and your club could win $1000!

For more information please contact:

Rae-lee Pieschel, Corporate Partnerships Coordinator, 4-H Foundation of Alberta

Email: pieschel@4hab.com | Phone: 587.999.2240

Congratulations to Erica Bexte, Recipient of the 2013 UFA 4-H Alumni Volunteer Service Award!

In conjunction with National Volunteer Week, UFA Co-operative Limited and 4-H Alberta are pleased to recognize the 2013 recipient of the UFA 4-H Alumni Volunteer Service Award at the UFA Farm & Ranch Supply store in Vulcan, Alberta. 

 

Congratulations to 2013’s recipient, Erica Bexte! Erica was presented with a UFA 4-H Alumni Service Award certificate and received a $2,000 UFA gift certificate in recognition of demonstrating leadership through community involvement and volunteer work.  

 

Erica was recognized at the Vulcan UFA location on Monday, April 7, for her outstanding contributions to the advancement of her local community and her continued commitment to the 4-H Alberta program.

 

This presentation was fitting, as National Volunteer Week works to pay tribute to the millions of Canadian volunteers who generously donate their time and talents to our communities and local nonprofit organizations. Today’s young volunteers are involved and committed to their choice causes more than ever before, and Erica Bexte is a shining example of this promising trend.