Importance of Alumni
Why start an alumni affiliate? Your FFA alumni affiliate can be a wonderful resource of support for FFA advisors, servings as mentors for FFA members, advocates for agricultural education, identifying funding opportunities, helping to prepare teams for competition and much more. To learn more about starting your own alumni affiliate visit www.ffa.org/alumni.
Membership in the Minnesota and National FFA Alumni organizations makes is possible for students from your local FFA chapter to qualify for Washington Leadership Conference and state leadership camp scholarships.
Member affiliates are eligible to apply for National FFA Alumni grants and the new Minnesota affiliate grants. In addition, you are supporting the effort to expand the number of alumni affiliates in the state and continue valuable activities such as the Minnesota FFA Hall of Fame, the FFA Alumni Association Annual Meeting, state awards programs and the Stop-n-Shop at state convention.
One Goal of the Minnesota FFA Alumni Association is for there to be an Alumni Chapter for every FFA program in Minnesota.
If you are interested in starting a chapter in your area contact any board member for help in getting one started.
Below find useful information to get you started.
There is also very useful information on the National FFA Alumni site such as
www.ffa.org/documents/alum_indexcardactivity.pdf
www.ffa.org/documents/alum_sixwordstory.pdf