Compeer Financial’s Fund for Rural America, the giving program of the Farm Credit cooperative, has granted a total of $212,521 through 35 General Use Grants. These grants support initiatives and organizations that enhance agriculture and rural America. The grants will directly impact the lives of 216,800 people as well as touch 3.2 million lives.
Since its start in 2018, the Fund has awarded 402 General Use Grants to community organizations, with a total of over $2.3 million. The Fund will once again offer this grant again in November 2023 to provide funding for 2024.
“The General Use Grant Program makes a difference in the communities where Compeer Financial clients and team members reside and work, reflecting our commitment to enriching agriculture as well as rural America,” said Karen Schieler, Senior Corporate Giving Specialist at Compeer Financial. “Many of the supported groups through this grant initiative will directly benefit farmers, promote agriculture or aid local efforts to address food insecurity. This grant is key to our organization’s dedication to the farmers and communities we serve.”
The General Use Grant Program is supporting 35 organizations within Compeer Financial’s territory, including the following thirteen in Wisconsin:
Wisconsin
- AgrAbility of Wisconsin: enhancing online resources
- American Farmland Trust: helping new farmers access protected agricultural land
- Campus Harvest, UW-Eau Claire: adding a freezer and also trucks for food storage
- Farmers for Sustainable Food: training farmer leaders in media and presentations
- Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin: adding electric pallet truck equipment
- Fondy Food Pantry: New battery-powered pallet trucks
- Good Neighbor Clinic of Sauk Prairie: supporting farm worker care
- New Day Advocacy Center: establishing a healing garden
- Operation HELP: providing farmers market vouchers for low socioeconomic families
- Shepherds Baptist Ministries DBA Shepherds College: teaching skills for independence and horticulture careers to students with IDD
- The Community Table Inc.: Getting supplies for daily meal program
- Western Wisconsin Health, Baldwin Community Hospital: expanding birth center as well as medical surgical units at hospital
- Wisconsin Badger Camp: acquiring manure spreader for improved facilities
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