Agent Sharing-Revenue Generation Strategies
Local Unit Administrative Updates – Spring 2015
Charge registration fees for workshops, services, and programs.
Add some additional dollars to registrations beyond the actual cost of the event.
Charge for Farm Bill consultations
Charge for soil samples and feed samples.
Charge businesses for Serv -Safe classes.
“Round up” the cost of “for sale” publications and other items such as radon test
kits. For example – kits cost $5.00. Charge the public $8.00.
Recover the cost of private applicator books.
Charge for Walk Kansas and shirts.
Charge for summer school nutrition classes.
Charge for Master Gardener garden tour.
Master Gardeners are charge $100 to participate.
Don’t order as many publications, print as needed.
Charge the fair board for printing the fair book.
Bus tour generates funds.
Form a district.
Charge for use of gas for county vehicle for 4-H trips.
4-H Carnival
Food auction and bake sale at county fair to help raise funds for 4-H program.
Challenge gift to encourage others to support/community fund account.
Charge 4-H clubs for members CCS project materials.
Each 4-H family gives a pledge.
1 We shopped for our audit and saved $2,000 per year.
Reduced office hours to 35 hours and saved enough to cover our cuts.
No mail - use email or text to send out newsletters and other communications.
Shop around for insurance.
Ask for donations:
Free will donations for meals-FCE & 4-H fundraiser
Community donations
Supplies and gift cards to support targeted program efforts
Memorial Funds to 4-H council
Donations for livestock show
Donation jar for meals and Medicare consultations
Ask companies associated with products we use for school enrichment
programs to donate materials or for money for us to purchase
Collect donated items and keep until needed
We work closely with out Kansas Crossroads Resource Conservation and
Development area Inc who will administer our 501(c)3 funds for no overhead.
Recruit sponsorships
Not only for programs but for advertising
Get enough sponsors to cover the cost of the meeting and then charge
everyone that attends
Ask local, state and national ag producer associations to sponsor
extension events, including board meeting meals
Local banks and businesses
Give sponsorship acknowledgement on our website, Facebook page, and
newsletter
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Sell agent time to the state
2 We charge outside organizations a fee to using our marquee/electronic sign.
A 4-H club does the meal and keeps the money. It is rotated to different clubs
that want to do it, which works easy for agent as there are no worries about the
meal.
Co-operate with other groups to share the total cost of an event.
Partnerships: provide nutrition education for other groups who have funding or
supplies (i.e. farmers market demos)
Sharing resources with neighboring offices – ex – travel together.
Work with other counties/districts or other agencies to put on programs and
share costs.
Put together a group of local outdoorsmen to start a committee to do a banquet
fundraiser
Grants
o Court Diversion Fund
o Tractor Supply Clover Fund
o Establish and extension foundation for donations and gifts
o Match educational program to a grant revenue source
o 4-H Grants
o Recreation Commission
o Day Camp Grants
o Dane G. Hansen
o Heritage Foundation
o Walmart
o FNP Grant: 14
 Big revenue generation for us. At just under 10% of our total budget
we really try to take good care of that
o TBI- Traumatic Brain injury
o Federal Rural Grocery Store
o SHICK
o Health Coalition
o Hillsborp Community Foundation
o Caroline Peine Foundation
o OMK Grant
o Kansas Health Foundation
o Fed Summer Feeding Program
o Kansas Community Garden Grant
o KS Volunteer Assn
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o Nominated community for Blue CHIP award from Blue Cross Blue Shield
and Kansas Parks and Recreation Association
 Portion of the award will support Extension Awards
o Grow 4-H grant
o Smaller 4-H & community garden grants
o Grants from South Central Community Foundation for 4-H sewing project
o 1st generation 4-H families interns
o Kansas Humanities Council : speakers
o Nex-Tech
o Western Cooperative Electric
o Midwest Energy
o Use grant to provide free soil tests to residents: granter reimburses office
for up to 1000 tests.
o NRA Foundation Grant for Shooting Sports
o Professional Organization Grants
o Local Travel & Tourism Grant
o Sales Tax Grants: Total responses 2
o Community Foundation Grants: Total Responses 4
o Local 4-H Foundation
 Receives some grant money when applied for some 4-H
enrichment program supplies
 Western KS foundation
 Finnup Grants
o Farm Bureau
o ADM support of youth ag safety
o NRCS
o Write in 10% overview to grants for administration of the grant.
o SC Foundation Health Care Grant
o United Way of Greater Topeka :VITA
o Soroptomists : Feeding Families
o Kansas 4-H Foundation: SPIN clubs
o Philllips Lighting
o Cargill
o Agait Scholarships
o Monsanto
o Gove County Economic Development Fund
o Trego County 4-H Development Fund
Dupont & Pioneer seeds
Eliminated fax machine
Work with County Commissioners to help achieve their goals
Personnel turnover has lent to increase in our capital outlay fund.
4 Act like $ is your own. Spend as needed, not consistently for “wants”
Price matching/couponing for food supplies for programs/board meetings
Working with staff to gather information about the dollar value of in-kind
donations. This information will be used with county commissioners.
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