A gift to your UF/IFAS Extension office results in positive change that you can see in your own community, including 4-H programs for youth, lawn and garden support from local Master Gardener Volunteers, tools and resources for local growers, improved natural resource conservation strategies, healthy living skills for families in nutrition and finances, and much more.

When you give a gift to Florida 4-H, you help reach more than 200,000 young people statewide. From agriculture to art, civic engagement to healthy living, and photography to robotics, 4-H’ers discover their potential and become the leaders we need now more than ever.

Florida 4-H Youth Development Challenge

Your gift to 4-H will also help unlock additional scholarships for youth to attend summer 2023 4-H leadership programs. For every 40 gifts, the Florida 4-H Foundation is unlocking $400 in scholarship funds.

4-H camping is where youth discover new passions, strengthen their independence and connect with their peers to be effective team members and develop as leaders. Your gift will help improve facilities and resources for kids at Florida’s 4-H camps this summer.

• 4-H Camp Cherry Lake–Madison
• 4-H Camp Cloverleaf—Lake Placid
• 4-H Camp Timpoochee–Niceville

Project Learning Tree (PLT) is an award-winning education program that uses the study of forests and trees to increase children’s understanding of the environment and the actions they can take to conserve it. In Florida, PLT is an Extension program of the UF/IFAS School of Forest, Fisheries and Geomatics Sciences.

Langdale Challenge for Florida PLT

The Langdale Company is proud to support Project Learning Tree and is matching gifts up to $2,000 total.

Gifts to this fund go to the Extension Internship Program, a collaboration with the UF/IFAS College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) and part of Senior VP Scott Angle’s promise to enrich the educational opportunities for CALS students.

Jimmy & Benita Boyd Challenge for Extension Internships

Jimmy Boyd and Benita Boyd will match all gifts to the Extension Internship Program up to $3,000 to double your impact for student interns in 2023.

What do school gardens, honeybee demonstrations, and an agriculture history garden have in common? They are all Master Gardener Volunteer projects funded by the MGV Legacy Award! This program recognizes county Master Gardener Volunteer groups with support for new or continuing educational projects. Your gift grows the funding available for more of these outstanding community projects for years to come.

For more than 20 years, the Florida Master Naturalist Program (FMNP) has promoted awareness, understanding and respect for Florida’s natural world. Extension-trained Florida Master Naturalists share their knowledge and foster principles of respect for our natural world. Your gift will help to train more Master Naturalists, develop curriculum resources and protect natural Florida through education.

GLOBAL FOOD SYSTEMS INSTITUTE

The Global Food Systems Institute (GFSI) Food and Nutrition Security Fund supports activities that improve the availability, affordability, and accessibility of nutrient-rich foods to vulnerable people in low- and middle-income countries, particularly pregnant and lactating women and children. Your gift can feed a mother 2 eggs a day for her child’s first thousand days or provide a student with a travel scholarship to gain first-hand experience about global hunger, food, and nutrition insecurity in low- and middle-income countries.

Karl E. Havens served as director of Florida Sea Grant from 2007 until his unexpected passing in 2019. A professor of aquatic ecology at the University of Florida, Karl was a leading international expert on aquatic research, management, education and outreach.

Your gift will help to permanently endow this fund in Karl’s memory and fuel Florida Sea Grant’s continued work to better understand and protect our most precious resources – our water, coastlines and ecosystems.

If you just want to show your support for UF/IFAS, you can give to the IFAS unrestricted fund. UF/IFAS is committed to advancing science for 20 million Floridians and beyond. Training the next generation, assisting communities in the wake of natural disasters, protecting water resources and fighting citrus greening are just a few of the ways UF/IFAS is making a difference. Your gift to UF/IFAS provides critical resources to help us keep making a difference.