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KARL receives $10,000 Farm Credit grantKansas Fall is looking better for the Kansas Agriculture and Rural Leadership Program thanks to a $10,000 grant from the Farm Credit System Foundation Douglas D. Sims Fund for Rural Leadership. The Farm Credit System Foundation's (Foundation) primary mission is to assist young, beginning, and small farmers and ranchers to thrive as businesspersons in their local and the global agricultural marketplaces. According to John J. Hays, director of the foundation, the grant is a result of a $1 million donation to the foundation by CoBank, headquartered in Denver. This contribution created the Douglas D. Sims Fund for Rural Leadership. The money recognizes Sims' 37 years of dedication to the Farm Credit System and rural America. Sims recently retired as CoBank¥s Chief Executive Officer, he said. The CoBank donation is earmarked for programs that focus on the development of rural leaders, particularly those who are committed to making their communities better places to live. Grants of up to $10,000 were awarded to organizations that meet the program criteria. "The contribution from the Simms foundation helps attract other capable donors to endorse and the KARL Program," according to Jack W. Lindquist, KARL, Inc. president and program director. "The KARL Program builds ethical, sound leadership for the future of the agricultural industry and our rural Kansas communities." Since the first class was formed in 1991, KARL has helped 300 Kansans from 95 Kansas counties improve their leadership skills. Each two-year class is together for 52 days of training, activities and tours.KARL participants attend nine in-state seminars; a one-week study tour to Washington, D.C.; a three-day Blue Chip Seminar to an internationally-recognized corporation; and a 12-day international study seminar. The current class will visit CHS, a Fortune 200 diversified energy, grains and food company in Inver Grove Heights, Minn., to study strategic corporate management this year and will travel to Vietnam in 2011 for their international study tour. The two-year tuition fee for each adult student is $3,000 for the Class X offering, now being conducted in the 2009-2011 program cycle. Individuals, businesses, organizations, foundations and corporations donate the remaining fellowship of $13,000 per person covering all expenses including the travel seminars. KARL's offices are located at Kansas State University through an in-kind gift of office space and access to services. For more information, interested persons can visit the website at www.karlprogram.com or may call the office at 785- 532-6300.
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