Four National FFA corporate partners will be honored with the Distinguished Service Citation during the National FFA Convention & Expo in Indianapolis, Oct. 23-26.
Ball Horticultural Company, Blue Diamond, Domino’s and Wrangler will be celebrated during an onstage ceremony on Friday, Oct. 25, this year during the event.
For over a decade, Ball Horticultural Company has partnered with the National FFA Organization in the floriculture career development event. Along with supplying materials for members to use during the event, they allow employees to take time away from the office to judge events. They have also created informative, creative, informative growing procedure videos to provide invaluable instruction to participants. Their dedication ensures that the floriculture career development meets industry standards.
Since 2017, Blue Diamond Growers has played a crucial role in amplifying the impact of the organization’s Give the Gift of Blue Program. They have donated more than $175,000 in matching funds while gaining support from growers, industry leaders, alums and others, encouraging widespread commitment to the initiative. This support network has resulted in California FFA being able to give more than 5,000 FFA Blue Jackets through the program.
Domino’s Pizza LLC joined FFA as a corporate sponsor in 2017 and has continued to make a difference in the lives of our members. They played an active role at the CEO roundtable and serve on the National FFA Foundation Sponsors’ board. As well as, host annual visits with the National Officer teams. In addition, the company engages at the local, state and national level through various programs, and supports the National FFA scholarship program as well.
Over the past three years, Wrangler has transformed their relations with FFA by giving back more to the organization while leveraging their partnerships with their celebrity line-up. Most recently, they connected with Trace Adkins to promote Give FFA Day and then connected FFA with Kendra Scott to collaborate on the Yellow Rose collection. In addition, they have worked on leveraging their media communications team to continue to promote National FFA.
The National FFA Organization is a school-based national youth leadership development organization of more than 1,027,200 student members as part of 9,235 local FFA chapters in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
***Courtesy of Kristy Meyer, National FFA Organization***
