Sunray, Texas – Stephanie Crownover of Sunray, Texas has been selected as a winner in the America’s Farmers Grow CommunitiesSM program, which gives farmers the opportunity to win $2,500 for their favorite local nonprofit organizations. The Monsanto Fund, the philanthropic arm of Monsanto, sponsors the program, and winning farmers designate a local nonprofit organization to benefit from the donations. Crownover has designated the Sunray FFA to receive the donation.
Crownover says she is very excited to have been selected as the winner for Moore County. “This is a great program. Alfredo Rodriguez, the FFA advisor, tried to get us to sign up for the Grow Communities program, but we already had. I know the FFA will put the money the good use.”
Alfredo Rodriguez, Sunray FFA advisor, says, “I think it's great that we were chosen. Monsanto Fund and Stephanie are really helping our chapter.”
The $2,500 donation was awarded at a ceremony held at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 22 at Sunray High School in celebration of National FFA Week.
In more than 1,200 eligible counties, farmers can win $2,500 for their favorite community non-profit. The Monsanto Fund expects to invest more than $3 million in local communities. The program originated with two pilot programs. The first pilot included 139 counties in Iowa , Missouri and Arkansas . The second pilot was expanded to include 298 counties in California , Kansas , Nebraska , North Carolina , Ohio , South Carolina and South Dakota . In total, more than $172,000 will be donated to nonprofits in Texas.
The America ’s Farmers Grow Communities program is part of a broad commitment by Monsanto Fund to highlight the important contributions farmers make every day to our society by helping them grow their local communities. To date, more than 60,000 farmers participated in the program, which is designed to benefit nonprofit groups such as ag youth, schools and other civic organizations. Visit www.growcommunities.com to view a complete list of winners.
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