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Think Outside - No Box Required!

  It plants ideas, stimulates conversation, and encourages change for the best.   It unites those who appreciate wild places, value community, and enjoy a good campfire.   It both answers, and invites, questions. It happens just every other year.   It is the California 4-H Camping...

Early Birds - Register for the Camping Conference!

  Are you a 4-H camp leader who loves camp? Well, this is the place to be! On April 3-5, 2020 4-H is hosting the California 4-H Camping Conference for camp leaders to expand their knowledge, enhance their leadership skills and dive into ways to improve their camps. The event will take place at Sly...

What does it mean to be a Director on the California 4-H Management Board?

4-H is operated as a partnership of staff and volunteers (and many of those volunteers are youth members!). Volunteers are critical to the program and 4-H simply couldn't exist without them. The roles we take on as volunteers can vary widely in scope and in how concrete our objectives are. Evaluating at a presentation...

Turning catastrophe into positive: The San Bruno/SSF 4-H Club awarded a grant of $9,100 from the San Bruno Community Foundation.

The Community Grants Fund is funded by a portion of the settlement between Pacific Gas & Electric Company and the City of San Bruno following a 2010 gas pipeline explosion that devastated San Bruno's Crestmoor neighborhood. This annual grant fund supports new and existing programs that benefit the San Bruno community....

"Bells of Paradise" for Camp Fire survivors: Healing the community through music

  In November 2018, the worst fire in California history, the Camp Fire, devastated the towns of Paradise, Magalia, Pulga, and Concow. Over 13,000 homes were destroyed and 85 people died. From the first day of the tragedy, our local Butte County 4-H members were involved in responding to this community crisis in many...

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