Archives: History Timeline

ND FFA Foundation Board of Directors approves Abovo contract to retain their services.  

ND FFA Foundation Board of Directors appoints Tommy Winders as Executive Director.

  Tommy Winders selected to serve as ND FFA Foundation’s Sponsor and Program Coordinator. Andrew Young appointed as Interim Executive Director  

The Butch and Diane Hougland Family named the 2019 ND FFA Friend of the Foundation.  

Tam Maddock resigns as Executive Director.  Thomas Winders is hired as the Foundation’s first Sponsor and Program Coordinator.

The FFA Student Handbook is given to every chapter across North Dakota.  It is used and given to every incoming FFA member.  Thank you, Farm Credit Services!

Doug Vannurden named 2018 ND FFA Foundation Friend of the Foundation.

Bruce Bachmeier named 2017 ND FFA Foundation Friend of the Foundation.

Andrew Young named as the replacement as the Foundation’s Assistant Director (previously Tamra Maddock).

Beth Bakke-Stenehjem resigns from position as Executive Director and Tamra Maddock named as the replacement.

Steve Zimmerman named 2016 ND FFA Foundation Friend of the Foundation.

Bryan Strom named 2014 ND FFA Foundation Friend of the Foundation.

More than 250 jackets were given out through the Blue Jackets Bright Futures Program to new members.

Beth Allen hired as the Foundation’s part-time Fiscal Manager.

Joel Janke named the first ND FFA Foundation Friend of the Foundation.

Tam Maddock is named the Foundation’s first Assistant Director.

The ND FFA Foundation office moved to 909 Basin Avenue in Bismarck.

The Blue Jackets Bright Futures program is born, providing jackets to young FFA members. Forty-seven members received jackets at the State FFA Convention.

The inaugural issue of the ND FFA Foundation Newsletter is sent to donors and supporters.

Bev Janke retires from the ND FFA Foundation and Beth Bakke-Stenehjem named as the new Executive Director.

The ND FFA Alumni and FFA Foundation hold their first annual auction during the ND State Fair.

$1 from each ND FFA member’s dues donated to the ND FFA Foundation.

Joel Janke launches the Foundation and his wife Bev Janke serves as its first Executive Director.

“Learning to Do, Doing to Learn, Earning to Live, Living to Serve.” This is the FFA motto and no one exemplifies it more than Mr. Fridtjov Bakk. It was the …