Giving Back
As your locally owned cooperative, ALCIVIA supports the sustainable development of the communities and families we service, with programs designed to foster agricultural leadership, education, safety, and ending hunger.
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Scholarships
To encourage academic, professional, and leadership development among post-secondary students, ALCIVIA awards 25 scholarships of $1,000 each, to students pursuing a two- or four-year degree, agriculture short course students, and/or high school seniors each year. All active ALCIVIA members, employees, and their children are eligible to apply.
We have awarded more than 900 scholarships totaling more than $465,850 to students since 1989. Building a strong future for agriculture helps ensure a strong future for our members, our communities, and the world.
Our 2025 scholarship application is now open! Applications are due by January 31, 2025. Please email scholarship@ALCIVIA.com with any questions.
- ENDING HUNGER
ALCIVIA supports the efforts of local food pantries and other organizations to end hunger in the communities across our trade territory. Over the past decade, we’ve partnered with food banks like Second Harvest to provide more than 322,000 meals to local food pantries. ALCIVIA employees have volunteered during their busy holiday season sorting food and prepping deliveries. We’re also pleased to provide funding to local summer and weekend ‘backpack’ programs where kids receive food to take home for the weekend or get lunch during the summer in a local park.
- FAIR PARTICIPATION
ALCIVIA provides a $100 participation award for small livestock (rabbits, chickens, turkeys) and $150 participation award for large livestock (beef, dairy, hogs, sheep, goats, horses) to any youth participant that showed an animal at a local fair and whose family is a member of our cooperative. Since we started the program in 2018, we’ve supported more than 1,700 fair projects totaling over $180,000 back to the youth. Applications are now open! Email marketing@ALCIVIA.com with any questions.
- PROMOTING A ‘SAFETY FIRST’ CULTURE
ALCIVIA prides itself on fostering a safe working environment that expands into the communities we serve. Ongoing efforts will be made to support local safety organizations such as police, fire departments, EMS responders, and others to keep our communities safe.
- PROMOTING AGRICULTURE AND RURAL YOUTH LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
ALCIVIA provides support to those members, communities, and organizations that seek to promote a positive image of the agricultural industry, promote youth leadership development and ag education, including FFA, 4-H and Ag in the Classroom, dairy breakfasts, county fairs and farm tours.
promoting a 'safety first' culture
Community Safety
Safety is non-negotiable at ALCIVIA. This past year we invested nearly $25,000 to enhance safety operations for local first responders, EMS, fire and police departments, and more. We supported projects for new life-saving equipment at local departments, including the Cottage Grove Fire Department.
The department needed a new Jaws of Life system and with matching partner funds, we were able to triple our donation for that project.
ALCIVIA takes safety of our members, customers, employees, and communities seriously and wants everyone to go home safety to their families each night. Contributions like these allow us to assist in that effort.
Fair Participation Award
ALCIVIA is proud to provide a $100 fair participation award for small livestock (rabbits and poultry) and a $150 participation award for large livestock (beef, dairy, hogs, sheep, goats, horses) to any youth participant that showed an animal at a local fair and whose family is a member of our cooperative.
Submissions for the 2024 fair participation award are now closed. Submissions will reopen in June of 2025.
Email marketing@ALCIVIA.com with any questions.