Grange Program Utilization

Contests (items)

• Currently– 4 photo categories

– Allowing for 4 entries per person

– 4 baking categories• 3/4 divisions within those categories• 4 age groups

– Allowing for a max of 13 entries per person

– 13 craft categories– Allowing for 13 entries per person

– 4 art categories– Allowing for 4 categories per person

Prize Money

• Photo Money $1160• Baking Money $3120• Craft Money $3770• Art Money $1160

•$9210

Arcadia

Beaufort County

Beech Mountain

Brogden

Bushy Fork

Cape Fear

CapitolClay County

Corriher

Down East

Edneyville

Ferguson

Gate CityGrantham

GreenwoodGuilfordJuniperLittle MountainMatrimonyNahuntaOaklandOld Richmond

PattersonPino

Queen CityRandolph Eastern

RangerRockingham County

Schley

Southern Wake

St. Johns

Summerfield

Taylor's Bridge

Trinity

TroutmanUnion Grove WestbrookGranges by Membership

Arcadia Beech Mtn

Bushy Fork

Cape Fear

Edneyville

Grantham

Patterson

Queen City

St Johns

Summerfield

Troutman

Westbrook

Baking

Arcadia

Beech Mountain

Bushy Fork

Edneyville

Grantham

Southern Wake

St Johns

Summerfield

Troutman

Art

12 Granges entered190 Entries, 43 people30.1% of Granges represented

9 Granges entered 144 entries by 41 people23% of Granges represented

Over a 3 year period

ArcadiaBeaufort Co

Beech Mtn

Bushy Fork

CapitolCorriher

Edneyville

GranthamPatterson Queen City

Southern Wake

St Johns

Summerfield

Troutman

Westbrook

Photo

Arcadia

Beech Mtn

Bushy Fork

Cape Fear

CorriherEdneyville

Grantham

GuilfordPatterson

Queen City

St Johns

Troutman

Westbrook

Crafts

11 Granges entered86 people entered 277 photos28.2% of Granges represented

13 Granges entered298 entries, 85 people33.33% of Granges represented

Over a 3 year period

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Granger Awards

• Granger of the Year• Family of the Year• Grange Farm of the Year• Grange of the Year• Youth Granger of the Year• Junior Granger of the

Year• Junior Grange of the Year• Grange Month

• Recruiter of the Year• Secretary of the Year• Community Service• Legislative Director of the

Year• Family Living Director of

the Year• Program Director of the

Year $3175

Community Awards

• Church of the Year• Educator of the Year• Fire Department of the Year• Rescue Squad of the Year• Firefighter of the Year• Rescue Personnel of the Year• Law Enforcement Officer of the Year• Military Personnel of the Year

$1750

Westbrook

Edneyville

TroutmanCape Fear

Grantham

Arcadia

St Johns

CorriherSummerfield

Queen City PattersonGranges who entered notebooks

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2013 Notebooks

Notebooks

The most popular category: Community Service, and only 10 entries were had…. Only 25% of North Carolina’s Granges.

• $14,240 in prize money available• $11,305 awarded in 2013

– $2,935 not awarded because of no entries

Distinguished Granges

• Started in 2009• 3 NC Granges recognized in 2013– Cape Fear, Grantham, Troutman

• 2 NC Granges recognized in 2012– Cape Fear, Grantham

To Enter:

• Fill out entry form by August 15, 2014• For work done July 1, 2013- June 30, 2014• Distinguished Grange form is nearly identical

to the NC Grange of the Year form– Was done to encourage entry in both awards

easily!

– Copies of both available