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This spring the Biodynamic Association has once again been blessed to receive a $10,000 challenge grant from a generous donor. With your help and their help we would like to keep the healing impulse of biodynamics spreading through the world. 

Over the past year, we have been busy creating opportunities where those whose lives have been touched by the spirit of biodynamics can meet, share, teach, learn and collaborate. Can you help us continue this work and the amazing momentum it is creating for biodynamics in the world? All gifts will be matched dollar for dollar up to $10,000!

We are always looking for new stories and articles to share on the biodynamics blog. Want to write something for the broader biodynamic community? We'd love to hear your creative ideas! Please contact our Communications Coordinator, Rebecca Briggs at rebecca@biodynamics.com.

Each year, NYFC's Bootstrap Blog follows farmers in their first season or two of starting a new farm business. It's one of our most popular features and we think it's a critical platform for highlighting and recruiting the next generation of farmers and ranchers. Check out last year's posts at the Bootstrap Blogger hub here. 

This year we're looking for three farmers or ranchers (of any kind!) to write monthly for our blog in 2014. Farmers will receive a stipend for their writing and the Bootstrap Coordinator will work with farmers each month on content and editing before posts are published. 

To apply, please submit a short (300-500 word) farmer profile (with pictures!) of your operation. Please include an overview of the type and scale of your operation, your farming experience, the mission and vision driving your farm, and plans for the future. Your farmer profile, regardless of selection for the Bootstrap Blog, may be featured as a Farm Profile on the regular NYFC blog! 

Submit applications and questions to Wes at wes@youngfarmers.org. 

Eisenhower Fellowships, the premier international leadership organization chaired by General Colin L. Powell, USA (Ret), is seeking active farmers or ranchers to take part in a unique international opportunity.  

Since 1993, Eisenhower Fellowships has welcomed 23 farmers and ranchers into its international network of more than 2,000 leaders from all sectors across the globe.  The successful applicants receive a custom-designed program overseas for five weeks in one or two countries where he or she will explore agricultural issues in order to enhance their own leadership capabilities in the field of agriculture.  In addition to the overseas program, they will attend an orientation as well as a closing seminar in Philadelphia, with a group of 35 Eisenhower Fellows from the US and throughout the world.

Learn more on the Eisenhower Foundation website.