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2024 Past Presidents Challenge Final Results

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Thanks to you, we did it!

Thank you for Supporting the 2024 Past Presidents Challenge!

On behalf of the ASABE Foundation, we are delighted to share the incredible results of our 2024 Past Presidents Challenge. Your generosity helped us achieve a remarkable total of $100,000 in NEW donations to advance ASABE’s mission and impact!

With the contributions from the Past Presidents and the Foundation match, we are thrilled to announce a total impact of $154,000 being directed into specific funds that support awards, scholarships, and special projects.

This success was made possible by:

Nearly $23,000 in contributions from our dedicated Past Presidents,
An inspiring $77,000 in new donations from our generous supporters just like you, and
$54,000 in additional matching funds from the ASABE Foundation, amplifying the impact of your contributions.

Thanks to your support, we are better equipped to celebrate excellence, foster innovation, and inspire the next generation of agricultural and biological engineers, with special emphasis on our 2025 funding priorities:

Every gift makes a difference, and we are grateful for your role in this collective achievement. The following chart details how these donations were distributed:

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Case for Support for the ASABE Foundation

Leaders and innovators, agricultural and biological engineers (ABEs) shape the future of our shared environment. Every day, their ideas and advancements address the rising challenges facing humanity. The ASABE Foundation supports ABEs in this critical work by promoting engineering and technology solutions to create a sustainable world with abundant food, water, energy, and a healthy environment.

With your support, the Foundation is in a strong position to truly make a difference across the globe through the support of ASABE initiatives, awards, student design competitions, scholarships, and humanitarian outreach.

Take a moment to learn more about our awards, scholarships, and special projects funds.

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Our mission is to grow and steward relationships and fiscal resources to support innovation for sustainable agricultural, food, water, energy, and environmental systems.

Our vision is of a world where all have the food, water, energy, fiber, and safe environment needed to thrive.

For more than 30 years we've been finding ways to support stakeholders in advancing our shared goals. Join us in this important work!

Why Establish an Endowment?

Support your passion
Make an ongoing impact
Provide a lasting tribute
Magnify the impact of ASABE
"Pay it forward"

ASABE endowments are a permanent and self-sustaining way to inspire, encourage, and create excellence today. Gifts are invested in perpetuity; the real purchasing power of the principal is preserved and maintained through very little overhead and a careful and established investment policy. Create your endowed scholarship, special project, or award with a minimum philanthropic gift of $50,000.

For more information, contact any Foundation Board member or call 269/429-0300.