| Illinois 4-H

Find Your Spark

4-H empowers young people to dream about better tomorrows and gives them the tools to reach it.

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What is 4-H

Empowering Youth with skills to lead for a lifetime

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How We Do It

Putting research into practice to transform lives

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Clubs

You'll never feel more at home than at your 4-H club. Wherever you live, there’s a 4-H program where you can explore new things, meet new friends, and change the world. Find your place in 4-H.

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Programs

Discover ways you can save the world. Feed the hungry, Protect the environment, Speak up for others. Change the world as you change yourself.

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Projects

4-H makes learning fun! You pick your adventure. There are caring adults ready to help you explore and grow. Nothing is too hard in 4-H.

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Resources

Find new member resources, meeting resources, parent resources and more!

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Cloverbuds

4-H Cloverbud Clubs are for younger children aged 5 to 7. During club meetings, youth work as a group on projects perfect for their age!

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Teen Leadership

4-H empowers young people to be true leaders. True leaders are young people who have confidence; know how to work well with others; can endure through challenges; and will stick to a job until it gets done.

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Upcoming Events

Explore 4-H: Fun with Food Science

Feb 16

State Horse Judging Contest

Black Hawk College East Campus

Feb 18

Tell Your 4-H Story! Join the Speaking for Illinois 4-H Team

Feb 20

State 4-H Dairy Quiz Bowl

Chateau Hotel, Bloomington

Feb 25

2023 4-H Shooting Sports Leader Training: Feb 25

Kane County Fairgrounds

Feb 25

4-H By the Decades 1980s

Zoom

Feb 28

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Find Your Spark

4-H offers so many opportunities from which to choose. Find the path that makes sense for you … and then Start Your Journey

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Empowering Youth for Success

As a 4-H volunteer, you can share your skills and experience to help transform a new generation of confident, young leaders. This is your chance to make a change, to be the spark that inspires a generation.

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Build a Better World

Illinois 4-H prepares youth to solve Illinois' problems by producing the leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs, stewards, and builders we need. 4-H builds good leaders by giving them safe environments to practice all the skills needed to be successful leaders. Illinois 4-H knows that our very lives are inseparable from the health of our planet and work daily to save the world for this and future generations.