Empowering Community Leaders

The Pendleton County Family Consumer Sciences Agent provides leadership to Extension Homemakers, who conduct community-service projects and offer educational leadership. In 2010-2011, volunteer service hours were valued at $20.25 per hour, with Pendleton Homemakers reporting 51,883.5 hours for Extension, civic, church, school, and other organizations, a value of $1,050,641 in intangible revenue. This was a 10,000-hour increase over the previous year. 58 Homemakers held office at state, county, area and/or club level, and 43 reported holding office in other groups using leadership training gained through Extension training. Leaders support ten local clubs and several community-service projects. Two significant projects are cancer support and "Recipe for Life," a cooking and nutrition program for youth.

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