ACN PIF Grants Awarded

December 9, 2025
By Katie Dehlinger, ACN PIF chair

The ACN Professional Improvement Association Board of Trustees met in November and are pleased to announce the following grant recipients. 

  • Agricultural Communications Network (ACN) new website
  • Ag Media Summit speakers
  • Future Ag Communicators scholarships
  • ACN Judges for communications contest: 
  • IFAJ stipends
  • ACN Diversity committee’s HBCU outreach for AMS
  • ACN International Chair stipend for IFAJ mid-year meeting
  • ACN Regional meetings

The Professional Improvement Foundation (PIF) is a member-directed non-profit organization that provides funding, direction and input for a wide variety of programs and activities that benefit ACN members and helps advance the agricultural communications profession.Learn more here.

Dehlinger is the Farm Business Editor at DTN/Progressive Farmer