Whether you’re a leader, member, or volunteer - our growing list of helpful club resources, links, and guidelines will help you engage with any group. Have a link or resource you think would be a great addition to our list? Email us at SomersetCounty4H@co.somerset.nj.us.

Each club offers at least one monthly business meeting plus additional (optional) activities. The members with officer jobs (club president, VP, secretary, treasurer, reporter, ...) conduct the meeting - with the help of the adult club leaders.

To help conduct each meeting, please see these documents below on the standard format of club meetings:

• Meeting Script

• Order of Business

• Voting at Club Meetings

These are forms you will need throughout the year. These forms include:

• Youth Permission Forms

• Adult Event Forms

• Member Registration Forms

• Additional Leader/Volunteer Forms

  *Note: If you prefer to sign these PDF forms digitally, please download them and open in Adobe Acrobat. Otherwise, please print out and sign by hand.

This section includes policy documents with important information club leaders should be aware of.

• NJ 4-H Leader Training Series

• Protection of Minors Policy

• Guide to Working with Minors

• 4-H Code of Conduct

• Club Treasury and Fundraising Policy

This section includes information for club member awards and leader nominated awards.

• Scholarships & Awards Opportunities

Here are some useful tools to help promote club events or happenings, create flyers and promotional materials for your club, or just to share what your club has been up to during the 4-H year.

• National 4-H Website

  Access all kinds of marketing toolkits, images, and logo assets by creating a free account on the National 4-H website.

• Canva.com
  Great tool to create flyers, posters, presentations and more. Free account is all you need. Once you design something for distribution to the public, please send it to your office liaison for approval before distributing.

• Spotlight On Blog & Social Media

  What has your club been up to? We are always looking for club reports and photos for our website, blogs, and social media. If you have a request for something to be featured on our pages, please get in touch with us at SomersetCounty4H@co.somerset.nj.us.

• Flyers

  When creating a flyer for your club/club event, be descriptive, specific, and creative! Remember to put all details such as the date/time, address, cost (if any), and contact info/important links. To get some ideas please see this example flyer below!

• Logos & Indicia

  • 4-H Clover PNG

  PLEASE NOTE - The 4-H Clover has very specific guidelines and terms of use to adhere to. Please refer to this document to make sure the Clover is being used properly in your project.

  • Somerset County 4-H Logos: (full color) (black) (white)

    **Logo font is called ‘Open Sans’

  • Rutgers Logo

  • Rutgers Cooperative Extension Indicia

  
  

Here are some resources for interactive engagement of club members, consisting of educational games and quiz tools:

• kahoot.it
  Fun online tool for quiz bowls, game nights, or just for fun at the club meetings (to engage members, learn and have a great time together).

• blooket.com

  This game or quiz tool is similar to kahoot but includes different ways to play which can make it even more fun. No account needed to play. Many games and quizzes available, or set up your own.