2021 Hall of Fame
Each year MAFE inducts outstanding individuals into our Hall of Fame. Click the link below to find out more about these exceptional group.
CLICK HERE to view the MAFE Hall of Fame brochure
2020 Year End Report
Materials to file fair year end of year reports for 2020 are now available. Click here to view all the documents in Google Drive. (to download a document, click on it and then select the arrow in the top right hand side)
If you have questions please contact Cinda Karlik at 517-284-5723 or karlikc@michigan.gov.
120 Day Report documents
Materials to file fair end of year reports for 2020 are now available. Click here to view all the documents in Google Drive. (to download a document, click on it and then select the arrow in the top right hand side)
If you have questions please contact Cinda Karlik at 517-290-8114 or karlikc@michigan.gov.
MAFE Fair/Festival Scholarship Application
Again this year MAFE will be giving away six (6) $1,000 scholarships to outstanding youth involved in the Michigan fair industry.
- Each year six (6) scholarships of $1,000 may be awarded, one being the Neil Kentner memorial scholarship.
- Scholarship is open to applicants that are high school seniors or currently enrolled in an institution of advance learning such as a […]
Communication Awards
Be sure to fill out the forms for the 20th Annual MAFE Communications Awards Contest (Please note these documents are housed in Google Docs. Click on the arrow in the top right hand side to download or the printer icon to print the document)
Associate member communication awards application
Fair and Festival communications awards application
Entries are due November 15, 2020
Associate member scholarship program
The Michigan Association of Fairs & Exhibitions is proud to announce a new scholarship program for youths involved with a current associate member.
2020 MAFE Associate Scholarship application (Please note this scholarship is not open to fair exhibitors. If you are a youth fair exhibitor, please visit the MAFE Fair/Festival scholarship page)
- Each year one (1) scholarship of $1,000 may be awarded specially for youths involved with a current MAFE Associate member. […]
Governor and MDARD Director Letter
Below are links to the 2020 letters from Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Michigan Department of Agriculture & Rural Development Director Gary McDowell. All fairs should feel free to use these for their communication efforts.
2020 MAFE Scholarship winners
Congratulations to the MAFE scholarship winners! Each year MAFE awards five (5) $1,000 scholarships to outstanding youth involved in the Michigan fair industry. This year we received more than 90 outstanding applications.
MAFE was given the opportunity to award a sixth scholarship through a donation by the Great Lakes Ag Fair. This special award has been named the Neil Kentner memorial scholarship and will be given to one youth annually.
Scholarship recipients are:
Awianna Jackson, Shiawassee County Fair; […]
OFFICIAL SWINE ID NUES TAGS 2020
For the 2020 fair and exhibition season, MDARD will continue its policy of distributing official swine ID NUES tags to fairs, free of charge, for use with exhibition swine. Swine tags can still be ordered over the phone or through email; however, we encourage fairs to place their orders by December 16, 2019. Fairs that have ordered their tags can pick them up on January 9-10 in the MDARD Resource Center at the annual MAFE convention in Grand Rapids.
To […]