Fiscal Intermediary (FI) must be available to assist individuals in exercising budget authority. Individuals can perform some or all of the FI functions themselves. Typically, however, individuals prefer that the FI entity performs these functions for them. FI helps individuals:
88% of FFA members are in grades 9-12; 7% are in middle school; 5% are high school graduates. 70% of FFA members live in rural/farm areas; 19% live in small towns; 10% live in urban/suburban areas. FFA chapters are in 18 of the 20 largest U.S. cities, including New York, Chicago and Philadelphia.
For example, many urban dwellers in Africa live in cities of fewer than 10,000 residents. In Argentina, 92 percent of the 2007 population was urban, and 32 percent of these people lived in just one city, Buenos Aires.