Transcript Changing roles in a changing World

October 5, 2011
Welcome and Logistics
 Expectations and Updates
 Federal Formula Funds Pre-proposals
 Sharing Ideas and Experiences
 Wrap Up/Final Comments
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Margaret Smith – CUAES
Chris Watkins – CCE
Integrated Program and Research Team
45 formed between 2001 and 2010
 26 known to be currently active
 435 total members in 2010 (ave. 19/PWT)
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– 40% campus-based
– 40% off-campus educators
– 20% stakeholders
October: PWT co-chair meeting
 January 15: Report deadline for previous
fiscal year
 August 1: Cutoff for special funds requests
for current fiscal year
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Stakeholder involvement
– Studying needs and identifying issues
– Highlighting areas needing research
– Creating educational materials and designing
learning experiences
– Many models for how…
Stakeholder involvement
 Annual report!
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– Name of PWT
– Co-chairs names and contact info
– Membership list
– Activities, accomplishments, outcomes, and
impacts
Stakeholder involvement
 Annual report!
 Program Council conference display
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– An opportunity…
– Showcase your work
– Network
Stakeholder involvement
 Annual report!
 Program Council conference display
 PWTs come and go
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– Petition for new PWTs (see web site)
– Sometimes work is done
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Special funds to support PWT activities
– Now up to $2,500
– Request any time (except between August 1
and September 30)
– Bigger project? – consider applying for
Federal Formula Funds
Special funds to support PWT activities
 Special consideration of formula fund
requests that are substantively linked to
an active PWT
 On-going efforts to:
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– Communicate the work of PWTs to the
Program Council
– Simplify/integrate reporting
Deb Grantham – CCE
Mark Schrader – CUAES
Similar to last year
 Open approximately November 2, 2011
 Deadline for submission December 15,
2011
 Reviews begin in late January, 2012
 Decisions underway in March, 2012
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Preference will be given to proposals with
a substantive link to an active PWT, all
other factors being equal
 No guarantees!
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If integrated, objectives, budget and
personnel need to show both Extension and
Research
Application will ask for research and
extension objectives separately &
specifically
Both components need to be substantive
Preference given to Smith-Lever preproposals that include CCE educators (from
counties) in program and budget
All available on submission Web site
along right hand side
 Includes information on allowable
expenses
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Stakeholder Engagement Approaches
 Projects and Activities
 Uses of Special Needs Funding
 What would support and facilitate your
work?
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– Maximizing benefits; minimizing costs
PWT
4-H Science, Engineering, and Technology (SET)
4-H Youth Healthy Lifestyles
Agricultural Community Economic Development
Agricultural Marketing and Management
Aquaculture Development in NY
Climate Change
Community and Energy
Community Forestry
Community-Based Biodiversity and Habitat Conservation
Family and Community Food Decision Making
Family Economics and Resource Management
Greenhouse Horticulture
Integrated Field Crop, Soil, and Pest Management
Managing Wastes: Composting and Land Application
Parenting Education
Poverty and Economic Hardship
Small Farms
Soil Health - Vegetable Production Systems
Sustainable Landscapes - Horticulture
Tree Fruit and Berry
Vegetable Crops
Viticulture and Enology
Watershed-Based Management of Water Resources
2010 Membership Composition
Campus
Off-campus
External
11
11
0
3
18
0
4
12
0
9
8
5
2
1
3
14
7
11
5
8
5
2
2
2
0
0
0
4
10
4
2
10
0
9
14
15
11
9
9
6
5
20
2
12
1
2
4
2
8
4
4
0
0
0
11
25
1
7
5
2
35
23
0
25
11
5
8
6
0
Campus
Off-campus
External
173
177
85
AC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
AC
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PWTs
Inservice
4-H Science, Engineering, and Technology (SET)
Y
4-H Youth Healthy Lifestyles
Y
Agricultural Community Economic Development
Y
Agricultural Marketing and Management
Y
Aquaculture Development in NY
Events
Website
Resources
Appl.
Research
Policy
Education
Curriculum
Y
Curriculum
Collating
Y
Y
Y
Y
Newsletters
Y
Climate Change (new PWT)
Community and Energy
Y
Y
Community Forestry
Y
Community-Based Biodiversity and Habitat Conservation
Y
Family and Community Food Decision Making
Y
Family Economics and Resource Management
Y
Y
Y
Greenhouse Horticulture
Y
Y
Y
Integrated Field Crop, Soil, and Pest Management
Y
Managing Wastes: Composting and Land Application
Y
Parenting Education
Y
Y
Small Farms
Y
Soil Health - Vegetable Production Systems
Y
Sustainable Landscapes - Horticulture
Y
Tree Fruit and Berry
Vegetable Crops
Y
Multiple
Y
Y
Guide
Y
Y
Poverty and Economic Hardship
Multiple
Y
Y
Multiple
Y
Y
Multiple
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Viticulture and Enology
Y
Newsletters
Watershed-Based Management of Water Resources
Y
Multiple
Y
Y
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For what types of projects/activities have
you used Special Needs Funds?