Impact Collaborative program combines creative entrepreneurial methodology with Cooperative Extension best practices to incubate program/project teams to create a measurable and visible local impact.
Attributions | 2 |
Extension Climate & Extreme Weather Programming: Successes, Challenges & Opportunities | 2 |
Executive Summary | 4 |
Introduction | 6 |
Background | 6 |
Climate Change & Extreme Weather in the U.S. Context | 6 |
A Push for Climate & Extreme Weather Programming in Extension | 7 |
Project Drawdown | 10 |
Project Overview | 12 |
Research Objectives | 12 |
Plan of Work | 12 |
Methods | 12 |
Quantitative Program Inventory | 13 |
Qualitative Interviews with ‘Early Adopters’ | 14 |
Quantitative Results: Program Inventory | 16 |
Qualitative Results: Interview Themes & Insights | 21 |
Extension Roles & Leadership Styles | 22 |
Program Strategy & Structure | 25 |
Products, Tools, Target Outcomes & Impacts | 28 |
External Constraints | 30 |
CES Institutional Challenges | 34 |
Opportunities Moving Forward | 39 |
Conclusions and Recommendations | 47 |
Successes | 47 |
Challenges | 47 |
Opportunities | 49 |
Acknowledgements | 51 |
References | 52 |
Appendix A: National Inventory of Extension Climate & Extreme Weather Programs | 53 |
Appendix B: C/EW Program Partners & Funders Identified through Qualitative Interviews | 54 |
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