Watershed Education Planning (WEP)
Fellow: Anne Sawyer, University of Minnesota Roadmap Wep Hub Fellow Report:
The purpose of this project is to develop an online hub of resources for watershed planning organizations that aims to help them build successful, sustainable, and measurable education programs, enabling water quality improvements that the community values and engages with, unlike traditional program offerings that are based on available cost-share or short-term grant deliverables. ● Finished "What is a Watershed" one-pager and circulated it to advisory team members for review ● Created "Watershed Engagement Programming (WEP) Hub" website in Drupal Lite 9.0, hosted at University of Minnesota. The site doesn't have any content yet, but it exists! ● Held our first meeting with our advisory team members. Received lots of feedback on our network survey. ● Drafted network survey to send to potential users of WEP Hub content; survey contains a few needs assessment questions and asks for submissions to HUB. ● Held stakeholder conversations about WEP Hub and regional needs with Freshwater (MN Nonprofit), Metro Watershed Partners (another local nonprofit), MN Association of Watershed Districts, Hennepin County (to discuss evaluation metrics for grant reporting)
Watershed Engagement Programming (WEP) Hub: https://wephub.umn.edu/ Watershed One-pager: https://create.piktochart.com/output/57090660-minnesota-watershed
● Virtual Chat held in collaboration with Extension Foundation. ● Beta test network survey with advisory team members (SWCD staff, etc); send out network survey and begin analyzing results ● Held Drupal software training and began to populate WEP Hub with existing resources - Complete virtual chat and see what we learn from our peers! ● Continued to meet with our advisory team members (every other month)
Catalysts’ Report: Chuck Hibberd and Jimmy Henning
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