and assets in the National Registry of Cooperative Extension Programs and Assets. ● Continued to work on ongoing relationship development and cultivation with federal agencies, partners and ongoing improvements to NECI website and workflow. ● Ongoing NECI membership recruitment. ● Change in meetings: based on NECI membership feedback via in-meeting polls and a survey we broke out professional development from the monthly membership meetings and effective January 2022 now host three meetings each month: one (1) 60-minute professional development meeting with guest presenters; one (1) 60-minute membership https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-fM8bSf7TEQstvQiqhVxw8Hh35PmQ_QSBD 5LGHk3LLo/edit#gid=1890964432engagement meeting; and one(1) 60-minute steering committee meeting. ● Continued drafting NECI's operating policies (protocols) for terms of service, communications, and workflow. ● Participated in the Extension Foundation's Impact Collaborative Summit held January 18-20, 2022 - hosted two NECI Steering Committee Meetings - one in December 2021 and one in January 2022 - hosted one NECI Membership Engagement Meeting in January 2022. ● National Extension Climate Initiative website. ● Monthly meetings web page updated to include “professional development,” “engagement,” and “steering committee,” meeting details click here. ● A vetted and curated list of resources on the new “Resources” page on the NECI website click here. Anticipated work for the next quarter includes: ● Hire a 0.50 FTE post-doc to serve as a climate coordinator to help develop and implement work ow protocols and provide overall coordination of our many moving parts. ● Plan and launch communications plan to increase NECI membership, inform and educate members on work occurring nationally, increase National Extension Registry entries. ● Support planning efforts for the 2022 National Extension Energy and National Sustainability Summits (NEES+NSS) being held in Pennsylvania in May 2022. ● Schedule presenters for the 2022 NECI Professional Development Webinars and host the webinars -monthly engagement meetings to be held on the third Wednesday of each month. The combined work of this team, ECOP's Climate PAT, Extension Foundation, and NECI led to elevate Extension's work in climate change and generated agencies reaching out to Extension for assistance drafting ways in which to move climate action, adaptation, education, and mitigation forward in the U.S
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