Extension Collaborative on Immunization Teaching and Engagement (EXCITE) and enables Cooperative Extension to create a dynamic geographic map about the work happening system-wide on immunization education and show the strength and value that Cooperative Extension brings to our communities. ❖ Learning and Networking Platform for CES: Connect Extension is a co-learning environment that expands professional development opportunities to all Land-Grant Universities, NTAE partners, and their constituents. Launched in response to Covid-19 in March 2020, the platform currently has 5,819 Land-grant University users participating in subgroups from Health, Urban Agriculture, Workforce to Climate. The accounts represent 5288 from 1862 institutions, 415 from 1890 institutions, 28 from 1994 institutions, 84 from federal agencies (USDA, HHS, EPA, NIH), and four from USDA-NIFA certified NLGCA's. From September 1, 2021 to August 30th, 2022, there were 668,620 users representing 853,857 sessions. 88.8% were new visitors to the platform. 56.2% were on mobile, 41.5% on Desktops and 2.3% were on tablets. They represented a total of 1,306,223 pageviews in that time frame. The Hubspot platform was added in Year 3 Quarter 1 to further enhance communication and connectedness with CES. ❖ USDA Related NTAE Projects: Project teams submitted an online application form. Projects that applied went through an application process where the projects were scored in a vetted rubric by outside reviewers. Final selection for projects rested on the scored rubrics and advice from catalysts about project readiness. All NTAE project topics related to the USDA Strategic Goals. Catalysts provide a lead mentor role with projects. Catalysts have many years of experience with programming and networks across the country. Catalysts are: Dr. Scott Reed, Dr. Fred Schlutt, Dr. Rick Klemme, Dr. Chuck Hibberd, Dr. Jimmy Henning, Dr. Dawn Mellion, and Dr. Dyremple Marsh. ➢ Communication and Marketing: Targeted communication and marketing strategies to ensure resources are available to CES professionals to create a national network of CES involved in a focused effort and provide greater visibility for CES. The Extension Foundation now uses HubSpot as the customer resource management tool and as a platform for communications and email. ➢ NTAE Competitive Project Information: These strategies are described in length in this report starting on page 12. ➢ Partnerships for Expansion and Sustainability: Leadership by individual stakeholders is necessary but not sufficient to drive transformational and systemic change. Collective action and collaboration is essential. It is needed among projects themselves, in specific sectors, around specific issues and locations. It is also needed on a cross-sector or multi-stakeholder basis between companies, governments and organizations like the Cooperative Extension System. Projects
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