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 4,875 Extension users participating in subgroups from Health, Urban Agriculture, to Climate. The accounts represent 4438 from 1862 institutions, 310 from 1890 institutions, 22 from 1994 institutions, 56 from federal agencies (USDA, HHS, EPA, NIH), and three from USDA-NIFA certified NLGCA's. Since September 1, 2021, there were 336,000 users representing 411,000 sessions. 88.5% were new visitors to the platform. 54.5% were on mobile, 43.2% on Desktops and 2.3% were on tablets. They represented a total of 622,672 pageviews since September 2021. The Hubspot platform was added in Year 3 Quarter 1 to further enhance communication and connectedness with CES. ❖ USDA Related NTAE Projects: Research and Extension Catalysts mobilize talent among networks within Extension and from private- and public sector partners. The Catalysts recruited projects from across the Land Grant system. Project teams submitted an online nomination 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. Additionally, in Year 3, NIFA identified a number of preselected projects to fund that are placed in our project accelerator for Catalysts to mentor and Key Information Services to provide additional resources to. Catalysts serve as program advisory support past senior program or administrative CES personnel. 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, Dr. Chuck Ross, 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. This represents 220 organizations including Land Grant Institutions, and other organizations engaged with our non-member/public offerings. ➢ NTAE Competitive and Preselected Project Information: These strategies are described in length in this report starting on page 14.
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