➢ 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 expand current partnerships and organizational networks for the CES system by connecting the fellows to various public, private and corporate partners. Extension Key Informant Services Extension provides a menu of “key informant services” designed to accelerate innovative projects. The services and Extension lead staff are: ● Program Design and Educational Technology encourages all projects to share their processes and products via Connect.Extension.org. Professional development is about a learning process for the projects and CES. Fellows share their learning through social media and virtual Professional Development. This is led by Molly Immendorf, WI. ● Digital Publishing and Engagement support for digital learning and instruction used by the project is needed and also for Extension professionals to share the process and learnings which are expected to be shared digitally from each project. Each project is expected to use Connect Extension. This is led by Ashley Griffin , KY and Rose Hayden-Smith, CA. ● Leadership and Leadership Development support and training for adaptation to a digital environment is provided (helping Fellows be leaders in a digital environment) as well as team building for each project is a part of this support system. Leadership learning is embedded in each project. This is led by Karl Bradley, CO. ● Flipping Book/s or epub publishing of resources and processes used by the project are important for sharing content and processes. This publishing process allows the content and process of the project to be documented and researchable by others to support project expansion and project adoption. This is led by Ashley Griffin, KY. ● Market research, and/or strategic messaging strategies are provided as needed for projects to better understand their audiences and increase participation in their program. Market research, media audits and strategic communications are a part of this accelerating strategy. This is led by Aaron Weibe, NC and Melanie Pugsley, TX. ● Partnership and Development works with fellows and projects by assisting with early partner development for co-creation of ideas and implementation where possible. This effort seeks to develop partners for early stage co-creation and long term support of the project. This is led by Megan Hirschman, MI and Hellina Tadesse, NY.
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