NTAE Competitive Projects
Why are these important? NIFA funding allows various types of projects to be developed through teams to serve important local and national issues across the country. Projects are led by Fellows who lead educational efforts regarding the issue. Fellows demonstrate enhanced leadership and advanced project efforts to develop content, curriculum, delivery methods, partnerships and learn about additional methods to understand audiences. They fine tune their marketing strategies and extend the use of federal dollars applied to projects related to USDA and ECOP priorities brought to local issues. This leads to increased impacts of CES efforts across the country. These combined objectives and efforts represent the incubation, acceleration and expansion of NTAE projects. Projects may use some or all of the NTAE funded resources to accelerate their project. NTAE Projects include a total of 39 competitive projects that went through an application selection phase. Research and Extension Catalysts mobilize talent among networks within Extension and from private and public sector partners. The Catalysts consulted with Land Grant Institutions and their networks to identify topics related to the Strategic Goals, and located resources that address each topic to encourage applications for the competitive NTAE projects. Project teams submitted a nomination form, the application was reviewed by a team of outside scorers through the use of a rubric and once applications were selected by the outside team for the NTAE Project, the Catalysts provided insight as to project readiness. Year 4 Catalysts include: Dr. Scott Reed, Dr. Fred Schlutt, Dr. Rick Klemme, Dr. Dyremple Marsh, Dr. Jimmy Henning, Dr. Dawn Mellion and Dr. Chuck Hibberd. Catalysts assisted with the following:
1) Identifying topics for publishing. 2) Refining unique value statements and project roadmaps for project implementation
3) Providing support for expanding project networks 4) Providing input for selected Fellows for each topic 5) Working with Key Informants and projects:
Identifying key partners and building relationships with projects Conducting surveys and working with the evaluation of projects Advising the Audience Engagement Initiative and projects timing Connecting team building and leadership building strategies with teams Seeking to embed evaluation into projects
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