2024 Extension Skills
An Extension Foundation Professional Development series

Each second Thursday of the month, the Impact Collaborative's Extension Skills series will provide an opportunity for Cooperative Extension professionals to build capacity with tools, processes and tech skills training. This series is available to Extension Foundation Members Only. Find out if your institution is an Extension Foundation member at extension.org/members. 

Extension Skills session topics have been informed by the Extension Foundation Needs Assessment completed in the Summer of 2023. The three themes this year- Telling Our Story, Community Engagement and Finding/Securing Funding were among the top needs expressed across Extension professionals from 1862, 1890 and 1994 institutions. Find past Extension Skill workshops on our Video Resource Library, also linked in the schedule. 

2024 Schedule

January 11 Telling Our Story: Creating a Digital Strategy- Data vs. Gut
February 8 Telling Our Story: Enhancing our Extension Story through Social Media strategy Targeting Diverse Audiences
March 14 Telling Our Story: Visualizations in Effective Storytelling
April 11 Telling Our Story: Communicating with Local Officials
May 9 Community Engagement for Economic Wellbeing
June 13 Community Engagement: Engaging Audiences who are Immigrant and Refugee
July 11 Community Engagement: Motivational Interviewing
August 8 Community Engagement: Strategies to Improve Engagement
September 12 Finding and Securing Funding
October 10 Finding and Securing Funding
November 14 Finding and Securing Funding
December 12 Finding and Securing Funding

May Extension Skills: Community Engagement for Economic Well Being
May 9th, 2024 2:00 - 300 PM ET 


Join us for a session on into Community Engagement for Economic Well Being, as we delve into what drives change in our communities! Keith’s work focuses on the use of institutions of collective action to advance and institutionalize community power. Participants will explore the distinction between community and economic development, learn essential skills for engagement, and receive an overview of practical tools for community development. Attendees can expect an informative and interactive session aimed at empowering them to drive positive change in their communities.

Keith Taylor, Ph.D.

Dr. Keith Taylor, Assistant Professor of Cooperative Extension & Community Economic Development. My Cooperative Extension educational work seeks to inspire communities to act in cultivating their individual capabilities, developing these institutions, and enhancing those organizations vital for individuals and communities to thrive.
To that end, I am an expert in:

  • Community Economic Development policies and practices;
  • Triple Bottom Line business forms and hybrid enterprise, such as co-operatives, nonprofits, B-corps, small businesses, and associations, and;
  • The governance and management of communities and Triple Bottom Line enterprise.

I bring the UC’s renowned classroom experience to California communities, translating evidence-based social science to practice. I work directly and co-create with changemakers, urban planners and economic developers, and a range of business development interests to build community solutions. I leverage agile strategic planning approaches and connection to real-world resources -in the form of practitioners, knowledge, and networks- for rapid implementation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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