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

Click the link to view session recording in the Video Resource Library

September Extension Skills: Identifying and Choosing Uncommon Funding Sources for Extension
September 12th, 2024 2:00 - 300 PM ET 

Join us for a session to review unique and novel ideas to explore funding for Extension! Learn first hand about the different revenue sources Jerry Braatz was able to secure  to enhance Extension county outreach programming and leverage funding from county government.  In this session we will discuss a process for securing government and foundation funding sources as well as understanding how to develop a budget for a fee for service model. 


Hosted by:  Jerry Braatz

Prior to becoming an Area Extension Director in 2017, Jerry served as a Director and Community Development Educator providing outreach education in comprehensive planning, data analysis, strategic planning, entrepreneurship, and organizational development. Jerry has been with UW Madison Extension for nearly 28 years and has secured over $5.1 million in funding to enhance local Extension outreach programs in counties that he has served in Wisconsin. Jerry is a certified planner with the American Institute of Certified Planners and an Associate Professor in the Department of Extension at UW Madison. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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