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Community Development for Practitioners & Extension Professionals Curriculum

Topic: Community Planning, Resilience, and Sustainability, Community-Based Economic Development, Human Capacity Building, Inclusive Processes and Engagement, Workforce Development | Phase: Initiating & Scoping, Organizing, Assessing, Visioning & Planning, Implementing | Resource Use: , | Resource Format: Presentation, Program

The purpose of this curriculum is to build an understanding of community development, its significance, and how Extension professionals and other community development practitioners can utilize community development to support community resilience. The curriculum is intended to build a theoretical understanding with applied examples. This content is also presented in…

CREATE BRIDGES – Celebrating Retail, Accommodations, Tourism, and Entertainment by Building Rural Innovations and Developing Growth Economies

Topic: Business Development, Community Planning, Resilience, and Sustainability, Community-Based Economic Development, Tourism | Phase: Initiating & Scoping, Organizing, Assessing, Visioning & Planning, Implementing | Resource Use: , | Resource Format: Presentation, Process Guide, Program

CREATE BRIDGES is a program designed for multi-county regions to raise awareness of the role retail, accommodations, tourism, and entertainment businesses play in the local economy; determine challenges and opportunities related to those businesses; and develop and implement strategies strengthening those sectors. CREATE BRIDGES was developed through a collaborative partnership…

FORWARD Curriculum

Topic: Business Development, Workforce Development | Phase: Initiating & Scoping, Organizing, Assessing, Visioning & Planning, Implementing, Evaluating & Reflecting | Resource Use: , | Resource Format: Presentation, Process Guide, Program

Future Opportunities for Rural Workforce and Rural Development (FORWARD) Sponsored by Ascendium Education Group, the FORWARD curriculum is designed to support Cooperative Extension Professionals (CEPs) working to address workforce development issues in rural communities. This project expands upon Cooperative Extension’s experience with youth engagement and career development to target non-traditional…

Economic Opportunity Maps

Topic: Business Development, Community Planning, Resilience, and Sustainability, Community-Based Economic Development | Phase: Initiating & Scoping, Organizing, Assessing, Visioning & Planning | Resource Use: , | Resource Format: Presentation, Program, Tool, Web-based Tool

The Economic Opportunity Mapping (EOM) Tool provides interactive online maps that allow users to visualize potential county-level economic opportunities for businesses in different industries across the United States. In addition to county summary statistics, the EOM tool provides a visual representation of results of a model producing expected industrial predicted…

Beginner’s Guide to Grant Writing

Topic: Community Planning, Resilience, and Sustainability, Community-Based Economic Development, Human Capacity Building, Natural Resources, Organizational Development | Phase: Initiating & Scoping, Organizing, Assessing, Visioning & Planning, Implementing, Evaluating & Reflecting | Resource Use: , | Resource Format: Presentation, Process Guide, Program

The Beginner’s Guide to Grant Writing (BGGW) workshop is an award-winning two-day in-person training in which participants draft a proposal, give and receive feedback on each other’s proposal, search for funders, and learn the importance of building relationships with partners and funders. The BGGW workshop is an efficient, economical, evidence-based…