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National Registry of Cooperative Extension Programs & Assets February 2022 Update

The National Registry of Cooperative Extension Programs & Assets (NRCEPA) provides ready-access to a living database of efforts across the system in order to rapidly respond to system-wide funding opportunities. Over 200 Cooperative Extension Programs and Projects have been registered in the NRCEPA since its inception.

In February 2022, several improvements were made to the NRCEPA based upon feedback received from individuals and organizations across Cooperative Extension:

Improved design to show multiple questions per screen rather than a single question per screen.
Reduced redundancy on question condition logic.
Enabled and improved form accessibility for ADA compliance.

The Extension Foundation would like to thank numerous individuals and organizations across Cooperative Extension that have provided feedback on the NRCEPA for the past year to help us improve this technology. This includes the National Extension Tourism Network, National Extension Climate Initiative, Southern Rural Development Center, National Extension Association of Family & Consumer Sciences, National Urban Extension Leaders, Extension Collaborative on Immunization Teaching & Engagement, and individual users across the Cooperative Extension system.

To register your program, project, curriculum, or resource, please visit extension.org/registry.

This tool is supported in part by New Technologies for Ag Extension grant no. 2020-41595-30123 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this content are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

February 10, 2022/by Aaron Weibe

Now Available: The National Registry of Cooperative Extension Programs and Assets

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This tool is now available to Cooperative Extension. Join 50+ other Extension programs that have already registered!

Responding to specific requests in regional meetings and through various projects including EXCITE, the Extension Foundation has developed a National Registry of Cooperative Extension Programs and Assets (NRCEPA). This tool will enable Cooperative Extension professionals to register their projects, programs, or curriculum for nationwide collaboration among Cooperative Extension colleagues.

The intent of this tool is to assist Extension professionals to quickly find other like-programming efforts across the system to reduce duplication of work, and help speed up access to digital assets that would be useful to the development of new programs.
At the request of Extension leaders, the NRCEPA provides ready-access to a living database of efforts across the system in order to rapidly respond to system-wide funding opportunities.

The NRCEPA was co-designed with a number of individuals and organizations across Cooperative Extension including the ECOP Health Innovation Task Force, and the National Urban Extension Leaders (NUEL).

Check it out at extension.org/registry

The National Urban Extension Leaders (NUEL) has been talking about the need to have a national database that allows for the collection of current Extension program efforts in urban and metropolitan spaces to better allow Extension to tell it’s ‘Urban Impacts’ story. The National Registry is what we had been hoping for…and so much more!

– Marie Ruemenapp, Extension Specialist & Co-Director Urban Collaborators, Michigan State University Extension

Features

When registering a project, program, or curriculum, users are invited to add any digital assets they feel may be helpful to their peers nationally for download. This includes evaluation tools, images, videos, text for campaigns, and more.
Auto-segments Cooperative Extension programs by program area including Ag & Natural Resources, 4-H/Youth Development, FACS, Community Development, Immunization Education, and Urban Extension.
After submitting your program, project, or curriculum to the registry, you’ll be able to return anytime to make updates.
Dynamic search helps users find what they need quickly by keyword.

The Extension Collaborative on Immunization Teaching and Engagement (EXCITE) piloted the NRCEPA as a means of taking a landscape assessment of immunization education programs across Cooperative Extension. This enabled EXCITE to see the scope of efforts already happening across Cooperative Extension on capacity funds, identify potential collaborations, share curriculums and materials, and lift up the work happening in this area to our CDC and USDA-NIFA partners.

– Michelle Rodgers, Associate Dean and Director, University of Delaware, EXCITE Project Director

Follow the National Registry on Twitter at @NRCEPA for real-time updates with new program, project, and curriculum submissions.

This work is supported in part by New Technologies for Ag Extension grant no. 2020-41595-30123 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

June 24, 2021/by Aaron Weibe

Extension Foundation Pilots a National Registry of Cooperative Extension Programs and Assets (NRCEPA)

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Responding to specific requests in regional meetings and through various projects including EXCITE, the Extension Foundation has developed a tool using commercial solutions to create a National Registry of Cooperative Extension Programs and Assets (NRCEPA). This tool will enable Cooperative Extension professionals to register their projects, programs, or curriculum for nationwide collaboration among Cooperative Extension colleagues. The intent of this tool is to enable Extension professionals to rapidly find other like-programming efforts across the system to reduce duplication of work, and help speed up access to digital assets that would be useful to the development of new programs.

When registering a project, program, or curriculum, users are invited to upload any digital assets they feel may be helpful to their peers nationally. This includes evaluation tools, images, videos, text for campaigns, and more.

The NRCEPA received input from a number of individuals and organizations across Cooperative Extension including the ECOP Health Innovation Task Force, and NUEL. The NRCEPA is currently being piloted with the Extension Collaborative on Immunization Teaching & Engagement (EXCITE) and is expected to roll out for broader use across Cooperative Extension in summer 2021. For information on the EXCITE program, please visit extension.org/immunization.

March 17, 2021/by Aaron Weibe

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