Are you an urban extension professional? Are you excited to share what your urban community has to offer? Would you like to learn from others’ experiences in the urban setting? Would you enjoy exploring another cool Southern city? If so, JOIN US for the 2025 National Urban Extension Leaders (NUEL) Southern and 1890’s Regional Conference! Happening in the “Bull City” of Durham North Carolina from May 6-8, 2025, this NUEL conference provides extension professionals with an opportunity to grow...

Ready, Set, Go! The NUEL Professional Development Action Team invites you to attend the first webinar for 2025. The March 13 webinar will feature the NUEL Executive Team - Chair, Vice Chair, and Secretary. Join us to hear about the priorities that NUEL will be advancing this year. As we head towards the next biennial conference, this year also offers the opportunity for you to attend and participate in a regional NUEL meeting. March 13, 2025 3:30 P.M. EST Join Zoom Meeting: Meeting ID: 815...

📅 Submission Deadline: Friday, February 28, 2025 📍 Conference Dates: May 6-8, 2025 📍 Location: Durham, NC 🎯 Theme: The Power of WE: Partnering for Impact We invite members of the Southern and 1890 regions to showcase innovative programming initiatives addressing urban, suburban, and peri-urban populations. Presentation Types: Team Presentations: 45-minute moderated sessions focused on the conference theme or NUEL focus areas (Positioning, Programs, Personnel & Partnerships). Poster...

For those of you interested in civic engagement, community-engaged research, service-learning, informal science learning ...this professional development opportunity being offered by Michigan State University Outreach and Engagement might be for you. Summer Intensive on Community Engaged Scholarship--June 2-6, 2025 , welcomes graduate students, post-docs, Extension and academic staff, and faculty to an interactive week of learning at Michigan State University. Enjoy workshops, community...

The Assistant Director for 4-H Youth Development position is posted at https://osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/job/Columbus-Campus/Asst-Director-4-H-Development-Associate-Full-Professor_R121889-1 . The assistant director and state 4-H leader provides overall direction and administrative leadership for 4-H Youth Development programming throughout the state of Ohio. The 4-H assistant director reports to the director of Ohio State University Extension and serves as a member of the...

You are invited to join your regional urban colleagues at the 2025 North-Central NUEL Regional Conference. The conference will be held May 27-29, 2025, at Kirkwood Linn County Regional Conference Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Cedar Rapids is Iowa’s second largest city, is home to more than 100 miles of county biking & hiking trails and contains nearly 100 public parks. Quaker Oats in downtown Cedar Rapids is the largest milling facility in the world! As a nod to the Community Development...

We're hiring! University of Illinois Extension is currently seeking candidates for the Associate Dean and Director of Extension and Outreach . The Associate Dean and Director, Extension and Outreach, provides leadership, vision, and strategic direction for statewide public outreach and research-based education to advance the land-grant mission of the University of Illinois. This is a fantastic time to join Illinois Extension, which has a stable budget, a new strategic plan, and incredible...

Are you part of a work team or work with a community group that would benefit from doing some goal setting or strategic planning? Michigan State University Extension and the MSU National Charrette Institute is excited to offer an online session of the Setting Group Goals for Growth (SG3) workshop on the 5th of March, 2025. SG3 is a half-day, interactive, workshop for groups or teams with current strategic planning, goal setting, or futuring needs. Teams of 6-12 people will participate in a...

The Farm2Facts.org 2.0 platform will soon be available. For 10 years this product of the Kaufman lab for the Study and Design of Marketplaces and Food Systems at the University of Wisconsin Madison has been the leading toolkit supporting farmers market managers, government, and local organizations interested in measuring the impact of farmers markets on communities. It operationalizes all the metrics of the USDA Farmers Market Promotion Program grant application as well as the Local Foods...

Please save the dates and signup for conference updates for the May 11-14, 2026, National Urban Extension Conference hosted in Detroit, MI by Michigan State University Extension. This upcoming event’s focus will be on Driving Innovation Ahead. The event will take place at The Westin Book Cadillac at 1114 Washington Blvd, Detroit, MI 48226. Registration and room block information will be released in late 2025. Please visit canr.msu.edu/nuec for updates. You can also sign up to get email...

As we are entering 2025, we are approaching not only chick season, but we are getting our first positive detections of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza. I created a Backyard Poultry Online Certificate Course to assist new to seasoned poultry keepers navigate the process of keeping healthy flocks. This also satisfies multiple city and municipality requirements for keeping backyard poultry. The course is self-paced and super cheep at only $25. I attached a flyer for easy sharing to your 4-H...

The National League of Cities is offering an opportunity for cities, towns and counties to receive free technical assistance and fee waivers through our LEED for Cities Certification Cohort program, generously supported by the Bank of America. Please pass this on to any municipal or county contacts who might be interested. LEED for Cities is a comprehensive framework for local governments to manage community-wide sustainability efforts. It incorporates social, economic, and environmental...