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Registration is open now for the Rural Grocery Transition Specialist program! This self-paced, online course is designed to train resource providers to better support rural grocery business transitions. Students who successfully complete the course will earn a microcredential through K-State Global Campus. The course will be held September 9 through December 8, 2024. Register by August 30, 2024 at ruralgrocery.org/specialist.

At this time Fuel for Life is only available in English. We are working to secure funding for Spanish translation in the future.

Whether you’re working in Extension, education, the non-profit or government sector, or private business, mid-career can bring exciting professional development and growth, as well as great internal worry and doubt… often at the same time. At mid-career, we begin to trust ourselves (having been around long enough to learn a few things), but we can also have lingering existential questions about whether we’re really on the right path, or if our management and leadership and communication...

Written by: Kalin Goble Mathis, M.S. (she/her/hers) Empathetic communication allows for deeper connections, clearer communication, and trust-building for stronger relationships. For service providers, professional goals often include understanding people’s experiences, accessing needs, and providing personalized treatment plans and services. Towards these goals, a foundation of service provision is applying empathetic listening daily in work with clients. Empathy is not just a skill, but a...

You still have a few opportunities to join this year’s Professional Development series, Extension Skills . The Extension Foundation is excited to invite you to the final topic series of the year, focused on finding and securing funding. Extension Skill s provides 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...

This position can be based in any county office in New Hampshire or campus in Durham, with potential for remote work as determined appropriate with supervisor. The beginning farmer program manager will be responsible for planning, implementing and evaluating outreach programs for beginning farmers under the general direction of designated supervisor. This position is funded by a three-year grant project focused on providing outreach programs and resources to train beginning farmers to be...

4-H Multi-state Urban Research 4-H provides an “Opportunity for All” to design a positive path toward their future. One of the main goals of 4-H is to teach life skills to youth that will have a lasting impact on their development into adulthood. In urban communities, programs may not include some structures commonly found in “traditional” 4-H. The NAE4-HYDP Urban Programming Working Group conducted a study to measure the life skill attainment of participants. This multi-state research...