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Successful Urban Program: Building from the
Traditional Base
Curt Moulton, Professor and
County Director,
WSU Snohomish County Extension
http://snohomish.wsu.edu
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Successful Urban Program: Building from the
Traditional Base
Why a new model?
• Extension is becoming invisible in
urban counties
• Extension is not the only game in
town
• Metropolitan governments hiring
more employees, many with
advanced degrees
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Successful Urban Program: Building from the
Traditional Base
Why a new model?
• Elected officials are working by
initiative creating new programs that
they can take credit for
• Opportunities for expanding
Extension programming and funding
are greater in an urban area
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Successful Urban Program: Building from the
Traditional Base
What is the model?
“Building on Strengthens of
Extension and the University”
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Successful Urban Program: Building from the
Traditional Base
What is the model?
“Building on Strengthens of Extension
and the University”
4 Pillars:
1. Building projects around community issues
2. Building partnerships
3. Building the infrastructure in the county office
4. Building relationships with campus faculty and
Centers
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Successful Urban Program: Building from the
Traditional Base
Build on Your Extension Base
• Agriculture - move into food systems
(hubs, farmers markets, urban
farming)
• Master Gardeners – focus on
community issues such as hunger
and water quality
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Successful Urban Program: Building from the
Traditional Base
Build on Your Extension Base
• Youth development – integrate
STEM, leadership and earn/learn
projects. Focus on reaching into
underserved communities.
• Nutrition education – build from the
base of Supplemental Nutrition
programming for families into
community health initiatives.
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Successful Urban Program: Building from the
Traditional Base
Build on Your Extension Base
• Forestry/ Natural Resources – build
on the base to help local
governments meet their obligations
under the Clean Water Act, carbon
reduction, and other environmental
regulations
• Community Development – focus on
economic development initiatives
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Successful Urban Program: Building from the
Traditional Base
Build on Your Extension Base
• Volunteers – build from your
volunteer base; train and engage
your volunteers in new initiatives
focused on community issues;
address issues of younger people
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Successful Urban Program: Building from the
Traditional Base
Build upon your University Base
• Research is part of our Land Grant
mission – conduct applied research
projects and tie university research
programs into your community
• Use research abilities to differentiate
Extension from other organizations
in the community
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Traditional Base
Build upon your University Base
• Connect your programs to academic
teaching programs and their
students
• Include applied research in job
descriptions and hire appropriately
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Successful Urban Program: Building from the
Traditional Base
Build Partnerships
(rather than Compete)
• Keeps competitors close
• Allows organizations to focus
through their strengths
• Demonstrates to elected officials,
organizations, funders and the public
that Extension is a team player
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Successful Urban Program: Building from the
Traditional Base
Build Partnerships
(rather than Compete)
• Build or tie into regional
programming – if an issue is region
wide, demonstrate Extension’s
abilities to cross jurisdiction
boundaries
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Successful Urban Program: Building from the
Traditional Base
Diversify Program Funding Base
• Develop funding relationships with
county departments, city
governments, special districts and
NGOs
• Fees and fees-for-service
• Develop the ability to accept
donations to support programs
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Successful Urban Program: Building from the
Traditional Base
Diversify Program Funding Base
• Develop/fund county office
infrastructure management to
support a more diverse funding
base
• In addition to the University, use
county government and other local
organizations to funnel grant
contracts to the Extension office
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Successful Urban Program: Building from the
Traditional Base
How does the model work?
• The County Extension Director
works at the community leader level
rather than the program level
– Watches for trends and
opportunities
• Community issues
• Programming opportunities
• Funding sources
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Successful Urban Program: Building from the
Traditional Base
How does the model work?
• Program teams in place willing to
follow-up on new opportunities
• County office infrastructure supports
local fund development, contract
management and personnel
management
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Successful Urban Program: Building from the
Traditional Base
How does the model work?
• Infrastructure barriers are reduced
by selecting the appropriate
institution through which to run a
contract.
– Understanding policies,
procedures and capabilities of the
University, county and program
partners
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Successful Urban Program: Building from the
Traditional Base
Additional strategies
• Hire strategic thinkers.
• Never lay-off support staff
• Local overhead needs to be figured
into every grant even those coming
through the University.
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Successful Urban Program: Building from the
Traditional Base
Outcomes:
• Stayed at full staffing through the
Great Recession
• Local funding for Snohomish County
Extension exceeds $1,000,000
• Number of contracts and fee
programs exceeds 30.
• WSU Extension is visible in the
community and requested partner
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Successful Urban Program: Building from the
Traditional Base
Questions?
Curt Moulton, Professor and County Director,
WSU Snohomish County Extension,
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Successful Urban Program: Building from the
Traditional Base