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Initiative 5: Augment Program Delivery
Human, monetary, and technical resources that augment program delivery and information transfer
Traditionally, funding for Maryland Cooperative Extension has relied heavily on the Land Grant System partnership among federal, state, and local governments. Our public funding, while critical and greatly appreciated, will likely not be sufficient for MCE to meet our educational responsibilities in the future. An initiative is required to exercise fiscal stewardship, by evaluating and prioritizing our programs, and to secure additional resources through community and/or program development grants, private contributions, competitive grants processes, gifts and bequeaths, more volunteer assistance, in-kind contributions, and other sources.
As noted in other initiatives of this plan, in meeting our resource and program needs, we must continually assess the needs of our stakeholders, invest in the human capital of our organization, increase our ability to do cost-effective education, create more effective partnerships, evaluate our programming efforts, and strengthen our organizational structure.
Strategic Actions
- Enhance MCE stewardship by scrutinizing the rationale for existing resource allocations and shifting resources as needed.
- Strengthen individual and group initiatives to obtain new resources for MCE by providing stronger behavioral incentives, through personnel evaluations and promotions for faculty and staff.
- When hiring new faculty, make the expected ability to access new and additional resources a prime consideration for employment.
- Create more cost-effective program delivery techniques.
- Integrate the Logic Model into our evaluation procedures.
- Anticipate the changing dynamics of our economy with contingency planning reflecting flexibility and stewardship.
- Increase our ability to anticipate and share information about emerging possibilities for additional resources.
For more information, contact Jim Hanson
Last updated: 09/27/2006
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