Edited by Myra Moss, Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist, Community Development

Published by Shirley Cook and Don Ordaz, State Community Development Office, October 2006

FROM THE DESK OF KEN MARTIN, AD / COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

The 2006 North Central Cooperative Extension Administrators (NCCEA) Program Leader/Director/Administrator meeting was held October 2-4, 2006 at Michigan State University.  Building on work that commenced at the 2005 joint meeting, program leaders from the four program areas (Agriculture and Natural Resources, 4-H Youth Development, Families/Consumer Science, and Community Development) reported on their efforts to formalize regional multi-state Extension programs for the North Central Region.  The mutual benefits for the region include efficiency, shared expertise, excellence, and targeted impacts.  To realize these benefits, the groups worked on leadership structure, communication strategies, and structural agreements with clearly defined responsibilities, commitments, and timelines.

In the CD program area, four priority programs were presented to the directors:  participatory community planning, organizational development, economic development, and leadership development.  These priority areas were each presented in a LOGIC model along with message points that included: importance, results and impacts, and financial and economic implications.  You can view these documents at the following link:

   http://www.comdev.ohio-state.edu/pub/nccea_programleaders_priorityprograms.doc

The goal is to implement the four programs in a multi-state effort using the LOGIC model framework and indicators to document impacts across the region.  In addition to the four priority programs, six emerging issues were identified:  energy and the bio-economy, immigration patterns, urban neighborhood development, community approaches to poverty reduction, community systems for entrepreneurship, and rural and regional development.  Program leaders created project teams to conduct a gap analysis for the six emerging issues and to develop integrated approaches across program areas to work on these opportunities.

Call for Papers: 3rd Annual Community Capitals Framework Institute

The Third Annual Institute on the Community Capitals Framework will be held at Iowa State University in Ames from November 30 – December 1, 2006. This Institute will feature presentations of current scholarly work and practice in the field followed by group discussion. The proceedings will be published so that others can benefit from the work in progress around the Community Capitals Framework. For more information: <http://www.ncrcrd.iastate.edu/projects/commcap/index.htm>

*Abstracts due October 13th:  500 word abstract to <mailto:memery@iastate.edu

*Papers due:  November 3rd

Early registration:  September 1st through November 10th:                                                              <http://www.ncrcrd.iastate.edu/projects/commcap/2006/index.htm>

Web site for Institute: http://www.ncrcrd.iastate.edu/projects/commcap/2006/index.htm.

Upcoming CD Events: Regional CD Meetings

CD West Regional Meeting - October 30, 2006 - 9:30 - 12:30 p.m.  Fayette County Extension Office.  If you have a topic for discussion for the agenda, please send it to Shirley Cook at  cook.22@osu.edu or merkowitz.1@osu.edu.   Morning refreshments will be served.  This is an opportunity to meet with other Extension Educators and Specialists and share your programs or discuss issues or concerns with Ken Martin.  We hope to see you there!

Other scheduled dates for CD Regional Meetings are:

North Regional Meeting in Wyandot County on November 6, 2006 from 9:30 - 12:30 p.m.  Crawford Township Hall, 107 E. North St., Carey, OH.  Nancy Kukay is the Coordinator of this meeting.  Please let either Shirley or Nancy know if you have any agenda items or would like to present one of your programs.

West Regional Meeting in Van Wert County on November 16, 2006 from 9:30 - 12:30 p.m.  Nancy Bowen will be the Coordinator.  Location to be determined.  Please let Shirley or Nancy know if you have an agenda item or would like to present one of your programs.

November 21st Knowledge Economy Convening Meeting

The three Extension Centers have been charged with providing administrative leadership to developing the OSU Extension Knowledge Economy (KE) Initiative. One of the first steps is to hold an internal (OSU Extension only) convening meeting on November 21st in Columbus. The specific meeting agenda and location will be shared later, but the meeting will focus on bringing together Extension Professionals interested in KE programming. Future directions for the initiative and its teams will be determined at the meeting. The three sub-teams are:

            Employment success – David Boulay, team leader

            Entrepreneurship – Myra Moss, team leader

            Educational excellence – Joe Konen, team leader

For more information or to attend, please contact Jerry Thomas at thomas.69@osu.edu or 419.422.6106.

Opportunity to Attend Tax Workshop at No Cost

Don Breece has offered to let CD related professionals attend the

2006 tax workshops at no cost if they are willing to help with

set-up, booth management, etc. For anyone working with small business

development the workshops will provide an excellent opportunity to

obtain a good background in business taxation.  The link to the tax workshops with information on the dates, content is: http://aede.osu.edu/programs/TaxSchool/index.html.

If anyone is interested, please have them contact Don Breece directly

Share and Learn with Extension CD Colleagues: Dec 6-8, 2006 Tri-State Study Tour

With stops in Cleveland, Medina, Bellville, and Columbus, the three-day, two-night study tour is sure to be a success.  Participants from Extension systems in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virgina will be coming together to learn more about programming strengths, needs, and potential opportunities for interstate collaboration.  The registration deadline is November 9.  Look for registration materials to be posted soon.  NOTE:  You are welcome to attend any and all portions of the tour program.  See the draft itinerary through the following link:

http://comdev.osu.edu/pub/Tri-StateStudyTourItinerary.doc

News from Centers and Programs: Sharing Knowledge Economy Programming via Blended

A team composed of David Boulay, Greg Davis, Bill Grunkemeyer, Ken Kulka, Myra Moss and Jerry Thomas (Team Leader) recently received an OSU Extension Venture Fund grant to develop Knowledge Economy (KE) related curriculum that will be shared via blended e-learning methods. The program will serve as a pilot and will focus on engaging ten (10) OSU Extension Professionals representing all program areas in an educational program that uses a variety of educational methods and tools including: face-face meetings, WebEx, podcasts, blogs, instant messaging and conference calls.

The program will concurrently provide education about KE topics and test alternative educational delivery methods. Participants are expected to not only learn about the KE, but also develop a plan to incorporate what they’ve learned in their programming. Each participant will also learn how to use new technology tools like blogs and audio recordings on their own computers.

Results from the program will be shared with OSU Extension and will help to determine the design of an external program. For more information contact Jerry Thomas at thomas.69@osu.edu or at 419.422.6106.

News from Extension Watershed and Sea Grant Programs – John Hageman, Sea Grant & Stone Lab

West Regional CD Meeting

On August 24, the West Regional Community Development staff attended a meeting at the Hancock County Extension Office in Findlay to get caught up with each others current projects and receive administrative updates from Ken Martin. Two formal presentations were given. Joe Bonnell talked about the progress of watershed resources for CD programming such as distance education, skills of team members, maps, grant opportunities, networks and organizations that may be useful. Joe can be contacted at bonnell.8@osu.edu for further information.  Joe followed  F. T. Stone Laboratory manager John Hageman, who gave a power point presentation of the lab's aquatic science workshop program on Lake Erie at Put-in-Bay. The show can be viewed at: http://ohioseagrant.osu.edu/_documents/stonelab/workshops/presentation.pps

Put-in-Bay Underwater Clean Up

On Monday September 18, 2006 John Hageman was once again the local coordinator of the 14th Put-in-Bay Underwater Clean Up. Over 60 SCUBA divers and over 200 land volunteers teamed up to remove sunken trash from the Put-in-Bay Harbor. Prizes were given for the most unusual, valuable, largest, smallest items retrieved and the best zebra mussel sculpture.  Hundreds of pounds of trash including beverage cans, cups, bottles, grills, towels, sunglasses, cell phones, and a wallet were recovered. The trash was weighed, then disposed of into the dumpsters, the wallet forwarded to the local police and a few items claimed as "treasure." Stone Laboratory provides rowboats and dip nets, ladders to enter and exit from the water, hoses to wash mud off the trash before disposal and donated onion bags that are used underwater to carry the recovered trash. Since the first clean up in 1992, over 10 tons of trash have been removed from the Lake!

Cost Recovery Opportunities: Deadline This Month!

Under H.B. 289 many Family and Children’s First Councils are required to formulate plans to identify local interagency efforts to develop child-well-being in the county.  The State has outlined a process through which to complete this plan.  Many county Councils are seeking assistance in facilitating and gathering data for their individual planning processes, and the State has recognized that OSU Extension county offices can be a good resource for these services.  Also, the State will provide small grants to the Councils to hire facilitation/data gathering services.  If you are interested in obtaining additional information about this planning effort and how you might participate, please contact Joe Konen at konen.2@osu.edu

Community Development Resources:

http://comdev.osu.edu/CDProgramResources.doc

Revised Per Capita Personal Income by State, FY 2003-2005

The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) recently released revised estimates of state personal income from 2003-2005. According to BEA's data, the U.S. as a whole showed an increase of 9.64 percent in per capita personal income over the three years. Twenty-seven states experienced per capita personal income growth greater than the national average. The District of Columbia ranks first at 15.66 percent, followed by Wyoming (13.96 percent), Hawaii (13.81 percent), Oklahoma (13.21 percent), Nevada (12.61 percent), Alabama (12.46 percent), Florida (12.38 percent), New Mexico (12.33 percent), Maryland (12.18 percent) and Idaho (12.01 percent).  SSTI's table ranking all 50 states and the District of Columbia by revised per capita personal income from 2003-2005 is available at: http://www.ssti.org/Digest/Tables/100206t.htm