Charlie French is working with Michele Gagne and Fabienne Fonseca (NRES Doctoral Student) to compile a 10-Year Retrospective of the Community Profiles in New Hampshire.

To date, UNH Cooperative Extension has helped nearly 50 New Hampshire communities conduct the process. We have tracked these communities' outcomes through an extensive evaluation process over the past six years.

Using this data, as well as data from a survey of Extension staff, interviews with community stakeholders, and interviews with the key architects behind the process, the report will highlight the various successes and challenges that communities faced.

One such interview French has already conducted is with Sen. Judd Gregg, who shared his knowledge about Extension, the Community Profiles process, and the Living Legacy program. Sen. Gregg chartered the commission that catalyzed the latter two.

The report will provide textured portraits of individual communities, as well as trace the evolution of Community Profiles from its origin with the Governor's Commission on New Hampshire in the 21st Century over a decade and a half ago.