UNH Cooperative Extension Offers Assistance to Communities

Through two programs, the Community Profiles and Master Plan Visioning, UNH Cooperative Extension's community assistance program works with a limited number of communities to help them organize, facilitate community planning and hold public visioning forums.

Applicants for either program are selected based on the community's readiness to start working on public involvement activities and a willingness of local decision-makers to participate. Application deadlines are August 15, 2008 and January 15, 2009.

The fee structure is based on population and is as follows:
  Town/city population of 2,499 or less: $500
  Town/city population of 2,500-24,999: $750
  Town/city population of 25,000 or more: $1,000

Fees will cover technical assistance from UNH Cooperative Extension to:

• help form the community-based steering committee that manages all details of the event,
• facilitate the event,
• train community facilitators to manage small group work at the event, and
• provide follow-up, for up to one year, to the project/action groups formed as a result of the event, including follow-up meetings and a one-year celebration to determine success.

Applications are available, and you can learn more about what communities can achieve with the assistance of UNH Cooperative Extension. If you have questions about the Community Profiles or Master Plan Visioning programs, contact Michele Gagne at michele.gagne@unh.edu
Posted June 16, 2008