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Regional Pulse: Insights from the 2024 Multi-Region Household Surveys (Connect Extension)
May 9, 2025 | Noon - 1 p.m. PDT
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Jointly funded by the USDA and land-grant universities, North Central Regional Center for Rural Development (Purdue) works with Extension professionals, researchers, and partners to address key challenges in rural communities. Its focus areas include creating resilient communities and economies, developing leadership and civic engagement, and promoting community health and wellness. Through initiatives like the NCR-Stat data platform, webinars, grants, and interdisciplinary research, NCRCRD supports evidence-based strategies to improve quality of life and economic vitality in rural areas.
Video Production Workshop (UC ANR)
May 13-14, 2025 | UC ANR Building, Davis
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Join us for this two-day, in-person Video Production Workshop with Ethan Ireland, UC ANR Senior Videographer, at UC ANR Headquarters. Together, you'll learn how to best use lighting, props, and other available resources to create captivating content for your audience. This is a two-day workshop, and one must be available to attend both dates in order to participate. All are invited to register; however, space is very limited, and priority will be given to academics. We will let you know by Friday, May 2, 2025, if your participation is confirmed.
Fundraising, & Grant Development for Extension Professionals: Structuring Effective Proposals, Part 1 (Connect Extension)
May 15, 2025, |11 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. PDT
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Lay the foundation for a winning grant proposal. This session covers essential strategies for designing budgets that drive impact and setting the stage for multi-phase project scopes. Learn why starting with a clear structure is key to success. Co-presented with Extension Foundation Grant Specialist Ann Taecker, you’ll gain expert insights to streamline your process and position your proposals for success from the start.
Office of Contracts and Grants (UC ANR)
The Office of Contracts and Grants' "Training and Other Resources" page offers a comprehensive suite of materials to support researchers and staff in navigating the grant lifecycle. It includes recorded trainings and slide decks on topics such as proposal development, award processes, and post-award management, as well as resources on compliance, intellectual property and internal policies. These tools are designed to enhance understanding and efficiency in securing and managing extramural funding
Need Fundraising Help? Contact Development Services (UC ANR Development Services)
UC ANR’s Development Services team supports your fundraising needs — from donor engagement and gift processing to creating online donation pages and campaign materials. They can help with:
- Annual appeals and major gifts
- Donor research and stewardship
- Endowments, planned gifts, and matching donations
- Gift tracking and acknowledgment
gifts@ucanr.edu | (530) 750-1389
Development Services
UC ANR Government and Community Relations Toolkit (UC ANR)
The UC ANR Government and Community Relations Toolkit offers guidance for engaging with elected officials and community partners. It provides key tips, templates and rules to help employees communicate UC ANR’s value effectively and appropriately within university guidelines.
UC Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2025: From Compliance to Inclusion (UCwide IT)
May 15, 2025, from 10 – 11:30 a.m.
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UC tech leaders will share practical accessibility skills, explain the importance of digital accessibility and answer audience questions. Then Lucy Greco, UC Berkeley, and Jill Wolters, UCSF, will talk about Lucy’s work as a disabled staff member at UC.
Addressing Disability Disparities Through Health Equity (Connect Extension)
May 23, 2025 | 8-9 a.m. PDT
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Join the University of Maryland Extension Marylanders Online program and partners for a free webinar series exploring the cutting edge of digital literacy, health equity and inclusion.
Software & App Purchasing: Know Before You Buy (UC ANR - Business Operations Center)
May 8, 2025, | Noon-12:30 p.m.
Need to purchase software for your research, administrative duties, or other aspects of your role? Join Janelle Wood, Financial Services Supervisor from the Business Operations Center (BOC), to learn best practices for purchasing software and applications (e.g., Canva, Adobe Creative Cloud, Mailchimp, Grammerly). When making this kind of purchase, staff must take steps for data security and business terms. Join us to learn what you need to do! We’ll have a Q&A at the end. This webinar is part of BOC’s Quarterly series: Our Two Cents.
Zoom Webinar: https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/751701428?pwd=Q1ZrbUtoQVJwMXJVRkQydUlwNytJQT09
Password: 4Learning | +1 669 900 6833 | Webinar ID: 751 701 428
Navigating the Future of AI Regulation (Connect Extension)
May 16, 2025, | 8-9 a.m. PDT
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Join the University of Maryland Extension Marylanders Online program and partners for a free webinar series exploring the cutting edge of digital literacy, health equity and inclusion.
Virtual Writing Session – Live on Zoom (NCFDD)
May 13, 2025 | 7- 8 a.m. PT
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Join us for your daily writing session! We will provide a brief introduction, we'll write for 30 minutes, and we'll close out with reflections. What counts as writing? Drafting a manuscript "counts,” but so does freewriting, generating field notes, editing and revising, outlining, mind-mapping, describing a new idea, preparing a bibliography, consolidating reviewers' comments into a list for revision, etc. Expanding your notion of what writing is will help you to reduce your resistance by making daily writing feel like a regular part of your everyday routine. Create your NCFDD account today - paid for by UC ANR.
Learning to Say No for Work-Life Balance (Connect Extension)
May 21, 2025, | 8-9 a.m. PDT
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This webinar provides actionable strategies to maintain a healthy work-life balance while meeting professional responsibilities. Attendees will learn to communicate boundaries clearly, strategically and respectfully, ensuring professional relationships remain intact. The session will explore methods for effective delegation, enabling participants to optimize their workload, focus on core priorities and reduce stress. Additionally, attendees will discover approaches to assess and sustain equilibrium between work and personal life, along with techniques to overcome common emotional barriers, such as resentment and guilt, that often hinder boundary-setting.
Creating Accessible PDFs (LinkedIn Learning): The ultimate guide to accessible PDFs
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In this course, instructor Chad Chelius explains why accessibility is important and what features an accessible PDF should include, before showing you how to make an existing PDF file accessible using tools in Adobe Acrobat. He also mentions where in the WCAG success criterion certain features can be found. Chad covers how to test the accessibility of your PDF with a screen reader, as well as some third-party tools that you can use to speed up the PDF remediation process. He also walks you through three workflows for creating accessible PDFs: one in Word, one in PowerPoint and one in InDesign. For your LinkedIn Learning account, contact UC ANR IT at help@ucanr.edu.
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