Grant Writing
- Facilitate public and private partnerships for program development, project implementation, and securing of financial resources. Identify potential grants applicable to current and future client needs.
- Research traditional and non-traditional funding opportunities.
- Lead stakeholder meetings to identify goals, objectives, methodology, partners, and work plans necessary for pursuing funding opportunities.
- Generate budgets. Write narratives for grant applications.
- Manage grant projects: deliverables, timelines, budgets, narrative reporting.
Education
- Work with funding organizations, commodity associations, agricultural producers, and/or academic institutions to identify educational needs and develop programs and curricula.
- Create integrated marketing programs to encourage adoption of strategic innovations.
Agricultural Tours for Producers
- Intensive, technical tours designed to assist agricultural producers in addressing key themes (e.g. quality fruit, mechanization, etc.) or exploring a particular region.
- Technical and Touristic Tours with an emphasis on production agriculture.
Food Safety Education for Producers
Management
- Facilitate strategic and tactical planning.
- Educate stakeholders in the development and use of work plans.
- Coordinate implementation efforts via working with diverse groups and representatives to achieve consensus and direct progress towards common goals.
- Provide management expertise to organizations and projects.
Evaluation
- Develop utilization-focused evaluation methodologies appropriate to client, stakeholders, & situation.
- Conduct benchmarking activities.
- Establish system(s) for documenting impacts.
- Identify stakeholder readiness to participate in and/or embrace proposed changes.
