- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
The graphic design team worked throughout the fall to update logos in the UC ANR brand family, in English and Spanish, as well as an array of downloadable templates. As we begin 2020, everyone should update their branded materials such as email signatures, PowerPoints, posters and fact sheets with the latest UC ANR logos and templates from the ANR Communications Toolkit. Information and guidance on branding is also available in the toolkit, including a FAQ page.
“It's a new year – make sure you've got the new look,” said Linda Forbes, Strategic Communications director, with a gentle reminder.
Additional brand training materials are in development, and Forbes welcomes any branding questions you may have in the meantime. She can be reached at lforbes@ucanr.edu and (530) 750-1204.
- Author: Jodi Azulai
New skills? Extension Delivery? Building Support? Personal, Team and Office Management? Check out the Learning and Development website. Future webinars are posted and past webinar recordings are archived here.
January
Intro to Contracts & Grants and the Grant Tracking System
January 29, 2020
9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
This training is for academics and staff who are new, or just need a refresher, to submitting proposals for external funding. We will provide an introduction to the Office of Contracts and Grants including an overview of the proposal submission process and the Grant Tracking System. Zoom access: https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/502451113 |1 669 900 6833 | Webinar ID: 502 451 113
Experiential Learning and Reflective Practice - Webinar 2
January 30, 2020
1 p.m.-2 p.m.
Making our educational practices public: There's value in the conversation. Reflective practice as an ongoing “check in” strategy can help educators advance their practice. Reflective practice is enhanced when educators share and discuss ideas with colleagues. Zoom access: https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/502451113 669 900 6833 | Webinar ID: 502 451 113
New Leadership Literacies for the Future
January 31, 2020
11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. PST
Register here by Jan. 29.
Futurist Bob Johansen, Cornell Cooperative Extension, has thoughts about the future. He feels the world will become explosively more connected. The historical practice of centralized organizations will become brittle in a future where authority is radically decentralized. Rigid hierarchies will give way to liquid structures. Because of technological advances and demographic changes, most leaders aren't ready for this future.
What could this mean for us personally and for Cooperative Extension? Join us for a Learning Circle to discuss the transitions organizations are making and how we can prepare for these changes. We will take a look at a part of Johansen's New Leadership Literacies and his vision of how leaders need to prepare themselves for a new way of leading organizations and people.
2020 Grant Essential Summit
March 2-3, 2020
Deadline to apply is Friday, Jan. 31, by noon.
We are currently accepting applications for the 2020 Grant Essentials Summit, a professional development program to promote the grantsmanship and leadership capacity of extension researchers and educators at UC ANR. This two-day program will feature:
- Free-writing (productivity)
- Team Science (justification, exercise, methods)
- Finding and evaluating funding opportunities
- Non-proposal communication
- Narrative strategies
- The review process
- And more!
Application Process: Email ANR Program Support Unit, or call Julia Kalika at (530) 750-1380 or (530) 750-1361.
Course Content: Vanity Campbell, Coordinator, Proposal Development Services, UC ANR Office of Contracts and Grants, vcampbell@ucanr.edu, (530) 750-1329.
Conflict Competence for Staff Register with UC Learning Center
January 29, 2020 – UC Davis Health, Sacramento
February 27, 2020 – UC Davis Campus, Davis
April 23, 2020 – UC Davis Health, Sacramento
June 23, 2020 – UC Davis Campus, Davis
This highly interactive course provides tools to help you effectively prevent and resolve conflicts at work. You will learn strategies to successfully communicate your needs, lower others' defenses, and navigate emotionally charged situations. Please note that this course has significant overlap with “Conflict Competence for Managers and Supervisors,” but focuses on interpersonal conflict dynamics with colleagues and supervisors. Travel is not covered.
Conflict Competence for Supervisors Register with UC Learning Center
February 25, 2020 – UC Davis Health, Sacramento
April 30, 2020; June 23, 2020 – UC Davis Campus, Davis
May 20, 2020 – UC Davis Health, Sacramento
At the end of this course, you will develop a personalized plan to address your specific conflict management needs. Please note that this course has significant overlap with “Conflict Competence for Staff” but includes an additional focus on managing conflict from a leadership position.
February
Impact Collaborative Facilitator Training Register Here
Registration deadline February 13, 2020
February 18-20, 2020
This training will provide individuals with a new way of looking at program and project development to help new and existing programs across your states and institutions identify gaps in their planning, ensure they are most ready for implementation, and have explored all considerations to maximize local impact. Recommendations for selecting individuals to participate include:
- Individuals such as a program leaders
- Individuals that work closely with your leadership team
- Possess strong confidence in facilitation skills
- Can be effective in working alongside your leadership team and other program leaders to catalyze innovation throughout your organization.
Individuals must have the permission of their Extension Administrator or Director to participate.
Experiential Learning and Reflective Practice - Webinar 3
Feb 20, 2020
10:00 -11:00 am
Sustaining momentum around experiential learning and reflective practice through a Community of Practice. What are steps are needed to continue my professional growth? Zoom access: https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/502451113 669 900 6833 | Webinar ID: 502 451 113
Cultivating Youth Scientists with Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR)
February 25, 2020
11:00-11:30am
Our Experiences from the ANR Grant Project: Developing a Culturally-Relevant Civic Science Approach to Improving Scientific Literacy for Latino Youth
Participants will:
- Become familiar with the YPAR model and its potential for improving scientific literacy and civic engagement.
- Learn about how YPAR aligns with civic science.
- Improve understanding of the current ANR-funded project in Sonoma, Mendocino, and Humboldt counties.
https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/751701428 +1 669 900 6833 or +1 646 558 8656 Webinar ID: 751 701 428
Proposal Development and Proposal Process
Wednesday, February 26
9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Learn about the steps involved in the proposal submission process from developing your idea to submission. We'll go over identifying funding opportunities, developing the project concept, building collaborative teams, drafting the proposal, submitting to OCG for review, and submission to the sponsor. https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/502451113 1 669 900 6833 | Webinar ID: 502 451 113
Anytime learning
Why Conflict is Good and How Managers Can Embrace It LinkedIn Learning - Managing Team Conflict Succeeding as a leader means being a master of relationships. You need to know how to connect with people at all levels in the organization through the good and the bad—especially the bad.
Because where there's conflict, there's an opportunity to grow. Read More.
4 Ways to Get Noticed for the Job You Want (With Video) LinkedIn Learning
Finding a great job starts with a great resume. Easier said than done, right? If you want to get noticed for the job you want, you need to craft a resume that's worthy of more than six seconds. In the LinkedIn Learning course Writing a Resume with Stacey Gordon, you will learn professional tips to showcase your skills, stand out from the crowd, and land a job you want.
Everyone can learn something new.
ANR Learning & Development
- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
After earning his bachelor's degree in animal science and a secondary teaching credential at UC Davis, Dasher began his career teaching high school vocational agriculture for five years on a reservation for Native Americans in Mendocino County.
In 1980, Dasher, who raised farm animals as a boy in 4-H, joined UC Cooperative Extension as the 4-H advisor for Contra Costa County, then for Placer and Nevada counties in 1983. In 1990, he transferred to San Diego County, where he served as a 4-H youth advisor until he retired in 2011.
“He represented the best of old 4-H values and new traits we needed – tolerance and inclusion,” said Rose Hayden-Smith, emeritus UC Cooperative Extension advisor, who worked with Dasher when she was the 4-H advisor in Ventura County. “Just a really humorous – but pointed in his humor – wonderful person with lots of common sense.”
While San Diego County had a very strong community club program, Dasher created new models for 4-H to extend youth development to communities of diverse cultures, reaching out to Hispanic, African American, Islamic and Native American children.
In urban neighborhoods, Dasher partnered with the San Diego County 4-H Youth Education Foundation, which funded afterschool programs. He used the afterschool sites to conduct applied research projects and pilot UCCE curriculum. Dasher worked with the San Diego County Office of Education Migrant Education to create leadership clubs of migrant teens in afterschool settings. He received federal funding in 2009 to launch an afterschool program in the most economically depressed part of the county, exposing San Diego County youth to 4-H science literacy curriculum and opportunities to interact with positive, older role models.
Dasher made it a point to elevate the county's 4-H volunteers to the level of “middle management,” where they could feel a greater sense of ownership and responsibility. He provided 4-H volunteers with training, organization and evaluation programs.
“The strategy was to develop a self-sustaining volunteer corps to operate an experiential-based educational program for youth,” he said in 2011.
Over the years, Dasher focused his work on adolescent issues, science literacy and volunteer development. Dasher and several local partners received a three-year, $500,000 grant from the state Office of Criminal Justice and Juvenile Delinquency Prevention to develop community-based collaboratives that address adolescent issues.
The project aimed to develop assets in youth. They established three youth centers, safe places where adolescents could interact with caring adults and access resources that gave them the capacity to contribute to the community. Many of the youth attended state 4-H leadership conferences in Sacramento.
The program received a second $500,000 grant for another three years to extend the programs to different age groups, and, in time, the programs became permanent to address youth and family issues in San Diego County.
Because of his work on the youth center project, Dasher was recruited by Cal State San Marcos to participate in a specialized graduate program in sociology. For his master's research, he studied volunteer roles in mentoring.
Later in his career, Dasher became active in administration of the 4-H Youth Development program at the statewide level.
“His good nature and intelligence added a wonderful component to those of us who partnered in the swath of counties that started in Solano across to the more mountainous counties of Placer-Nevada and El Dorado,” said Diane Metz, emeritus nutrition, family and consumer sciences advisor in Solano and Yolo counties.
After he retired, Dasher started a small sheep ranch in San Diego and maintained close ties to 4-H.
Dasher is survived by his husband, Robert Treat.
Read more about Dasher's career at https://ucanr.edu/news/?uid=1403&ds=191.
- Author: Jane Stahl
- Author: Mimi Powers
- Author: Tristan Davis
Following the 2010 gas pipeline explosion that devastated San Bruno's Crestmoor neighborhood, the Community Grants Fund was created with a portion of the settlement between Pacific Gas & Electric Company and the City of San Bruno. This annual grant fund supports new and existing programs that benefit the San Bruno community. To fund the grants, the San Bruno Community Foundation combined $200,000 of its own funds with a $100,000 grant from YouTube and Google.org.
In this fourth year of the Community Grants Fund, the Board of Directors of the San Bruno Community Foundation approved grant awards totaling $300,000 to local community organizations for 29 programs, one of which was the San Bruno/South San Francisco 4-H Club, which received a $9,100 grant.
4-H club officers President Tristan Davis, Vice President Alex Meyerhoff and Treasurer Adam Zbriger, as well as club parents and volunteers, attended a Foundation meeting to thank them for their support.
“As president, I am very thankful for the grant funding that will sustain the club's programs," Davis told the board, expressing the gratitude of the entire club. "After 12 years of membership, I have learned countless life skills from participating in a variety of club projects. I am happy to know that younger members will also have this opportunity.”
The San Bruno/SSF 4-H Club was one of the recommended grantees selected from a competitive pool of 51 applications. The selection panel weighed the benefits of the proposed programs to the San Bruno community.
“We're so grateful to the Board for this award,” said Mimi Powers, co-community leader of the club. “It will be used to continue improving the San Bruno/SSF 4-H farm, give scholarships to youth to attend workshops and 4-H camp, enhance funding for projects, and, most importantly, keep 4-H affordable to families in our community.”
“It was very inspirational for us all to see the Board in action and witness how the city was able to turn such a catastrophic and sad event into something so positive for the community,” said 4-H volunteer Jane Stahl. “The list of recipients was amazing! Grants were awarded for cultural arts, exchange trips to Norita, Japan, scholarships for girls to attend a week-long STEM camp at Stanford, help for parents of special education children, relationship abuse, cyber bullying, combating homelessness, child development, mental health, and much, much more.”
For a complete list of recipients and more information on the San Bruno Community Foundation, go to https://www.sbcf.org.
- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
Effective Jan. 1, 2020, the university's mileage reimbursement rates for expenses incurred in connection with the business use of a private automobile will decrease in accordance with the Internal Revenue Service standard mileage rates published in IRS Notice 2019-215.
- The reimbursement rate for the use of a private automobile for university business travel will decrease from 58 cents per mile to 57. 5 cents per mile.
- The reimbursement rate for driving an automobile in connection with a move or relocation will decrease from 20 cents per mile to 17 cents per mile.
The mileage calculator in AggieTravel has been adjusted to reflect the new rate.
