Recommended Requirements:
1.
Strength of program plan and environmental impact
(
Weighting 50%)
a.
Agricultural and Environmental Situational Statement – Provide the current state of
agriculture’s impact on your identified priority watershed
i.
Outline how you determined key priority environmental needs/issues.
ii.
Information and Extension Needs Assessment – Considering the feedback,
informal or formal, from producers, describe the key information and
extension needs of your producers.
b.
Program goals, strategies, actions and performance measures
i.
Are the goals SMART: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time
Specific
ii.
Describe how you will move from the current situation to your goal? This
includes the manpower requirements and skill set
iii.
Do the activities support the goals/strategies?
iv.
How will you measure success? Consider qualitative and quantitative
measures such as attendance numbers, surveys, one-on-one meetings with
clients, etc.
c.
Innovation - Within your goals, strategies and/or actions you are demonstrating
new ways to deliver information or a new way of delivering extension.
d.
Environmental Impact - Within your goals, strategies and/or actions you are
demonstrating how your program will have an impact on improving the
environment.
2.
Program History and Continuity
(
weighting 20%)
a.
What is the value of continuing the program? What do they want to build on in the
future based on the success that they have had in the past?
b.
List successes from the past three years, for both Environmental Funding Stream
programs AND municipally supported environmental programs
i.
Must report on successes/how goals were achieved if Environmental
Funding Stream dollars were received under the 2011-2013 ASB Grant
Program
3.
Participating Municipalities
(
weighting 10%)
a.
Are the roles and responsibilities of each Participating Municipality clearly
identified?
4.
Matching Contributions
(
weighting 10%)
a.
Are the roles and responsibilities of each contributor clearly identified?
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