January 26, 2016
2016 Annual Report to Legislature Delivered
The 2016 K-State Research and Extension annual report has been delivered today to all Kansas Senate and House members with a personal letter that will provide each legislator with local contacts (email and phone numbers) of the Extension unit director and board chair from all local Extension units within the given legislator's district.
We will be sending copies of the Research and Extension report to all local units and departmental offices for distribution. For local Extension units, we offer some suggestions on how you might use these reports to market Research and Extension along with the work ongoing within your local Extension unit.
• Deliver a copy of the report to people you feel are influential in the community. This could be local elected officials, board members, and civic, community, and business leaders.
• Organize the programming work you are doing related to the five grand challenges, and present the impact of that work to your extension council and other civic and community groups (Chamber of Commerce, Rotary, Optimists, etc.).
• Share the legislative report with local media and write a column and/or record a program that highlights the report and the local work you are doing related to the challenges. Feel free to use some of the language in the report to introduce the grand challenge and its context and then add your work that is relevant. Also, remember to highlight strong results from your programs.
• Share the website information, http://www.ksu.edu/challenges that ties to the legislative report in all your meetings and communications. Also, you can draw from the website to make your work easier – using content presented there.
• Emphasize how K-State Research and Extension is a system within Kansas State University that brings the relevant, vital research and information you can trust to help people, businesses and communities solve problems, develop skills and build a better future.
Have a great week!