How do you describe an organization that daily changes lives, makes a difference in a child's welfare, engenders leadership in citizens and a voice to communities, provides the strategies for living a healthy lifestyle, guides children on the road to responsible adulthood, provides assistance for greater business profitability and individual financial management-in short, makes the quality of life better for every resident of the state and beyond? It's Cooperative Extension-an informal, educational, nationwide network that combines the expertise and resources of federal, state and local governments to improve people's lives.

For almost a century, University of Delaware Cooperative Extension has made a difference in the First State by providing quality educational programming to individuals and communities, based on university research and aimed at meeting the expressed needs of our constituents. The outreach arm of USDA and the American land-grant university system, Cooperative Extension takes the university to the people with programming that includes food safety; nutrition, diet and health; water quality; 4-H and youth development; sustainable agriculture; natural resources and environmental management; agricultural competitiveness and profitability; home gardening; family development and resource management; leadership and volunteer development; and personal safety-on the road, in the home and on the farm, and much more.