PROGRAM PLANNING

Program planning is central to the educational mission of University of Wisconsin-Extension. It brings people together to clarify and develop goals, strategies and action steps to serve the people of Wisconsin. On an ongoing basis, faculty and staff engage in a variety of planning exercises: annual plans of work, multi-year plans of work, and every 4 years the organization as a whole engages in a statewide program planning process that solicits broad citizen input. The Program Development and Evaluation Unit is responsible for supporting these individual and organizational planning efforts through training, resource development and evaluation.

• Cooperative Extension Program Planning in Wisconsin, Terry Gibson, editor, 2001 (63 pages, 243 KB)

• Connections: A "How-to" Handbook for Developing Extension Long-Range Plans and Major Programs by Laverne B. Forest, Connie McKenna and Jane Donovan, 1986 (58 pages, 1.4 MB)
• Program Planning in the Village of P, in Real Audio format,  1980 (25 minutes)
• Teamwork in Cooperative Extension Programs by Terry Gibson, Jeanne Moore and E. J. Lueder, 1980 (32 pages, 351 KB)
• Appeals: An Extension Programming Tool by Terry Gibson and Trisha Day, 1976 (27 pages, 845 KB)
• Strategies for Involvement by Terry Gibson and Trisha Day, 1976 (21 pages, 161 KB)

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MULTI YEAR PROGRAM PLANNING

• Resources for State Team Evaluation Workshops
  • Teams Success Story Template (1 page, 25 KB)
  • Program Development Template (1 page, 76 KB)

  • Evaluation Plan Worksheet (1 page, 109 KB)

• Program Planning (Net ID and Password Required)
• Overview of Multi-Year Program Planning, 2004 and Beyond (2 pages, 65 KB)

Resources from the Previous 4 Year Planning Process - These documents were developed by University of Wisconsin-Extension to aid Wisconsin counties with statewide program priority setting for 2000-2004, a process designed to solicit feedback from Extension stakeholders, partners and other community resources. These resources will help counties that need to begin the planning process right away. Revised materials for the next planning process will be made available by June 30, 2003.

• Guidelines for Program Priority Setting 2000-2004 (96 pages, 459 KB)
• 1999 Trends Analysis (88 pages, 357 KB)

RELATED LINKS OF INTEREST

• UW-Extension Planning and Results System

• UW-Extension Agriculture & Natural Resources Guidelines for Individual Programming & Reporting -Templates

• UW Extension CNRED Planning & Reporting

• UW-Extension Family Living Planning (Net ID and Password Required)

• UW-Extension 4-H Youth Development Planning & Reporting

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