Creating Public Value with Animal Health and Welfare Programs
Last week I spoke about creating public value with animal health and welfare programs at the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) Animal Health Forum in Guelph.
Looking back at public value in Journal of Extension
I was browsing through this blog and noticed that, while I had highlighted the April 2011 issue of Journal of Extension that featured articles on public value, I never highlighted my original JOE article.
In April 2004, I outlined how University of Minnesota Extension’s public value work began in a JOE article titled “Identifying the Public Value of Extension Programs”. Here is the abstract:
Extension’s bias toward public value
Key to making the case for funding for Extension is our ability to explain why Extension–and not some other public or nonprofit organization–should provide programming aimed at improving conditions in the state. In other words, we need to answer the “Why Extension?” question. When I ask Extension professionals to name Extension’s strengths relative to other possible program providers, the first response is usually that Extension provides sound, unbiased, research-based programs. Case closed, right?