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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>**DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FRIDAY, JANUARY 25<sup>TH</sup>***<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">On behalf of Mark Apel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Dear County Extension Faculty and Staff:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">It’s that time of year again. This is a request for<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Summer 2019 "Externships in Sustainability" Project Proposals</b>. This past summer, the Green Fund was able to support
9 extern positions in three counties working on a variety of projects. If you are interested in the types of externship projects from this past summer, check out the Extern Reports here:</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><a href="https://arizona.box.com/s/xignk6uywm4eyi66hok4h79fq8teie6y">https://arizona.box.com/s/xignk6uywm4eyi66hok4h79fq8teie6y</a>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Once again, we’ve been funded by the UA Green Fund through August of 2019 and our budget will allow for up to 10-15 externs working no more than 35 hours/week for a maximum of 10 weeks (350 hours per extern). </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">The overall purpose of the Externship Program is to create opportunities for University of Arizona students to bring their experience, skills and enthusiasm to their communities through innovative<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><u>sustainability</u><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>projects,
by working directly with Extension agents throughout the state. At the same time, those students and Arizona’s communities become more aware of Cooperative Extension’s leadership role in applied research and innovation as it relates to sustainability. Student
Externs are also now eligible for a non-credit Student Engagement Experience notation on their transcripts.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> Project area ideas include but are not limited to: </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Rainwater Harvesting</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Recycling</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Composting</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Community/School Gardens</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Farmers’ Market Start-up or Management</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Small-scale renewable energy installation</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Energy efficiency retrofits</span><o:p></o:p></li></ol>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">This is your opportunity to submit a sustainability project idea for your county that would employ a <u>UA student</u> as an extern for the project. The timeframe for extern projects runs from mid-May to August
30.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">If you are interested in an extern to implement a county sustainability project starting in the Summer of 2019:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<ol style="margin-top:0in;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px" start="1" type="1">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Include your capacity to supervise a student as well as provide logistical support such as a desk, phone and computer</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Describe your sustainability project idea.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Identify the community or facility in your area that would benefit from such a project, including community collaborators.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Proposals should include a projected measurable impact of the extern’s activities based on project time-frame and project scope.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Proposals should be no more than 1000 words</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">.</span><o:p></o:p></li></ol>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Interns are given a minimum wage stipend ($11/hour). A small pool of funds is available for project-related materials. Projects given preference for the 2019 cycle will be based on:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo9"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">A county’s ability to recruit and support a UA student, preferably from their own community.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo9"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">If applicable, past Externship performance and compliance with reporting/evaluation requests and deadlines.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo9"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">A project meeting the principles of sustainability, i.e. positive impacts on environmental, social AND economic systems. </span><o:p></o:p></li></ol>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Please submit your project/extern ideas to Mark Apel (<a href="mailto:mapel@cals.arizona.edu)"><span style="color:#954F72">mapel@cals.arizona.edu)</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">no
later than Friday, January </span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">25<span style="color:black">, 2019</span></span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">. </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Handwriting";color:black">Mark B. Apel</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Community Resource Development<br>
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University of Arizona</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Cooperative Extension-Cochise County<br>
1140 N. Colombo Ave.<br>
Sierra Vista, Arizona 85635<br>
tel: (520) 458-8278, ext. 2181<br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">website: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="http://rurallandscapes.extension.arizona.edu/"><span style="color:blue">http://rurallandscapes.extension.arizona.edu/</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Bisbee office – </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#1F497D">Friday</span><span style="color:#1F497D"> 9-3 and by appointment</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Old Bisbee, AZ</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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