Extension Center – Durham County

 Check out our 2011 Report to the Community

Growing and Nuturing our Local Community:  2011 Accomplishments & Outcomes

The 2011 Report to the Community: Growing and Nuturing our Local Community reflects on the results of the work of Durham County Cooperative Extension in 2010. The Durham County Center offers programs in Early Childhood Development, Youth Development, Consumer and Family Education, Agriculture and Horticulture, and Community Capacity Building; including: 4-H, Project Build, Welcome Baby, Kids Voting, Briggs Avenue Gardens, Strengthening Families, Durham County ACCESS & much more.

In 2010, we:

  • Leveraged more than 1.4 million dollars in grants from public and private funders to address local priorities.
  • Logged 35,727 volunteer hours by trained volunteers.
  • Supported an average of 191 monthly educational events and meetings in our Durham County site.
  • Made over 120,246 contacts with area residents.

 For more information, read the full report HERE.  To reach Durham Cooperative Extension, please call (919) 560-0525.

Empowering People…Providing Solutions….. This is the work of your County Extension Center. Visit our newly renovated Center at 721 Foster Street to learn more about the many opportunities for children, families and neighborhoods.  Many resources are also conveniently located on this website.

Welcome,
The Durham Staff


NEWS

Extension & Community Association Celebrates Centennial with Commemorative Bricks
Two-thousand thirteen is a significant year for the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service and for North Carolina families. This is the centennial anniversary of the founding of the Extension  MORE »Posted: 3/8/13

Help families in need with Coat and Diaper Drive
Durham Cooperative Extension’s Welcome Baby Program, is seeking the help of the Durham community with the Coat and Diaper Drive, now through January 18, 2013. The Welcome Baby Giving Closest has depleted  MORE »Posted: 12/10/12

Parent & Family Advocacy and Support Training (PFAST) Starts October 9th
Do you want to better navigate our public and charter schools to help your child succeed?   Have you received your child’s first progress report and it is not what  MORE »Posted: 10/5/12

Program Teaches Participants to Shop Smart
Read all about it! Click Here This article was written by Natalie Hampton http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/agcomm/news-center/perspectives/program-helps-participants-learn-to-shop-smart/Posted: 9/18/12

Soil Solutions Training for Educators
Soils Solutions is aligned to meet the North Carolina’s third grade science standard course of study in plant and soils, the curriculum draws from current research and knowledge in  MORE »Posted: 7/18/12

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