JOIN EDEN
Why Join? The best reason to join EDEN is because it will help you provide services to the citizens of the communities you serve, who are affected by natural and man-made disasters. EDEN connects you with other Extension professionals doing disaster work.
As an EDEN delegate, you become a member of a community of Extension disaster professionals, here are some delegate opportunities:
- Build your multi-state program portfolio; join an EDEN committee or working group.
- Increase your knowledge and skills by collaborating with other EDEN delegates and agency representatives.
- Help produce EDEN educational materials, learning modules, workshops, webinars, and information campaigns.
- Initiate collaboration or exchange ideas and needs through the EDEN listserv.
- Let EDEN help you develop as a disaster professional. EDEN and its members regularly host local, regional and national exercises to increase capacity within local communities and the Extension system.
- Use EDEN marketing resources to be a voice for EDEN and Extension disaster education.
- Represent EDEN and Extension disaster education at meetings and conferences.
Becoming a Delegate
Institutions, rather than individuals, are EDEN members. Institutional representatives serve as delegates, with one representative serving as the point of contact.
If your Extension Service is an EDEN member, you can become a delegate by contacting your EDEN Point of Contact (POC) and asking to join. Each state has a page showing the state’s Extension and Land-Grant disaster resources and its delegates. Participants may represent any area of specialization. Some members may include campus faculty that do not have an official Extension appointment but are interested in contributing to the network.
The POC is designated by the Extension Director or Administrator and shown on the state page under a special heading. Once you’ve contacted your POC, they will request that you be added to the delegate list for your institution. After you complete a delegate profile, you will then be added to the directory and subscribed to the listserv.
Becoming a Member Institution
Institutions become EDEN members when the Extension Director/Administrator submits an EDEN Cooperative Agreement to one of the EDEN officers and designates a point of contact.
Document for Directors and Administrators
This two-page document gives a brief explanation of EDEN. The director or administrator may wish to review this document when considering whether to sign the cooperative agreement to join EDEN.
Document for Directors and Administrators
EDEN Cooperative Agreement
The agreement is to be submitted with a letter from the director or administrator of the Extension Service program that introduces the institution’s delegate(s) to EDEN. Signed agreements may be sent to the EDEN Project Coordinator.
