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    Build a Career with Alabama Extension

    The Alabama Cooperative Extension System (Alabama Extension) strives to bring cutting-edge discoveries from the nation’s colleges and univ...
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    Community Resource Development

    What is Community Development? Community resource development (CRD) is about bringing people together to use local talents, ideas, and reso...
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    Virginia Caples Lifelong Learning Institute

    VCLLI Courses & Activities The Virginia Caples Lifelong Learning Institute (VCLLI) offers year-round activities—such as in-person or ...
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    Eco-Friendly Fridays Webinar Series

    Eco-Friendly Fridays is a free environmental education webinar series that offers effective best management practices for safeguarding...
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    Urban Green: Back 2 Basics Wednesdays Webinar Series

    Join the Alabama Extension Home Horticulture team for the Urban Green: Back 2 Basics Wednesdays webinar series. This live, online educatio...
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  • Three elementary-school children smile as the carry a recycling bin. The words, "Lend and EAR: Environmental Awareness through Reading" appear to the left of the children.

    Lend an EAR—Virtual Storytime Series

    Virtual Storytime Series • Interactive • Environmental Learning Fun Education for youth in the 3rd through 5th grades.  From kinderga...
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    Small Business Café

    What is Small Business Café? Imagine a bustling coffee shop full of business owners, entrepreneurs, and experts. They have all come togeth...
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    Family Life Center

    The Family Life Center (FLC) is a partnership among the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, the Huntsville Housing Authority, and Alabama ...
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    Forest Friends: Lend an EAR Storytime in Dothan

    Natural Resource education for youth in kindergarten through third grades. A child’s reading ability flourishes between kindergarten an...
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  • The ribbon cutting event for the Alabama Extension STEM and Nutrition mobile labs.

    STEM and Nutrition Mobile Education Labs

    In the spirit of early-day educational tools like the Jesup wagon, the Alabama Cooperative Extension System at Alabama A&M University pu...
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