Publication | How to Run for Elected Office in Kentucky

By Beka Burton, CEDIK Economic Development Extension Specialist
Published on Feb. 15, 2023

Elected officials are an active community partner in economic development. We provide a two page guide that has a step-by-step process for registration, as well as the website URLs and contact information you will need. Download Full Publication  

Publication | How to Respond to a Request for Information

By Beka Burton, CEDIK Economic Development Extension Specialist
Published on Feb. 15, 2023

A community can receive a Request for Information (RFI) from either a business directly or from the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development. It will typically include the following: a project description, the project investment, and an approximate number of new jobs that will be created.

Article | Arts in Health Disaster Recovery

By Jessica Evans, Community Arts Senior Extension Associate
Published on Nov. 10, 2022

During trying times, when local health services may be strained or overwhelmed due to emergent physical needs in communities, art can be an integral part of disaster recovery efforts. Art can be a pathway for recognizing common stress responses to trauma and can provide some beneficial ways to cope with it.

Article | Damage Assessment, Claims and Relief Aid

By Jessica Evans, Community Arts Senior Extension Associate and Melissa Bond, Community Arts Extension Program Leader
Published on Sep. 1, 2022

As communities recover from natural disasters, arts and cultural organizations face a unique set of challenges.

Project | Winchester Design Studio

By Community Design
Published on Sep. 1, 2022

In 2019 CEDIK and the College of Design at the University of Kentucky launched the Winchester Design Studio.

Article | Arts Preparedness

By Jessica Evans, Community Arts Senior Extension Associate
Published on Aug. 17, 2022

Emergency Response Planning Disaster never strikes at a convenient time. In fact, if you could plan the timing for a disaster, chances are you might still not be ready when it arrives. A good plan will help your organization develop categorized strategies for managing unforeseen circumstances.

Publication | Ripple Effects Mapping

By Dr. Nicole Breazeale, Department of Community and Leadership Development
Published on Jul. 1, 2022

Much of what we do in Extension is educational in nature. Our evaluation methods have thus historically focused on individual-level impacts, such as what our participants have learned or are doing differently because of our programming (Chazdon, 2022). But what about the broad community-level impacts of our work?

Report | The Importance of Agriculture for Kentucky

By Dr. Alison Davis, Professor and Executive Director, CEDIK and Simona Balazs, Research Director, CEDIK
Published on Mar. 22, 2022

The total economic impact of agriculture in Kentucky in 2019 equaled $49.6 billion, representing an 8.8% increase from the economic impact of $45.6 billion in 2012. Download Full Publication

Publication | Growing Successful Community Gardens

By Amanda Beavin, Bethany Pratt, and Dr. Nicole Breazeale, Department of Community and Leadership Development
Published on Mar. 16, 2022

How do we make community gardens more successful and help them persist through time with less reliance on Extension?

Publication | Story Circles: A Powerful Engagement Technique

By Dr. Nicole Breazeale, Department of Community and Leadership Development
Published on Dec. 1, 2021

A story circle is a highly structured engagement technique that comes out of the field of cultural community development. Story circles involve a group of people who each share a personal experience based on a specific storytelling prompt, with no conversation allowed until the debriefing and analysis stage at the end (“cross- talk”).