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  • Coming Together for Racial Understanding

    Unique Value Statement: Coming Together for Racial Understanding is a dialogue-to-change process for communities seeking new pathways for working together across racial/ethnic lines that seeks to foster understanding and build trust in order to take informed collective action for meaningful change, unlike required DEI training alone which seldom seeks to develop trusting relationships among participants.

  • National Digital Education Extension Team

    NDEET is made up of Extension professionals and interested partners passionate about digital applications. NDEET believes Extension can play a unique and significant role in educating communities across the country on the challenges and opportunities of the digital age. NDEET is also a network of faculty, educators, and specialists that compiles a list of educational and planning resources used to increase awareness, access & availability and adoption & utilization of broadband. In addition, NDEET conducts research to further contribute knowledge and best practices to these efforts.

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    Heirs' Property

    The USDA defines heirs’ property as land that has been passed down informally from generation-to-generation. In most cases, it involves landowners who died without a will. Heirs’ property is land owned “in common” by all of the heirs, regardless of whether they live on the land, pay the taxes, or have ever set foot on the land. Geographic areas heavily impacted: Appalachia, Colonias of South Texas, Mississippi River Delta Region, Native American Tribal Lands, and Southern Cresent Region (Blackbelt Region)