PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:
to help people improve their lives and communities through an educational process that uses scientific knowledge focused on issues critical to the economic, agricultural, societal, health/safety, and environmental progress of all Americans. Identify and solve their farm, home, and community problems through the practical application of research findings of USDA and the land-grant colleges and Universities. The Cooperative Extension System is a future-oriented, self-renewing, national educational network providing excellence in programs that focus on contemporary issues and needs of people.

 ELIGIBLE FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES:
1. AGRICULTURE;
- Marketing;
- Technical Assistance, Information and Services;
2. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT;
- Rural Community Development;
- Recreation;
- Technical Assistance and Services;
3. CONSUMER PROTECTION;
- Information and Educational Services;
4. EDUCATION;
- Health Education and Training;
- Higher Education - General;
5. ENERGY;
- Conservation;
6. ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY;
- Research, Education, Training;
7. FOOD AND NUTRITION;
- Research;
8. HEALTH;
- Libraries, Information and Education Services;
- Maternity, Infants, Children;
9. INFORMATION AND STATISTICS;
- General;
- Libraries, Clearinghouses, Archives;
10. INCOME SECURITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES;
- Youth Services;

 WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS PROGRAM:
- Anyone/general public;

 WHO CAN APPLY:
- State (includes District of Columbia, public institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- U.S. Territories and possessions (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals);