Virginia Cooperative Extension

Organizations based in Virginia

Virginia Cooperative Extension

Type	Federal-State-County Partnership
Established	1914
Director	Mike Gutter
Location	Headquarters Blacksburg , in Virginia , United States
Affiliations	Virginia Tech and VSU
Website	www.ext.vt.edu

Virginia Cooperative Extension provides resources and educational outreach to the Commonwealth of Virginia’s more than seven million residents in the areas of agriculture and natural resources, family and consumer sciences, community viability, and 4-H youth development. Since the passage of the Smith-Lever Act of 1914, it has operated as the primary in-state outreach service for the commonwealth’s two land-grant universities: Virginia Tech and Virginia State University. Today, Virginia Cooperative Extension has a network of faculty and staff at two universities, 107 county and city offices, 11 agricultural research and Extension centers, and six 4-H educational centers.^[1]