At-Large RALO and GNSO Constituency Leaders: We are pleased to report that the Community Regional Outreach Program (CROP)-FY18 Home<https://community.icann.org/display/soaceoutreach/Community+Regional+Outreac...> (CROP) Wiki space is now built out, open and ready for your plans and transaction entries. The Community Regional Outreach Pilot Program (CROPP) has been in place since FY14 - for three and one half fiscal years as a pilot program. In its various pilot phases, the CROPP showed steady growth in community interest and usage for eligible communities. Required community activity reports depicted innovative uses of the program by eligible pilot communities that employed annual outreach and engagement strategies. Following another successful implementation of the CROPP in FY17, the “pilot” program label has been removed and the activity has been moved to the Policy Development Support budget as part of the core activities to be coordinated by that staff in collaboration with the GSE team, and has been renamed CROP – removing the second “p” referring to the pilot phase. After testing a pilot outreach event capability in FY17, the CROP program will revert to focusing on regional travel for all eligible communities, rather than outreach events. All communities will be able to target five individual regional trips for FY18. GNSO Constituencies will have the option of targeting one out of region trip to maximize outreach opportunities within the five individual trips allocation. To reflect the program changes, we have also made the following modifications: * CROP Wiki space is moved from the "GSE" tab to the "SOAC/E" tab in the Community Wiki * CROP Staff email address is crop-staff@icann.org<mailto:crop-staff@icann.org> * CROP Procedures & Guidelines<https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=64947695>, Frequently Asked Questions<https://community.icann.org/display/soaceoutreach/Frequently+Asked+Questions> (FAQ), and CROP Processing Flow Diagram<https://community.icann.org/display/soaceoutreach/CROP+Processing+Flow+Diagr...> in the CROP-FY18 Home<https://community.icann.org/display/soaceoutreach/Community+Regional+Outreac...> have been updated * CROP Trip Proposal templates for the GNSO Constituencies have been updated We invite you to browse through the CROP-FY18 Home<https://community.icann.org/display/soaceoutreach/Community+Regional+Outreac...> and through the CROP Procedures & Guidelines<https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=64947695> page and email us (crop-staff@icann.org<mailto:crop-staff@icann.org>) with any of your thoughts, comments or questions on specific aspects of the FY18 program. Provisions have also been made to capture your input on our Feedback<https://community.icann.org/display/soaceoutreach/Feedback-CROP+FY18> page. Your continued feedback now and throughout the course of the program will help us identify further areas of improvement, flag issues we may not have anticipated, and demonstrate that this type of program can continue to meet its goals and objectives. We are looking forward to collaborating with all of you over this fiscal year! Please don’t hesitate to reach out to me (benedetta.rossi@icann.org<mailto:benedetta.rossi@icann.org>) regarding GNSO CROP-related matters, and to Janice Douma Lange (janice.lange@icann.org<mailto:janice.lange@icann.org>) for At-Large CROP-related matters for FY18. Kind regards, Janice Douma Lange (At-Large CROP Administrator) and Benedetta Rossi (GNSO CROP Administrator). For a complete list of individuals who have CROP duties, please see our CROP Contacts<https://community.icann.org/display/soaceoutreach/CROP+Contacts> page and email us here: crop-staff@icann.org<mailto:crop-staff@icann.org> -- Benedetta Rossi | Policy & Community Engagement Analyst benedetta.rossi@icann.org<mailto:benedetta.rossi@icann.org> | +33.610.38.27.02 ICANN | Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers