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Note: Please see the detailed task list for more up to date information.

Challenges for Outreach Fall 2009

Fundraising

Group Leader:

  • N/A

Number of team members needed:

  • Minimum of 2-3

Important team member skills:

  • Good written and oral skills
  • Ability to work closely with P.R. when finding Fundraising Contacts
  • Good analytical skills for choosing grants and reviewing previous budgets
  • Adaptability to the different requests of different organizations when looking at Requests for Proposals (Grant Writing term meaning grant application)

Challenges

  • Submit the Ford Foundation Online Form
  • Pursue contacts within Ford Foundation and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
  • Analyze former AguaClara budgets for the budget update.
  • Continue working on the Grant Text Modules Page.
  • Update the Grant Short List as grants are submitted

Public Relations

Group Leader:

  • N/A

Number of team members needed:

  • 4-6

Important team member skills:

  • Adobe Photoshop to aid graphics design
  • Adobe Illustrator to create brochure layout
  • Effective communication skills
  • Leadership skills
  • Knowledge of advertisement, business, media communications
  • Creativity and ingenuity

Challenges

  • Get more team members involved with presentations
  • Try to pull together a fact sheet for presenter. Those would be good additional info to present other than the ones already on the slides. 
  • demo plant suite case maintenance
  • Edit the Wiki to weed out outdated information
  • Update the brochure with new projects
  • Ensure continued bi-annual updates through newsletters
  • Enforce the standardized Wiki format by constant updating (not just at the end of the year)
  • Translate Wiki into Spanish including navigation menu as well as content
  • Assign specific subgroups within PR such that different types of PR can be accessed more efficiently. I.E possibly set up subgroups of PR that deal with local pr, state/national pr, campus pr, student assembly/RSO/greek life/ sports team pr.
  • Broaden the medium for pr. I.E. radio, newspapers, magazines, journals, pamphlets, brochures, banners, t-shirts, stickers, posters,etc.
  • Establish a calendar of pr events in August that seeks to promote the project itself while incorporating pr events that surround fundraising, presentations, etc.
  • Draw in students from business, entrepreneurial majors, marketing, advertising, etc.
  • Integrate the PR team with the AguaClara student group by establishing it as a subset of the group itself.
  • Work with Partnership for Honduran Health on campus to continue planning their health survey of our technology.
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