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- Edit the Wiki to weed out outdated information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.