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AguaClara Outreach Team

Motivation and Objectives

The Outreach Team is a vital and unique part of AguaClara that allows engineering and non-engineering majors to focus their attention on funding and promoting the organization. AguaClara is attempting to sustain itself financially while publicizing and promoting its achievements and seeking contacts to further its mission.

The goals of the Outreach Team include raising awareness of AguaClara both in the Cornell and Ithaca community, and raising funds to build plants and support those working for AguaClara in Honduras. The Outreach Team is constantly looking for new funding opportunities to expand on campus research.

The team is also responsible for establishing outreach team has three major goals. The first goal is to raise awareness of AguaClara to the general public and to the Cornell Community. The second goal is fundraising both to build plants in Honduras and for conducting research to improve and design AguaClara plants at Cornell. Finally we need to establish processes, precedents, and standards for future outreach teams.

Fundraising

We plan to work on fundraising this semester. We will develop contacts with donor organizations and establish a database of potential donors. We will work to fill out grant applications and other fundraising methods as needed throughout the semester.

Precedents

We will work to document our procedures and methods to make outreach easier for future outreach teams.

Other tasks

We will work to recruit other people based on skills needed. Potential examples included an art/graphic design related major to work on promotional materials, someone with educational experience to work on developing a lesson plan and any other skills that may contribute to AguaClara. We will work with the project team leader to bring in appropriate speakers to teach the team about areas related to AguaClara.

General Goals

• Establish processes to facilitate fundraising in the future.
• Establish contacts to help with fundraising.
• Establish a database of potential donors
• Make the AguaClara project known to the Cornell community, and surrounding areas.
• Inform as many people as possible of what AguaClara does.
• Get the Cornell community involved in the project, by teaching them what it is, and how they can help.Create better outreach materials.

Outreach Opportunities

Plans for upcoming outreach events can be found on the Events page. Information regarding the type of event and who to contact for specific details can be found there as well.

Our Work

Contacts

• Cornell Contacts
• Foundations
• Funding and Global Contacts
• Grants
• Honduran Contacts
• International NGO Contacts
• Microfinance Organizations

Events

• Meeting with Larry Harrington and Alice Pell
• Meeting with Paul Pollak
• Meeting with Jessica Traynor
• Events

Goals and Strategies

• Outreach Minutes
• Outreach Goals
• Fundraising Strategy
• Making AguaClara a student organization

Graphics

• New Options for Logos
• Posters

Literature

team members by documenting procedures and methods which make it easier for future members to continue the tasks of fundraising, recruiting and creating awareness.

EDIT: Moved into Public Relations subteam. Additional teams (business model, etc.) to be added on a year-to-year basis if necessary. - Sept 2011

Semester Goals

Further information can be accessed below:

Fundraising

Public Relations

AguaClara's Benefit Concert

Resources for Team Members

Outreach Contacts

Resources: Includes graphics, literature, and presentation preparation.

Meeting Minutes from Previous Semesters

Guidelines: Be sure to conform to Outreach Wiki organization.

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