Project Assignment
Your assignment is to create, plan and organize, implement, and evaluate a fund raising event for the organization to which you’ve been assigned. Your event must follow the rules/guidelines set forth by the organization for community fund raising. It must not violate the values, goals or mission of the organization. (Even before you begin brainstorming event ideas you should learn what you can/cannot do.) You have been assigned a contact at the information – that individual’s name and information is located on the bottom on this sheet.
You will have access to your organization’s image and other identifying information. Talk to your contact about how/where you can and cannot use this.
You should assign one person from your group to be the official liaison between your group and the contact at the organization. That person must meet with me before contacting the organization.
Your first task is to understand your organization thoroughly. Plan to spend 4-6 hours at your organization volunteering as a group sometime in the next two weeks.
Who is your organization?
What is their structure? (They may have a international, regional, and local components
learn about all of them)
Who do they support? In what ways?
What ideas are central to their mission and values?
You will be giving a 5-minute presentation that will include this information, as well as a proposal of your project, on March 8.
Consider proceeding in the following order:
- Learn about the organization through Google and your time spent there. Learn what you can/cannot do according to their fund raising guidelines.
- Begin brainstorming ideas for your event. Come up with 2 final ideas.
- Discuss your ideas with the contact at the organization. Get her/his final approval on one.
- Perform a Team Goals Analysis (See book and packet). (This will need to be in your final group portfolio.)
- Construct a PERT model of your plan (See packet).(This will need to be in your final group portfolio.)
- Set forth on organizing your event.
Some things to consider:
Goals for the event are key: what do we want the outcomes to be?
Who is the audience we’re appealing to with our fundraiser?
What do we know about this audience? Their interests?
Their habits? How do they make decisions?
How do they spend their time?What motivates them?
Where do they get their information?What needs do they have?
How do we get them to “choose” our event?
Who else might be involved with the event?
What supplies do we need for the event? How will we acquire them without a budget?
How will we evaluate the effectiveness of our event?
Project Proposal Presentation Assignment
The Project Proposal is a 5-10 minute presentation in which you present your group and your project to the class. It should follow the format below:
Capture our attention (you can be as creative as you want)
Introduce your team members
Introduce your team name (the team name should come out of your collective identity.
Please don’t just pull a name from… ummm..you know where. You should have some kind of
identity by now. Your name can be anything – you can relate it to personality characteristics
of your team, to your organization, or to the university.
Anything that you feel represents your team.) You should have an accompanying visual aid that
displays your team name.
Please don’t just say, “And our team name is…” – explain to us why you chose that name or how
you came upon it. Stories are good here.
Introduce your team slogan (ideally this, in some way, relates to your organization and your team
andproject)
Please don’t just say, “And our team slogan is…” – explain to us why you chose that slogan or
how you came upon it. Does it mean something to you? Stories are good here, too.
Introduce your team logo. (Obviously you need a visual representation here).
Please don’t just say, “And this is our team logo…” – explain to us what it means to you or why
you chose it.
If you have a team mascot (some people do – not a requirement, but it has happened in the past)
you can introduce it here. (e.g. one group had a French fry (w/a good accompanying story),
one group had a weird stuffed animal they got from a claw machine at a restaurant where they
met once, etc.)
---Have you figured out yet that this is the place where we get to know your group? ---
Then transition very smoothly and clearly and…
Introduce your organization(Accompanying visuals are appropriate here)
Who is your organization?
What is their structure? (They may have international, regional, and local components –
identify all of them, but, of course, most clearly explain the local component)
Who do they support? In what ways? How does this help that population?
What ideas are central to their mission and values?
Then transition very smoothly and clearly and…
Propose your project.
What is your overall project goal?
What is it that you want to do, specifically, to meet that goal?
Does your project remain consistent with the mission/values of your org?
Who is your target audience?
Who else, besides your team, will be involved?
Why is your event a good idea? (Why will this work? Justify. Justify. Justify!!)
How will you advertise your event? Present all flyers/signs/tweets/FB Page etc.
How will your event proceed?
What do you want your event outcome to be?
What limitations do you foresee?
Then summarize your presentation and open the floor to questions.
(Genuinely desire feedback from your audience at this point – but be ready to either defend your project and be very open to suggestions and the possibility of making changes in your plans!)
Note: as audience members – think critically about your peers’ proposals: how realistic are they? Voice your concerns. Your job during these presentations is not to be a blindly optimistic cheerleader, but to help the other teams think critically about their projects before they put hours of work into them. Don’t harass your peers, but ask critical questions and help them make their projects amazing by making them think through every detail.
**Everyone in your group should have a speaking part – even if it’s only brief.
**Though it’s early on, these should be fairly polished. If you dress nicely, you appear more credible. Dressing nicely, however, is not a requirement. Ballcaps, sweats, etc., look unprofessional and should be avoided.
**Obviously you’ll have a power point presentation, right?
Wow me, folks. Make me excited about your upcoming event!