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- Requested event and presentation organization
- Specifically organization of an event intails: finding AguaClara members to run the event, contacting the event requestor and asking if there are specifics that they would like us to cover, varifiing the date and adding to the upcomeing events page and the AguaClara calender, designing a power point presentation to use, organizing the demo plant (verify all parts are included, chemicals, clay), determining what hardware will be available at the site of the presentation i.e. computer with overhead projector, or will the Aguaclara presenter have to bring the projector and computer, or will the presentation be strictly verbal with the use of non-digital vissuals
- Presentations ideally will consist of two team members, one experienced AguaClara
vetran and one new team member that has never given the presentation before - Great AguaClara pulic speaking vetrans would include Nicole Cecci, Sara Schwetschenau, Sara Long, Ian (the snake) Tse, Jacobe Van Almelo, Matt Hurst, and Scott Freyburger just to name a few
- Search for departments, classes, and specifically professors that we could pitch the idea that an AguaClara presentation would benifit there work and ours
- When the above departments, classes, or professors are identified, organize the event
Brandon Schumacher Public Relations Working Group Manager:
- Organization of public relations events here on compus
- Create a list of people that would be educational speakers for AguaClara classes next semester
- Organization of Cornell Club presentations
- Determine where everyone in AguaClara is from (state, country...)
- Determine if there is a Cornell club in that area and then attempt to organize presentations at the clubs during school breaks
Fund Raising Working Group
Fund Raising Working Group Director: Joe Redondo
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Eunsol Choi Education Manager: *
- Organize a specific plan for eduation of communities that will be recieving AguaClara plants
- This will take some research, start by determining how this was done in the past (ask Monroe)
- Do a liturature search on implimentation (education) of social benifits (water, and sanitation) in developing countries, Scott will help you with this
- Design a process for educating the community about the benifits of the water treatment plant
- Look into the current guidelines for educating plant oporators, are the current guidelines still valid, are they specific enuff or do they need to me simplified, are all AguaClara designed technologies included (automatic chemical doser?)
- Write an emails to donors
- Be specific, describe where their money went and what it was used for
- Send pictures to them
- Create a list serve using the AguaClara Gmail account and keep them updated with AguaClara events
- AguaClara Gmail Account: User Name: CUAguaClara Password: 4cleanh2o
- First on the donor list is: First Congregational Church in Ithaca, find out how much money they donated, where it went, and then write them a thank you, send the thank you letter to Scott, Nicole Cecci, and Monroe for editing before it is sent out
Joe Redondo Grant Design and Funding Working Group LeaderManager:
- Create a general grant template that can be talored to specific fund requests
- Send Scott information about what resources you are using to write grants
- Keep the Fund Raising Working Group on task and focused
- Compile a data base comprising of possible funders that could be investigated
- Write grants and send them out
- If you don't get a responce after sending a grant, contact the organization
- Focus your time on large grants
- If you need help investigating possible funders deligate some of the inquries to other Outreach group members
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