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:

• As many as possible. 10-15 would be reasonable.

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• Edit the Wiki to weed out outdated information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 possible 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.