Suggestion: Outreach team will need at least one member who has been on the team before, a new Team Leader, and as many people who would like to join (if more than 5 people join subteams should be created).
Introduction
Fundraising
Overview: In the Spring 2008 the Outreach team worked to make contacts to develop relationships for future funding and potential partners. The Fall 2008 Team took the opposite approach and devoted much effort toward applying for grants and creating the materials that would make it easier. The next Outreach Team needs to go back and reach out to the contacts made last spring through presentations, newsletters, and any other applicable means you feel would be effective. In the future we hope that communities will be able to outright buy an AguaClara plant based on their affordability. Until that day comes we rely on grants and donations to see us through. It has also been proposed that microfinance partnerships could benefit us, although it seems that it would be a direction that needs to be well research and thoroughly planned before implementation could occur. (See Business Team below)
Specific challenges:
Awareness
Overview: Awareness ties in with both our fundraising and recruitment efforts. Our current awareness initiatives include the conferences we attend, the fliers, brochures, and posters we create, and the presentations we give. Awareness challenges include those that we already do, but a few new ones have been suggested.
Specific Challenges:
Recruitment
Overview: Recruitment initiatives continue to be based on Presentations to freshmen's Intro 1050 Classes. Other initiatives have included attempting to get CEE 255 crosslisted, so more non-engineering majors might enroll, but hasn't proceeded very far.
Specific Challenges:
If there is interest in creating a separate business team, it could be 2-3 members. Tasks (suggested by last spring team) could include: