Outreach Team Goals for the Spring 2009 Semester

Subteam Leader: Scott Freyburger

Outreach team members

• Brandon Schumacher
• Chi-Chi Lin
• Min Bu
• Scott Freyburger
• Narayana Pappu
• Trang Pham
• Joe Redondo
• Jacob Van Almelo
• Eunsol Choi

Public Relations Working Group

PR Working Group Director: Brandon Schumacher

PR Working Group Organizers

Chi-Chi Lin Wiki Master:

• Updating wiki design and content
• Connecting with Leopoldo in Honduras and cordinating the translation of the
• Redesigning the poster using new pictures that catch the obervers attenchon vissualy and conseptually
• Printing more pamphlets and distributing them to all admissions offices
• Consider redesigning the pamphlets,
• Redesigning the fliers, making them more vissually catching

Brandon Schumacher: awareness and funding contacts, speakers

Min Bu Event Organizer:

• 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

Fund Raising Working Group

Fund Raising Working Group Director: Joe Redondo

Fund Raising Working Group Organizers

Narayana Pappu Budjet Manager:

• Generally organize the budget into a clean and well organized format, one that could be quickly modified for presentation in specific grant proposals
• Aguaclara form organization
  • Constitution
  • Writing up a discriptive plan of exactly what this will consist of
  • Lead class on Feburary 23: forum proposal to class, recive input from other AguaClara teams, construct the bye laws for the constitution
• Investigation of microcredit sources, ask Scott he has lots of leads

Trang Pham AguaClara Before and After Organizer:

• Logging significant AguaClara events (four communities plant inoguration...) throughout the semester and creating a elumi newsletter to send out at the end of the semester
  • Looking into whether the alumni news letter should be print or electronic
  • If print is choosen, cordnation with Chi-Chi on a design
  • Locate the alumni email list that is located on the AguaClara Gmail account
• Organizing a future AguaClara student team member list serve
  • This would consist of sending a welcome email with the option of leaving the list serve
  • The list of students names (ask Scott for the list) and email addresses should be organized neatly in the AguaClara Gmail account: Sign in name: CUAguaClara Password: 4cleanh2o
• Determine the date for course registration and send an update/reminder email about the progress of AguaClara to perspective students

Jacob (all around good time) Van Almelo Outreach Reterning Membor Resource:

• Using his boundless energy to motivate and encourge the rest of the team
• Organization of cross listing AguaClara at Cornell
• Answer questions that new team members may have about past Outreach events
• Organizing locations around campus, including outside of engineering school for posters to be placed, specifically the admissions office
  • Includes getting permission from different departments to have posters placed in there buildings
  • Having posters printed to appropriate size, use Chi-Chi as a resource, she knows posters
• assist Narayana in AguaClara forumn design
  • Specifically organizing the class discussion on Feburary 23 on the constitution
• Encharge of placing AguaClara redesigned fliers around campus and around town
  • Place fliers and both Green Star locations, Wegmans, Public buildings, and maybe on Tcat buses or Tcat bus stop locations
• Organize a presentation with Min for the Ithaca Echo Village
  • Title it sustainable water treatment and they will love it, maybe they would help organize a fund raiser
• Look into different fund raising opertunities outside of Cornell, locally in Ithaca (Churches...excetera)
• Pilot pant:
  • Clear detailed operation instructions
  • Calibrate the flow rates, lable on plant what hole or height corisponds to what flow rate
  • Determine appropriate amount of dosing based upon incoming flow and clay concentration, to form readily settling floccs
• Clean the demo plant so it is ready for AguaClara presentations

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

Joe Redondo Grant Design:

• 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

Scott Freyburger: team organization, team outreach connection with other subteams, organization of team outreach future, possible locations for Aguaclara technology spread to other parts of world, national PR

Deliverables

• New pamphlet, poster, shirt and flyers
• Many fabulous presentations
• List of people that could speak in future Aguaclara classes
• Updated wiki design
• A whole pile of new team members for the summer, fall, and spring of next year
• Large group of people and organizations that are in contact with Aguaclara
• Much needed funding for new plants and people working in Honduras
• Aguaclara cross listed class
• alumni news letter
• national and international recognition
• outreach team outline: official not for profit (NFP) organization design, grant righting procedure
• Procedure for water plant community education and connection
• Aguaclara group (club) not registered for class credit