Progress Presentation

BY: Amani Alkayyali

Dalal AbedJacob Doan

Yousef Karyouti

Objectives

Our project is about community service in Detroit.

• Increase volunteerism and awareness in Detroit.

Audiences For The Project

• Primary– Elizabeth Gordon Sachs, the founder and

president of Greening of Detroit.

• Secondary– Maria C. Esperanza, the director of public relations

for Greening of Detroit.

Members and Roles

• Team leader: Yousef

• Note keeper: Dalal

• Schedule keepers : Amani & Jacob

TOPIC

Team Members Qualifications

Community Service in Detroit

• Amani -Community Service Coordinator at TAU BETA Pi-Volunteered for Blight Busters to Clean Detroit

• Dalal -Community Service in High School

• Jacob -Community Service in High school

• Yousef: -Volunteered for Services ( Setting up ADT Security Alarm System)-Community Service in High School

Forecast

• Topic Introduction by AMANI

• Past Work by Dalal

• Team Work by YOUSEF

• Conclusion by Jacob

Possible Solutions

• Creating social networking accounts• Creating online volunteer registration forms• Creating incentives for volunteers– Food, Shirts, extra

• Creating a safer volunteering environment– Set up something with local police to send a squad

car to watch over the event.

Central Problem

• Community Service in Detroit– To Clean Up Detroit

• Lack of Volunteers for Various Reasons– Increase Volunteers to Decrease Blight

• Greening of Detroit– Clean Vacant Lots– Plant Trees

Completed Research

• Primary Sourceso Survey – 16 completedo Interviewso John George – Blight Busters President

o “People are busy with other things”o Greening of Detroit Volunteer Coordinator

o “The 3 most important things to an organization are: Money, Volunteers, and Time”

Completed Research

• Secondary Sourceso British Journal of Social Work – “Who

Volunteers?”o Studies show more volunteer opportunities

motivate people to volunteer moreo Law Technology – “Utilizing Social Networking

as a Business Marketing Tool for NGOs” o Benefits to using social network sites

Research to Complete

• Primary Sources• Analysis of Surveys• Hope to find results similar to those from the

articles and direct quotes• Secondary Sources• Another Article• Cost of incentives

Issues Immerged• One secondary Audience to be changed to Primary Audience.

Tasks Remaining

1. Research • More research to be done on the solutions

part• Finish Research about incentives to attract

volunteers to come to events• Research about ways to make the

volunteering experience safer

Tasks Remaining

2. Survey• Survey is to be finished by at least 30 people• Survey results should be analyzed• Use the survey results to help improve the

solutions of the project

Tasks Remaining

3. Interviews • Two interviews• Analyze the interviews • Use the interviews to construct some

solutions for the project and find supporting points for the formal proposal discussion.

Tasks Remaining

4. Formal proposal• Collect all the information to be added to the

final report• Edit the results of research• Divide the report into different sections• Start writing each section and adding the

gathered information to it.

Tasks Remaining

5. Assignment 5 a,b,c• Finish assignment 5 which is mostly working

on the final report and the presentation of the formal proposal.

• Also includes the Evite Brochure

Future Work Project timeline/completion date:

Tasks Students March April

1 7 14 21 28 4 11 18 24

Survey Amani

Research Dalal , Jacob , Yousef

Progress Report Yousef

Compile information

Amani , Jacob

Editing Dalal

Final Report All team members

Team Members Duties

Specific Part Student

• Introduction and Conclusion Jacob

• Discussion (Past Work) Dalal

• Discussion (Team Work) Amani

• Discussion (Future work) Yousef

Specific duties: •Assignment #4 :Progress Report

Team Duties: Entire Project Plan:

• Team Duties for this project is going to remain the same thing.

• As a team decision, we decided to divide the work load fairly for each assignment.

• I am the team leader for this assignment.• All team members is to be a team leader for

each project.

Team Collaboration

• We haven’t had any issues with team collaboration. We have all been getting along great.

• We always divide the assignments into four parts and assign work fairly as a team decision.

• All team members get together a week prior to the assignment due date for editing.

Summary of Main Points