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=Individual Service Project Proposal Outline=

Description
As one of the main focuses of our course is community service, you will need to develop and implement your own plan for completing some form of community service throughout the semester. Your service can be a project that you would like to start, or service that you already do on a regular basis.

Early on in the course, you will develop a Project Proposal as outlined below. Your teachers will review the proposal and offer support and feedback, after which you will have a few days to negotiate and make changes for a final submission and approval.

Your grade for the Individual Community Service Project will be based on this proposal, your actual completion of the project, and a short write-up of your experience which shall be submitted at the end of the semester.

=**Individual Project Proposal Outline**=

1. Executive Summary / Elevator Speech

 * Give an overview explaining everything you've written below at a very broad level. This part of the proposal should be no more than three sentences, you should be able to read it it out comfortably in less than 30 seconds.

2. Project Overview

 * The "who, what, when, where, why" of the project. So, among other things:
 * What you're doing.
 * Who with.
 * When and where you're going to do it.
 * Why you are drawn to this particular project. Go into some detail on this question. Why this project out of all the things you could be doing? Why is this a good use of your time and talents? What do you hope to gain from it?

3. Project Plan

 * This is the "how." To include:
 * ====Timeline: What is your project timeline, including major milestones?====
 * For example: I'm going to plant a garden over the course of three months. After the first month I'll have cleared the land, at the end of the second month I'll have prepared the dirt, at the end of the third month I'll have planted pizza trees.
 * ====Steps: What steps need to be taken to accomplish this goal?====
 * Within the above example: I need to start by finding the land and getting supplies. Then I'll pull weeds and rake. Then I'll dig holes and plant.
 * ====Resources: What resources will you need to be successful?====
 * Land. A car to get there. A rake, gloves, seeds, a hat, sunscreen, lemonade. 1 day of help from friends and family (3 people helping for 6 hours each = 18 manhours).
 * ====Risks and Mitigation Options: What are some things that could go wrong, and how do you plan to overcome them====
 * Risk 1: It rains on the day I'm planning to go
 * Mitigation: Plan to go to the land early in the semester, that way if it rains I can reschedule it for later
 * Risk 2: It takes a lot longer to clear the land than I'd anticipated
 * Mitigation: Warn the class in advance that I may need them to come help one day. Also make sure I work in a way that would allow me to plant a smaller garden if need be.

4. Evaluation Criteria

 * How are you personally going to measure whether or not this project is a success? How should your teachers judge it? Try to come up with both qualitative and quantitative measurements.
 * Example. If you had been reading at a nursing home, you might say that from a quantitative perspective you would like to have read for X total hours by the end of the semester. From a qualitative perspective, you might say that you want to leave feeling like you had formed great relationships with people at the home.