NO PLACE LIKE HOME

Below are the responses for your records.

GENERAL RESPONSE INFORMATION

Completed Survey: Yes

SURVEY RESPONSES
 

1. What is your group number?
 

Group 16

2. What is your team name?
 

The Suburbs

3. What is your Thursday 5pm meeting location?
 

Front of the classroom

4. Who is your team Liaison?
 

Alex Zirlin

5. Who is your team Recorder?
 

Emma Biddle

6. Who is your team Historian?
 

Alex Beres

7. Who is your team Webmaster?
 

Emily Roux

8. Who is your team Treasurer 1?
 

Katie Liebe

9. Who is your team Treasurer 2?

Brendan Reed

10. What role will your 7th team member fulfill?

Spencer Moore-2nd Webmaster

11. What role will your 8th team member fulfill?

N/A

12. What is the URL for your team's portfolio site?

http://ecroux.wix.com/noplacelikehome

13. What are your team's rules?

-Show up to meetings unless otherwise noted
-Be on time
-Be friendly towards group members
-Use GroupMe for communication
-Be respectful to others opinions
-Contribute/pull your own weight
-Communicate your needs 
-Follow through

14. What is your PRIMARY SMART GOAL?  What are the instrumental objectives to this goal?  What are your criteria for evaluating success on this goal?

-Our monetary goal is $100 per person, so $700 as a group
-$10 an hour per person

15. What is your FIRST SMART GOAL?  What are the instrumental objectives to this goal?  What are your criteria for evaluating success on this goal?

-Have half of our fundraising money come from service hours at Home Sweet Home 
-Each team member has had at least 5 hours of service to Home Sweet Home by the time final project is due

16. What is your SECOND SMART GOAL?  What are the instrumental objectives to this goal?  What are your criteria for evaluating success on this goal?

-Raise needed revenue such as canned food, clothing, toiletries/feminine supplies, etc. 
-Items need to come from the list they gave us (at least half of the list)

17. Briefly discuss the social issue you'd like to address through your work with Wishbone, Home Sweet Home or The Boys and Girls Club.  What do they already do in regard to that issue?  What do they need?  How can your team help?

-Helping the homeless/underprivileged and raise awareness of donating towards the organization 
-Home Sweet Home provides shelter, food, an hope to the homeless and hurting 
-They need everyday items such as toiletries, lots of new/gently used clothing, and perishable food 
-We will help by raising service hours and donating supplies they are in need of

18. How do you plan to reach your goals?  Describe what fundraisers your team plans to try out.  Please note what, if any, work you've already done to enact your plan.

-Use social media to raise awareness of what we are doing for the organization
-Utilize the campus radio station and TV-10 
-Ask the City of Normal to advertise our goal on social media 
-Promote a canned goods drive through different forms of media to achieve our fundraising goal

19. Would your team like to be considered for any volunteering options if/when they become available? 

-Yes, we would like to visit the facility and help set up for their 5K Run in March

20. What is your proposed timeline for achieving your goals?  Be as specific as possible when indicating prep work and fundraising achievement dates.

-By end of April have all service hours completed or at the least half 
-Over course of time of project continuously collect items they need

21. What potential problems do you anticipate in executing these tasks?  What are you doing to prepare to overcome these problems?

-Scheduling difficulties, transporting goods to the facility, unexpected meeting emergency conflicts 
-Send each other schedules (done), stay communicated, stick with our established rules

22. What fallback plans do you think you could execute, and what is your “point of no return” situation and date when you think you’d make the decision to implement the fallback plan?  (Ex:  “If we don’t have $X in by March 1 we’ll implement fallback plan Y”).

-If we don't have half of our product goal total by end of March we'll start looking at home to utilize different networks to get products

23. Please list any team members who did NOT participate in creating your projectproposal, or contributed very little.  A quick explanation of what they did/didn't do would be helpful.  This isn't to get anyone in trouble but to verify that everyone in the group has had a chance to comment on the plan you're turning in (and if they didn't, why not).

N/A