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Colby Gergen

Invigorate & refresh local organizations & promote them to the nation.Colby Gergen

COMPETED FOR

$50K
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Competed in
February, 2010

Goals

  • Invigorate localized non-profit organizations with new strategies
  • Promote those organizations outside of their local community
  • enlarge donor/volunteer base for those organizations with new tools
  • Use SocMedia to promote & get others to be involved in their community

Overview

The "Invigorate The Community" project uses social media and new technology to invigorate local non-profit organizations without a national organization supporting them. 

A group of 4 students will spend their summer driving across the USA, promoting their stops through social media and increasing the volunteers/donations for each stop. While at the stops, the students will be volunteering and teaching the organization how new technology can benefit them and their message, and by making it easier to get donations and volunteers.

Students will also shoot video for each organization and will edit for the organization to use as a promotional tool (something local NPOs struggle with).

Deliverables

Increase in volunteers and donations for each organizationOrganizations will be equipped with proper tools and education on how to use those tools to promote themselves within, and outside of, their communityEach organization gets a promo video from usPress coverage for organizations  

How will the 50K be Used?

Budget Notes: 'Emergency Money' was placed there in case we run across any extreme situations where an organization needs money for something asap, of if the car has car problems, etc. My hope is for Apple and Flip to give us discounts, which would allow us to increase the number of organizations we can go to.
$ 4,200 35 Flip Video Recorders for Organizations
$ 4,000 Gas & Food for students (any extra is donated)
$ 35,000 35 Macbooks for Organizations
$ 100 10 Domain names for Organizations w/o one
$ 4,800 4 Flips & 4 Macbooks for students - to be donated at end
$ 1,900 emergency money
Do Good for the Gulf.

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