I’m thrilled to offer this opportunity to New England-area nonprofits: a custom event plan by Framingham State students taking my Event Planning & New Media course.
Deadline to express interest: November 14, 2012.
Please have the point-of-contact at the nonprofit email sue(at)DesignatedEditor.com and be sure to include a link to the nonprofit’s website.
Students will conduct a phone interview to better understand nonprofits’ goals and target audiences. The projects will develop a new event concept and provide a plan to support it. It’s a great opportunity to tap into a 20-something mindset.
Please note
Students select which nonprofits to work with; they are not assigned in the hope you’ll see some passion in their work.
This is not an internship: Students will be delivering a well-designed plan and will not be there for events (although beyond-class arrangements can be made with students).
Highlights from the actual event-plan assignment
1. Interview a development/marketing professional at your nonprofit so you can better understand and thoroughly describe in your event proposal:
- Target audience
- Goals
- What types of events do the nonprofits think would NOT be successful
2. Create a NEW concept (as opposed to them giving you ideas). Thoroughly describe your event:
- Detailed assessments of target audiences that would attend your event. Be sure to discuss personas.
- Describe the event and outline as many facets as appropriate: venues, timelines, features, food, entertainment, etc.
- How you recommend promoting your event to various target audiences (hint each may require different tactics)
I look forward to providing my students an opportunity to create portfolio-level work that will benefit resource-starved and worthy nonprofit organizations in New England.
Thanks so much for passing this information along to nonprofits in your network who may be interested,
Suzanne aka Prof. McDonald