Communications and Storytelling for Impact

We are looking to work with students to identify new opportunities to achieve our business goals. We are open to feedback about areas of focus, as we would like our assigned person or team to preform a comprehensive analysis of our business. We have shared a few high priority goals and desired benefits below to help guide you:- Currently a lack of knowledge of awareness of our organization and the incredible work we do. - We have been in operation for 50 years and have serviced tens if not hundreds of thousands of people. We have a large network of alumni clients and families that could be amazing ambassadors in the community if we know how to best engage and leverage those voices to help us tell our story.- Lack of coordinated approach to marketing and communications - currently using social media, website and program newsletter but there is no strategy around timing or content.The benefit of this project for us would be to be able to more effectively tell our story, communicate our impact and engage the community in a way that increases our profile, strengthens our credibility and helps generate more financial support through our foundation.

Virtual Internship Opportunity: Configuration of Office 365

Our organization is able to offer a virtual internship opportunity for 1 students or teams.The primary focus for the student will be: Configuration of Office 365 to support Sharepoint online and moving to a fully cloud based storage solution. The student will be supported by a team and work with the IT Director and System administratorsOur goal at the end of this experience is: Sustainable cloud storage solution is implemented or ready to be implementedOther duties the student may complete could include: Support research into other back up data storage solutions and data fragmentationWe will plan to communicate with our virtual intern using these communication tools: Email, MS Teams and ZoomStudent's primary contact: Allyson Clark, Leader - Innovation, Transformation and QualitySecondary contact: Wade Fund, Director of IT and Building

Virtual Internship: Program Evaluation and Performance Management Plan

Our organization is able to offer a virtual internship opportunity for 1 to 2 students or teams.The primary focus for the student will be: Developing a logic model to support program evaluation Our goal at the end of this experience is: To support the updating of our internal performance management and program evaluation approachOther duties the student may complete could include: Review of data collection methods and data analysis methodsWe will plan to communicate with our virtual intern using these communication tools: Email, MS Teams and Zoom Student's primary contact: Allyson Clark, Leader - Innovation, Transformation and Quality

Analyzing Industry Data and Regulatory Requirements

Our organization is ready to make some business changes but we know that we need to assess the correct data to help inform our decisions. We believe we know some information about our consumers and our target consumer base but we lack information on the overall landscape of our industry as well as changing privacy regulations due to covid-19 and the advancements made in technology over the years (virtual care, client portals, etc.)Through a deep dive of our industry/market, we hope to identify key market trends to assist in our go-forward plans. We want to look at growth trends, stagnation patterns or decline analytics, for example. It is important for us to know where the most promising innovation exists or which areas are slowing down. It's also important for us to better understand the regulatory requirements related to our advancements in building secure client portals, providing virtual care as well as other digital solutions to meet our clients needs (ex. e-sgnature).We believe that there is enough industry data available to complete a study of our sector. It would be extremely helpful for a student group to look at our industry, identify key trends of growth, stagnation and decline. We are open to all information that seems appropriate and valuable. Using these findings, we would like a detailed and researched report on the market trends that will mean the most to the future of our business.