Onboarding
U+Education would like to improve its onboarding processes by streamlining it. We want the onboarding process to reflect U+ as a company, promoting company culture and increasing employee retention. The onboarding experience should be intuitive, helpful, functional and virtual. Timeline: Report should be completed by Jan 2023 (before a new season of onboarding)
Revamp recruitment processes and talent retention
As our organization continues to grow, it is important for us to stay up to date with our processes for employee and volunteer recruitment and management. We have a desire to focus specifically on our approaches for attracting & recruiting candidates for specific role/roles. The goal is to create a series of channels to recruit talents and standardize the recruitment processes in a highly efficient manner. We want to use this opportunity to create an updated and improved method of our recruitment channels, processes, performance assessments. Through this collaboration, we would like to deliver three key areas:Identify and set up a variety of channels for talent recruitment including templates for job postsCreate a list of suggestions for recruitment methods and channels by job typeOptimize HR SOP and optimize candidate shortlisting techniques
Non-Profit Program Management
We are looking for assistance in finding and completing program management and set up for NPO in education.We believe this project will include:Assist with defining a company-identified community problem and defining the scope of a corresponding project.Develop a needs statement that characterizes the community problem and justifies the need for our project and funding.Identify potential sponsors and funding opportunities that are a good fit for our organization and project.Connect with communities and youth to promote NPO's mission. Improve the clarity and persuasiveness of our company's grant proposal writing.
Human Resources Management at U+ Education
As our organization continues to grow, it is important for us to stay up to date with our processes for staff recruitment and management. We have a desire to focus specifically on our approaches for attracting & recruiting candidates for specific role/roles. The goal is to deliver several HR Management objectives in recruitment, employer handbooks, onboarding site, and policies.. We want to use this opportunity to create an updated and improved HR Management Handbook covering the entire HR life cycle from recruitment, compensation, performance assessment, to exit. Through this collaboration, we would like to deliver three key areas:Research HRM best practicesAid in recruitment and selection activities including job analysis, posting positions, updating applicant tracking systems, screening applicants, scheduling and interviewsUpdate HR Management handbook and policies
NPO Start-up
We are looking for assistance in creating business plans and ideas for our brand new Educational NPO York Region Educational Services. (www.yorkeducation.org) The Not-for-profit's mission is to provide individuals in the vicinity of the York Region with free educational resources in a safe and supporting environment that inspires, motivates and helps set the foundation for personal growth.We believe this project will outline the opportunities includingBusiness CaseSituation Analysis, Market Analysis, Supplier AnalysisSWOT analysis Business ObjectivesMarketing PlanOperations PlanHR Plan and Financial PlanLegal Requirements
Digital Marketing Campaign
We are looking for assistance in our NPO's marketing campaign in order to boost our brand new Educational NPO York Region Educational Services. (www.yorkeducation.org) in addition to U+ Education. The Not-for-profit's mission is to provide individuals in the vicinity of York Region with free educational resources in a safe and supporting environment that inspires, motivates and helps set the foundation for personal growth.We believe this project will include:Assist with defining a company-identified community problem and defining the scope of a corresponding project.Develop a digital marketing plan tailored for specific customer demographics and increase brand awarenessPromote and launch sponsorship and donation packages and drive customer engagementConnect with communities and youth to promote NPO's mission and identify new market segments based on data and evidence
Data Analysis Research
As our organization continues to grow, it is important for us to stay up to date with our data analysis and visualization processes for program registrations. We have a desire to focus specifically on our approaches for understanding both internal and external datasets. In this project, the goal is to use data analysis methods to help our organization derive insights and make more informed decisions.We would like to collaborate with students to analyze our raw datasets. This will involve several different steps for the students, including:Familiarizing themselves with our project’s objectives and analysis procedures.Checking for and correcting inconsistencies in the dataset.Calculating important results and plotting data in graphs and charts.Performing relevant statistical tests to determine the significance of results.Leveraging existing tools such as Monday.comBonus steps in the process would also include:Recommending future areas of programs.
Data Analysis Research - Community
As our organization continues to grow, it is important for us to stay up to date with our data analysis and visualization processes for program registrations. We have a desire to focus specifically on our approaches for understanding both internal and external datasets. In this project, the goal is to use data analysis methods to help our organization derive insights and make more informed decisions.We would like to collaborate with students to analyze our raw datasets. This will involve several different steps for the students, including:Familiarizing themselves with our project’s objectives and analysis procedures.Checking for and correcting inconsistencies in the dataset.Calculating important results and plotting data in graphs and charts.Performing relevant statistical tests to determine the significance of results.Leveraging existing tools such as Monday.comBonus steps in the process would also include:Recommending future areas of programs.
Business Expansion and New Regions
We are looking for assistance in finding and completing business expansion business planning as our NPO is looking to expand in the West of Canada such as Vancouver and bring affordable educational services to communities across Canada. We believe this project will include:Assist with defining a company-identified community gap and defining the scope of a corresponding project.Develop a business strategy/planning that characterizes the community needs and justifies the need for our project and organizational expansion.Assist in Identifying potential business collaborators to support the expansion.Connect with communities and youth to promote NPO's mission.
New Service (Resume editing) Project Management
We are looking for assistance in preparing for a new service launch in 2024 under a not-for-profit NPO organization called U+ CareerWe believe this project will include:Develop a complete project plan including a schedule, risk assessment and budget, and other required documents.Assist in finalizing the project strategies and timelines. Connect with communities and youth to promote NPO's mission.
Training and Development
Having an efficient and effective training and development process is crucial to the success of an organization. U+ is looking to provide a revolutionary summer camp counselor training program where employees can stay up to date on company values, ethics, SOPs and gain insight about their role. We would like to observe and examine how recommended areas for further training and development, within a short period, can benefit the company.
Talent Recruitment and Retention for Summer Camp
As our organization continues to grow, it is important for us to stay up to date with our processes for employee and volunteer recruitment and management. We have a desire to focus specifically on our approaches for attracting & recruiting candidates for specific role/roles. In this project, the goal to create a series of channels to recruit Summer Camp talents to support our growing Camp Program portfolio. Through this collaboration, we would like to deliver three key areas:Identify and set up a variety of channels for talent recruitment for Summer CampCreate a list of suggestions for recruitment methods and channels for Summer CampOptimize HR SOP and optimize candidate shortlisting techniques, reference check questionnaire review, and employee satisfaction, and performance evaluation
Digital Marketing Strategic Planning for NPO
We are looking for assistance in our NPO's Digital Marketing Strategic Planning in order to boost awareness. The NPO is called York Region Educational Services. The Not-for-profit's mission is to provide individuals in the vicinity of the York Region with free educational resources in a safe and supporting environment that inspires, motivates and helps set the foundation for personal growth.We believe this project will include:Assist with defining a company-identified community problem and defining the scope of a corresponding project.Develop digital marketing strategies tailored for specific customer demographics and increase brand awarenessConnect with communities and leaders to promote NPO's mission and identify new market segments such as marketing for donors
NPO Survey Design
We are looking for assistance in creating online surveys from large groups of volunteers. This project is for Educational NPO York Region Educational Services. (www.yorkeducation.org) The Not-for-profit's mission is to provide individuals in the vicinity of the York Region with free educational resources in a safe and supportive environment that inspires, motivates and helps set the foundation for personal growth.We believe this project will help us understand how committed volunteers are in the organization and how our organization can deliver a better volunteering program to high-school students across GTA.
Book translation
We are looking for assistance in translating books from English into other languages to allow more people to read themWe believe this project will include:Translate the NPO's books (published by U+) from English to other languages such as SpanishIdentify potential sponsors and funding opportunities that are a good fit for our book project.Connect with communities and youth to promote translated books.
New Demographic Marketing and Business Planning
Our company would like to expand to new markets such as Calgary and Vancouver and we would like to understand the local market and make strategies for business planning.Together with our marketing team, we would like students to research customer demographics and targets in the local areas, and design new business strategies for this demographic. Based on our insights and additional research, students will develop promotional marketing plans and make recommendations on the next steps to consider.Tasks include: Familiarizing themselves with our target market, products and services.Researching the new customer demographic that we would like to reach.Assessing our existing marketing strategy and efforts.Recommending marketing tactics to attract new customers.3-month and 12-month business planning.Recommending other demographics to consider in the future.
Data Analysis Research - Volunteer Management
As our organization continues to grow, it is important for us to stay up to date with our data analysis and visualization processes for program registrations. We have a desire to focus specifically on our approaches for understanding both internal and external datasets. In this project, the goal is to use data analysis methods to help our organization derive insights and make more informed decisions.We would like to collaborate with students to analyze our raw datasets. This will involve several different steps for the students, including:Familiarizing themselves with our project’s objectives and analysis procedures.Checking for and correcting inconsistencies in the dataset.Calculating important results and plotting data in graphs and charts.Performing relevant statistical tests to determine the significance of results.Leveraging existing tools such as Monday.comBonus steps in the process would also include:Recommending future areas of programs.
Digital Marketing
We want students to help us improve website traffic and leads from the digital advertising campaigns based on Google Analytics data by making recommendations to SEOs, contents and designs. The main questions we’d like students to help us answer are the following:How should we promote our website for a broader audience from diverse background?What to highlight and not highlight on the website?What messaging should we use?
Non-Profit Program Management
We are looking for assistance in finding and completing HR management for our new NPO organization called U+ ToastmastersWe believe this project will include:Assist with defining a HR Management in the new NPO systemDevelop a HR function for managing volunteer performance, tracking hours and so onIdentify potential sponsors and funding opportunities that are a good fit for our organization and projectConnect with communities and youth to promote NPO's mission. Improve the clarity and persuasiveness of our company's grant proposal writing.