Advocacy Strategy Development for Ubuntu - Mobilizing Central Alberta

Ubuntu - Mobilizing Central Alberta is a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering communities and fostering social change in the Red Deer area. The organization seeks to enhance its advocacy efforts to better engage with local stakeholders, influence policy, and raise awareness about its mission. The goal of this project is to develop a comprehensive advocacy plan that aligns with Ubuntu's objectives and leverages its existing resources. The project will involve researching effective advocacy strategies, identifying key stakeholders, and crafting a tailored plan that can be implemented by the organization. By applying classroom knowledge of communication, public relations, and strategic planning, learners will gain practical experience in developing a real-world advocacy strategy. - Analyze Ubuntu's current advocacy efforts and identify areas for improvement. - Research successful advocacy strategies used by similar non-profits. - Identify and prioritize key stakeholders and target audiences in Red Deer. - Develop a strategic advocacy plan that includes clear objectives, tactics, and timelines.

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Project

The philosophy of Ubuntu guides us – “We are all connected. What affects one affects us all.” Mobilizing Central Alberta in creating justice and equality for all. To promote full and equitable participation of individuals and communities of all origins. We’d like the students to help us identify where we can have an impact. Project: Ubuntu runs workshops with communities and organizations in Central Alberta that are looking at improving their commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion. As a small organization, they provide initial guidance to support the group in developing an action plan. They would like support in developing follow up resources to help the groups develop their internal capacity to continue their efforts and work on achieving their action plans. A sample project for this partner may be a resource kit for a library to develop programming for different age and community groups to facilitate engagement with equity, diversity, and inclusion. It may include suggested reading lists, guiding questions, templates for buttons for participants, poster templates, etc.

Social Inequality Project

Create resource document to provide information quickly and effectively on prejudice and racism in rural areas in Alberta. Students will find, gather, and report on information from a variety of sources (academic sources and grey literature) and develop a workshop (and related materials) to inform relevant stakeholders about key research findings and considerations on this topic. The document will be used as a resource to assist addressing racism and prejudice by creating awareness and, ultimately, policy change. Although not limited to the following, students will: a)            Design workshop materials that focus on creating an awareness of and ways to address the social issue of prejudice and racism (consider target audience to be individuals in rural Alberta communities and in Alberta more generally) b)            Workshop materials will include key background and contextual information about the social issue. c)            Workshop materials will provide information on ways to promote (e.g., promising/best practices) equity and inclusion for BIPOC communities in order to address the social issue (e.g., policies, resources, initiatives, programs, strategies, educational materials). We have a vibrant BIPOC youth council and are asking that the youth co-chairs of this council contribute to developing the workshop.

Financial Business Plan & Accounting

We are looking to launch a new business and would like to involve students in this exciting time as we works to develop a financial business plan. We can provide access to internal documentation other information as needed as well as access to key contacts. Based on our unique goals and constraints, we would like students to develop a strong, competitive financial business plan, which we can present to investors. The plan should include: Expense budget Income projections (conservative and aggressive) Assets and liabilities Break-even analysis Creating Quarterly Reports Complete vendor payments and controls expenses by receiving, processing, verifying, and reconciling invoices Maintains accounting ledgers by verifying and posting account transactions Maintains accurate digital records of all transactions and documents Supports Finance functions including but not limited to month-ends, budgets, and projects as needed