Local Youth Sustainability Education Non-Profit Organizational Growth - Langara

Help a local non-profit deliver a 1 - 2 year strategy in PR and Program Development:PR Strategy: Develop a comprehensive PR strategy for the non-profit. This includes campaigns for a varied number of already established target audiences, varied and cohesive public relations campaign(s) that build a consistent brand awareness through existing PR channels, and is conscious of existing organizational capacity.Program Development: Analyze existing non-profit programs and identify opportunities for development or creation of new programs. Assist in designing varied and cohesive programs that align with target audiences' interest and needs that align well with an organization early in their journey.

Local Youth Sustainability Education Non-Profit Organizational Growth

Help a local non-profit deliver a 1 - 2 year strategy in PR and Program Development:PR Strategy: Develop a comprehensive PR strategy for the non-profit. This includes campaigns for a varied number of already established target audiences, varied and cohesive public relations campaign(s) that build a consistent brand awareness through existing PR channels, and is conscious of existing organizational capacity.Program Development: Analyze existing non-profit programs and identify opportunities for development or creation of new programs. Assist in designing varied and cohesive programs that align with target audiences' interest and needs that align well with an organization early in their journey.

Youth Engagement Communications Plan - Climate Change Conference

We want students to help us build a communication framework for a Canada wide youth-led climate change conference. Our target is to inaugurate the first conference of its kind in Canada this year and a large preparational component is to have a communications toolkit and framework ready. This project is focused on helping to build a communication strategy and toolkit that effectively reaches youth all across Canada for their perspectives about climate change. Key Responsibilities:Develop a communication toolkit strategy that is accessible and easy to use for other youths.Draft copyright communications as part of the strategyDevelop graphic assets to support the communicationProjects Goals:Assist our organization to create a toolkit for other youth to use in a Canada wide, youth-led, climate change conference and develop a communication strategy to get youth involved in the conference.

Climate Change Policy Advisor & Writer- U.N Climate Change Conference

We want an analytical and positive Policy Advisor (At least 3rd year undergrad or above) to help us write a professional policy document for a Canada-wide youth-led climate change conference following a United Nations framework. The policy document will be demands by Canadian youth to Canadian decision-makers on action they need to take on climate change and sustainability within Canada, as well as more broadly to the world leaders at COP. We wish to write a specific and detailed document that references existing Canadian policy/legislation. This project is focused on ensuring the policy document is effective, relevant, and practical to current policy in Canada and so it can make an impact in the COP conference.Key Responsibilities:Advise us on current policy in Canada surrounding climate change, sustainability, especially in climate justice, biodiversity, building sustainable communities, and extreme weatherConsult/help to write an effective policy document

Graphic Designer - UN Climate Change Conference

We want students to help us create beautiful and engaging graphic design assets for a few public relation campaigns and areas likes social media, our website, and print material. The graphic design will revolve around event-based purposes, e.g. event website, brochures, posters, etc. Our target is to to build a healthy base of graphic design content to be used throughout the conference. We are looking for students with a stylistic interest in nature themed design.Scope: The main objectives we would like students to help us with are,Following marketing strategy plans to create ~10 social media ads Create ~10 graphic design assets (digital banners, document templates, website assets)Help us in effective layout design in high-text based documents

French Translation and Engagement - Climate Change Conference

We are hosting a national youth climate change conference and to be truly national we need to be accessible to the Francophone community in Canada! Our conference follows a U.N framework called LCOY. The purpose of LCOY is to gather youth and youth organizations in a country to talk about climate change issues relevant to their country. The issues and perspectives that are shared during the conference are taken and turned into a policy document, demanding decision makers take action. This project will help us translate translate communication material (e.g. our social media, website, print material) and the policy document into French and help us invite French-Canadian youth to our conference (via email outreach).

Marketing Strategy Plan for Experiential Nature Summer Camps

About our camps: Our summer camps are 5-day day-camps, Monday-Friday, which run continuously through July and August. Our camps are broken into an online morning science lesson that follows with an experiential afternoon fieldtrip to a nature location in the City of Vancouver.About our marketing strategy project:We want students to help us build a marketing strategy plan for our experiential nature summer camps. Our target is to grow and engage our target market of Metro Vancouver parents with kids in Grade 1 - 7 and increase sales with them. We would like to know how we can maximize use of different channels and get recommendations to improve our messaging. This project is focused on helping to build a strategy from scratch for a young organization rather than content/ad creation or managing existing campaigns. We are looking for students to get us started on the right foot this year with marketing to make our summer camps a success.Scope: The main questions we would like students to help us answer are the following,How do parents currently perceive our brand and marketing?What channels should we utilize for promotion?How can we effectively generate sales as a young organization?How could we better explain our value proposition?Key Responsibilities:Develop a successful Feb-July marketing strategy that will match our market and reach our target audienceAssist in creating an optimized value propositionConduct light market research to create successful marketing strategies fromRequirements:Knowledgeable about marketingKnowledgeable about current marketing channels and creating tailored strategy for an organization/specific serviceProjects Goals:Assist our organization to learn marketing strategy and converting our campaigns to revenue in a way that is tailored to us. Our goals are flexible to the best knowledge student can share during their time with us.Students Learning Value:We are eager to provide an open environment for students to apply their classroom knowledge to a real organization. With less complexity and established structure than other organizations, this project provides students to largely have free reign on determining their marketing strategy and the opportunity to see direct results from their work.

Climate Change & Sustainability Youth Policy Demands Lobbying

In September 2023, a Local Conference of Youth (LCOY) was hosted in Canada. LCOYs are a conference framework from the UNFCCC global youth consistency YOUNGO that invites youth and youth-led entities in a country to come together to build capacity and make policy demands ahead of each year's United Nations Conference on Climate Change (the yearly Conference of Parties for the UNFCCC). Typically these demands are not intentionally distributed within the country the LCOY is hosted in. This project is focused on sharing the youth policy demands from LCOY Canada 2023 with relevant policy makers, decision makers, and groups. The policy demands are focused on the topics of the conference: Low-carbon energy, climate finance, sustainable cities, biodiversity, the ocean, the arctic, food and agriculture, climate justice, and youth-led politics.

Youth Engagement Communications Plan - Climate Change Conference

We want students to help us build a communication framework for a Canada wide youth-led climate change conference. Our target is to inaugurate the first conference of its kind in Canada this year and a large preparational component is to have a communications toolkit and framework ready. This project is focused on helping to build a communication strategy and toolkit that effectively reaches youth all across Canada for their perspectives about climate change. Key Responsibilities:Develop a communication toolkit strategy that is accessible and easy to use for other youths.Draft copyright communications as part of the strategyDevelop graphic assets to support the communicationProjects Goals:Assist our organization to create a toolkit for other youth to use in a Canada wide, youth-led, climate change conference and develop a communication strategy to get youth involved in the conference.

Climate Change Policy Advisor & Writer- U.N Climate Change Conference

We want an analytical and positive Policy Advisor (At least 3rd year undergrad or above) to help us write a professional policy document for a Canada-wide youth-led climate change conference following a United Nations framework. The policy document will be demands by Canadian youth to Canadian decision-makers on action they need to take on climate change and sustainability within Canada, as well as more broadly to the world leaders at COP. We wish to write a specific and detailed document that references existing Canadian policy/legislation. This project is focused on ensuring the policy document is effective, relevant, and practical to current policy in Canada and so it can make an impact in the COP conference.Key Responsibilities:Advise us on current policy in Canada surrounding climate change, sustainability, especially in climate justice, biodiversity, building sustainable communities, and extreme weatherConsult/help to write an effective policy document

Graphic Designer - Climate Change Conference

We want students to help us create beautiful and engaging graphic design assets for a few public relation campaigns and areas likes social media, our website, and print material. The graphic design will revolve around event-based purposes, e.g. event website, brochures, posters, etc. Our target is to to build a healthy base of graphic design content to be used throughout the conference. We are looking for students with a stylistic interest in nature themed design.Scope: The main objectives we would like students to help us with are,Following marketing strategy plans to create ~10 social media ads Create ~10 graphic design assets (digital banners, document templates, website assets)Help us in effective layout design in high-text based documents

Non-profit Youth Programs Launch in Sustainable STEM

The Human and Nature Youth Club is focused on providing educational and fun programs for youth with an emphasis on developing their naturalistic intelligence and social responsibility. HNYC is launching a new club chapter initiative for high school students called NatureX. Interested high school students will open a Nature X club in their school and go through the process and journey of running a club and leading their peers to complete the NatureX curriculum. The student(s) for this project will be assisting to create the general framework of the future clubs: rule book, procedures, curriculum, advertising, website design, copywrite, etc. Essentially support all the preparatory work before HNYC can welcome its first group of club leaders!

Graduate Student Research Advisor - Environmental Education

The research advisor will support the research initiatives for an undergraduate peer-led research team. Our topic/study is pre-post-test of pro-environmental behaviours and attitudes in grades 1-7 that attend a educational outdoor summer camp. The goal of the project is to properly plan the project from start to finish.

Copywriting Marketing SEO/Newsletter- Sustainability Non-profit

We want students to help us optimize our SEO (through the wix platform) and the copywriting for our website and new newsletter marketing channel. Our target is to optimize our writing on the back and front end to better attract our target audience and display ourselves in the best way possible. This project is focused on building on our existing brand image to bring our written marketing text (copywriting) to life. Scope: The main objectives we would like students to help us with are:Optimize existing SEO settings on our Wix platformCreate from scratch a newsletter marketing channelOptimize the copywriting on our websiteRequirements:Proficient in copywriting/persuasive writing Knowledgeable in effective graphic design principles and strategies

Engagement & Social Media Coordinator - Climate Change and Sustainability

We are looking for an organized and social media savvy individual with strong communication knowledge to help grow and implement LCOY Canada’s social media communication. This role will involve using your expertise in communication, graphic design, social media channels, and customer service to oversee anything and everything related to running LCOY Canada’s social media. The role will be under the Public Relations (PR) team and work largely independently. Furthermore, the individual will drive LCOY Canada’s engagement efforts across youth and youth organization. This role will involve using your expertise in communications and relationship building to oversee our efforts to meaningfully engage youth-focused organizations for their participation in the conference. The role will assist the LCOY Canada Conference Organizer and Engagement Lead to continue to manage the existing relationship with partnered organizations, build new ones, and build the attendance of youth for LCOY Canada.

Graphic Designer - Climate Change Conference

We want students to help us create beautiful and engaging graphic design assets for a few public relation campaigns and areas likes social media, our website, and print material. The graphic design will revolve around event-based purposes, e.g. event website, brochures, posters, etc. Our target is to to build a healthy base of graphic design content to be used throughout the conference. We are looking for students with a stylistic interest in nature themed design.Scope: The main objectives we would like students to help us with are,Following marketing strategy plans to create ~10 social media ads Create ~10 graphic design assets (digital banners, document templates, website assets)Help us in effective layout design in high-text based documents

Marketing Initiatives - Climate Change and Sustainability Activities

We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to drive Human and Nature Youth Club's marketing and engagement efforts to ensure the organization's activities are widely circulated and effectively accessible to all youth in Canada. This role will involve using your expertise in marketing, communication, writing, and relationship building to oversee our efforts to meaningfully engage high school students and youth interested in climate change and sustainability.