Grant Writing

Our organization is interested in addressing societal issues and supporting social causes. However, we are currently facing funding challenges. We would like to collaborate with students to find and complete grant applications. This will involve several different steps for the students, including: Familiarizing themselves with our vision statement and a project we have defined. Developing a needs statement that characterizes the community problem and justifies the need for our project and funding. Identifying potential sponsors and funding opportunities that are a good fit for our organization and project. Improving the clarity and persuasiveness of our company's grant proposal writing. Bonus steps in the process would also include: Identifying new opportunities for community projects.

Graphic Design - Calendar and Planning Templates Creation

Our company is looking to expand its service offering to provide planning templates that clients can use to keep organized. We are looking to create a series of monthly, weekly, daily, meeting notes, and pages that would be printable and potentially used to create full yearly planners. This may involve: Designing multiple calendar page template outlines (various sizes), using inspiration pages and already created pages to make various versions of each Creating a new branding guide that is new, but still aligned with our existing branding including fonts, colors, logo usage and imagery to be used. Meeting with the owner to review designs and make revisions as needed Executing the full designs for each asset using Canva, based on the approved thumbnails. Creating multiple thumbnails with different layouts and designs to ensure variety

Digital Content Creation

Our company is a rapidly growing marketing consulting firm. We hope to revamp our social media and email marketing content to attract more customers. We would like students to help us create content that is aligned with our vision, mission, and sector. This could involve making content for the business profile along with the owner/operator's Instagram. This will involve several different steps for the students, including: Familiarizing themselves with our company’s offering, aesthetic, mood board, marketing goals, and target market. Researching factors affecting the quality of digital content - we are very different from other marketing agencies and our content should reflect that. We will provide a list of companies who we are targeting so you can get a sense of their persona and write, shoot, edit content that speaks directly to them Suggesting ideas for digital content and designing new social media posts and emails. Recommending content ideas and things that the owner/staff should create to fit with the brand guidelines Recommending and designing new digital content not already used by our company. Bonus steps in the process would also include: Testing and improving designs based on feedback.

Public Automobile Insurance Plan Documentary Research

The main goal for the project is to conduct research for a documentary about the public automobile insurance plan for each province in Canada. This will involve several different steps for the students, including: - Researching and gathering information about the public automobile insurance plans in each province. - Analyzing the differences and similarities between the insurance plans. - Interviewing experts and individuals knowledgeable about the insurance plans. - Compiling all the gathered information into a comprehensive report for documentary production.