Atlanta Chapter of Community Consulting Teams, Inc. 2009 Volunteer Form
Thank you for your interest in the Atlanta Chapter of the Community Consulting Teams, Inc. (CCT). The launch of our 2009 projects is just around the corner, and it’s time to assemble teams to tackle a great slate of projects. Some of you have already made a commitment to work on a project team. For the rest, we hope you will make a commitment below, but if not, we’ll certainly keep you on our distribution list so you can follow CCT’s progress and keep in touch for next year. Please read the below instructions and complete this form. If you have not submitted a resume or overview of your education and career background (with complete contact information), please include it with your completed application to help us in assembling well-balanced project teams. CCT will assemble project teams on the basis of your interests and skills. We try to get a blend of backgrounds and skills so you can work with people outside of your normal circle of colleagues. If you have any questions, contact Kevin Lewis at scratch@mindspring.com or (404) 754-1454. Indicate your top 4 project choices from the drop-down boxes provided in Section IV. Project descriptions are attached at the end of this form. When making your choices please consider picking a project that takes advantage of your skills or experience. Whenever possible, we will provide you with one of your top choices. Please note we have added a ―Wherever I Can Help‖ choice for those who do not have a project preference. Return this form indicating your preferences by e-mail to Kevin (scratch@mindspring.com) no later than January 9th. For subject line write ―CCT Volunteer Form‖ to help distinguish the e-mail. If you have project management or consulting experience, please consider being a Team Leader. This role is important to the success of the project. While it requires a little more work than other team roles (perhaps 2 additional hours per month), it also has the benefit of greater impact. Team Leaders serve as primary contact with the client and keep their team on track. We will announce project teams at the January 31st orientation event so you will have a chance to meet your teammates. Our orientation session is scheduled for January 31st from 8:30 AM to 12:00 PM at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in downtown Atlanta (435 Peachtree Street—where Peachtree crosses the downtown connector). Teams will set a date for the client kick-off meeting and begin project planning. ATTENDANCE AT THIS ORIENTATION IS MANDATORY, UNLESS PRIOR PERMISSION TO MISS IT HAS BEEN GRANTED BY CCT. Please let us know if there is any circumstance that absolutely prevents you from attending.
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I. Contact/General Information Please indicate ―n/a‖ for any items below that do not apply. We will not release this information, however it must be distributed to the participant’s team. Name: Preferred Email: Alternative Email: Home Address: Preferred Phone Number: Alternative Phone Number: Company: Work Title: Work Address:
I heard about CCT from (please check all that apply): Atlanta Business School Alliance Colleague who worked on a previous CCT project Colleague who heard about CCT but did not participate in a project MBA Alumni Club Other (please specify)
II. Your Background Graduate School: Undergraduate School: Graduation Year: Graduation Year: No Degree: Degree: Major: Major:
Are you currently a student? Yes If yes, part-time full-time If yes, which school?
Have you worked on a one or more CCT Teams before? (Check all that apply)
No, this is my first team Yes, as a Team Member Yes, as a Team Lead Yes, as a Team Liaison I have worked with CCT prior, number of years
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Areas in which you have significant/relevant experience (please check all that apply): Marketing Communications Branding Operations/Process Reengineering Organizational Development Strategic Planning Other (please specify) Advertising/ PR Market Research and Analysis Financial Management and Analysis Information Technology/ Systems Business Plan Development
III. Volunteer Responsibilities The projects you will be undertaking are of great importance to our clients. They have already invested their time and energy into the application and screening process to be selected, and will further devote some of their scarce resources to work with us on the project. For this reason, we require each volunteer to commit to the following responsibilities. If you are unable or unsure you can do so, please contact us immediately so that we can determine if CCT involvement is appropriate for you this year. Please indicate your agreement with the following by checking each box: I have no significant commitments (extended travel out of the country, family obligations, etc.) during January – June 2009 that would prevent my full participation on a team. I agree to devote a minimum of 10 - 12 hours per month to the project to which I am assigned. If unanticipated events prevent me from fulfilling my responsibilities, I will promptly notify my team, and make provisions to transition my responsibilities to other team members. We also believe that it is important for volunteers to participate in all aspects of the project work, including the orientation session in January and the mid-project review in March. Please indicate your expectation to fulfill all of the project milestones below. I will attend the orientation session on January 31st, 2009 from 8:30 AM to 12:00 PM. I will participate in the mandatory mid-project review on either March 21st or 28th, 2009 from approximately 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM (each team will have the opportunity to request a preferred date and one hour time-slot during the morning of either date). I understand that final project deliverables are due by June 1, 2009. If you are unsure of your ability to fulfill any of the project milestones above, please feel free to provide additional comments:
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IV. Project Preference After reviewing the short project summaries, please indicate your top 4 preferences below.
I would like to be considered for a Team Leader Role First Choice: Second Choice: Third Choice: Fourth Choice:
- Indicate Preference - Indicate Preference - Indicate Preference - Indicate Preference -
I can’t volunteer for a CCT project team this year, but would like to help CCT in some other way. Please indicate if you have a particular role in mind. Someone from CCT will contact you to discuss other ways in which you can help. I can’t volunteer this year, but please keep me on your distribution list for next year. Are there any circumstances that we need to take into account when assembling project teams? Please indicate: Resume: I am attaching my resume (or an educational and career overview) I previously submitted my resume. Please feel free to provide any additional comments:
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Consulting Projects for 2009 Brookhaven Arts Alliance Atlanta, GA; Annual Budget: $40,000 The Brookhaven Arts Alliance currently hosts large cultural events for families and the community, to raise money for their ultimate mission to develop a full-time arts center. Their goal is to provide art education for children, adults, seniors, and those with high functioning learning disabilities. They want the CCT Team to help them develop plans to attract additional volunteers and other interested parties to advance the organization’s mission. Also, help in developing a preliminary business plan to fund a sustainable community arts center without jeopardizing its established, profitable events. http://www.brookhavenartsalliance.com/ Buzzly Fire Safety, Inc. Brooks, GA; Annual Budget: $150,000 Buzzly Fire Safety is committed to educating children, enlightening families, and increasing the awareness of communities to fire safety. The CCT Team would assist with high-level strategic planning to help them review their current strategies, identify top strategic issues (needs and gaps) within our existing strategies (marketing, membership, programs, growth, operational…), and identify actions to address them. http://www.buzzlyfiresafety.com/
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Community and Housing Initiatives Corporation (CHIC) Atlanta, GA; Annual Budget: $25,000 plus $60,000 of in-kind contributions and volunteer hours. CHIC provides onsite supportive services to 500+ residents of a historic, mixed income housing development, including direct training, counseling, food, clothing, furniture and other referrals to help individuals remain self sufficient. The CCT Team would help them explore options for enhancing the financial stability of the organization, including securing financial support through small business loans and identifying and scheduling fee-for-service opportunities. http://communityhousingcorp.org/CHIC_Company.html The Community Welcome House, Inc. Newnan, GA (but most meetings will happen in Atlanta); Annual Budget: $265,000.00 Community Welcome House educates the community on the many facets of domestic violence, while providing refuge and facilitating change for its victims. The CCT Team would help them craft educational and informational tools including: power point presentations for use with community leaders and others to build awareness of the problem, and posters for use in business and community settings to better reach those in need of their services. http://www.communitywelcomehouse.org/ Essential2life, Inc. Atlanta GA; Annual Budget: $575,000 E2L creates innovative and effective life change programming for Atlanta’s at-risk urban youth through two primary programs, a state-of-the-art digital design center and a leadership development program for at-risk inner-city youth. The CCT Team will help them create operational policies and procedures to help E2L effectively manage the growth of these programs. In addition, they want assistance with a marketing plan to create awareness among students, administrators within APS, and potential strategic partners who may be able to provide funding, materials, or expertise. http://e2lonline.com/ Hammonds House Museum (HHM) Atlanta, GA; Annual Budget: $250,000 Hammonds House Museum preserves, exhibits, and increases public awareness about the contributions that visual artists of African descent have made and continue to make to world culture. The CCT Team would help them with evaluation of their work environment, including examining and breaking down job tasks, conducting simple time and motion studies, reviewing processes that are in place, and making recommendations which will help staff function more effectively. The resulting product should result in streamlined methods of operation and consistent professionalism in work place behavior. http://www.hammondshouse.org/volunteers.html Keystone Center for Children with Autism, Inc. Alpharetta, GA; Annual Budget: $271,319 Keystone is dedicated to the educational and social development of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, and to providing support and training to families affected by Autism. The CCT Team would help develop an effective marketing and promotion plan they can use to increase financial support and to help attract a volunteer network to assist with fundraising programs (i.e., event planning, cold calling, development of donor lists, etc.). http://www.keystoneatlanta.org/
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The Giving Tree Decatur, GA; Annual Budget: $546,440 plus in-kind donations of $50,000 The Giving Tree identifies and trains families to provide permanent, loving and stable homes for these children; supporting these families before, during and after the adoption process. A changing environment means they need help rethinking their current business model. The CCT Team would help them examine the advantages and disadvantages of various strategies including (1) using foster care to subsidize our core business; (2) merging with another adoption agency; (3) increasing training programs and offering services outside of Georgia; and (4) new fund raising initiatives. http://www.thegivingtree.org/ HARMONY: Atlanta’s International Youth Chorus Atlanta, GA; Annual Budget: $85,000 (plus approximately $30,000 from in-kind donations from the AJC and rehearsal locations.) Harmony creates a spirit of community in the Atlanta area through high quality choral training and performance opportunities for youth, ages 6 to 18, who reflect the cultural diversity of our city. The CCT Team would help them develop a marketing plan including some modules and action items for each of their key constituents – singers, sponsors, patrons, parents. As time allows they would like assistance with webpage strategy and design to support the new marketing plan. http://www.harmonychorus.org/ Safe Kids Georgia Atlanta, GA; Annual Budget: $237, 209 Safe Kids Georgia keeps Georgia’s children age 14 and younger free from unintentional injuries through the use of community partnerships and advocacy to provide access to and education about the proper use of safety equipment. The focus is on preventing injuries in the areas of traffic, drownings, burns, poisoning/choking, falls and unintentional shootings. The CCT Team would help them develop plans and tools so that they can support the strategic and operational planning of their 22 coalitions. http://www.safekidsgeorgia.org/ Scottdale Child Development and Family Resource Center, Inc. Scottdale GA; Annual Budget: $1,006,417 Scottdale Child Development Center’s mission is to enhance the total development of young children while strengthening their families and communities by providing high quality early care and education that is affordable to diverse families. The CCT Team would review previous market research, core findings from a current strategic planning and program evaluation process, and existing print and online collaterals, and craft a marketing plan that addresses how to effectively articulate their brand with potential customers. http://www.scottdale.org/ Wholistic Stress Control Institute, Inc. (WSCI) Atlanta, GA; Annual Budget: $1,113,480 for community programs and $40,000 for sales department. WSCI promotes wellness and healthy lifestyle choices for children and adults through training and educational materials. In addition to stress management services, WSCI operates 15 free community prevention programs in juvenile delinquency, substance abuse, teenage pregnancy, violence, and HIV/AIDS; WSCI operates a sales department to promote and sell its stress educational products and trainings. The CCT Team will follow-up on work begun by a CCT Team in 2006, including review of WSCI existing data on products, customers and markets; summary situation analyses of program/product; marketing strategies for selected products/programs; and assistance with implementation of these strategies. http://www.wholistic1.com/
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Wilderness Works, Inc. Atlanta, GA; Annual Budget: $166,000 Wilderness Works provides homeless and economically disadvantaged Atlanta children enrichment, experiential education and recreation across an entire year including school and summer months with culmination at high quality summer camps. They need help in thinking strategically and improving their Kids To Camp summer camp program. They need help in building relationships both to increase awareness of their program, increase the number of applicants to the program, but also to broaden the mix of camps and transportation vendors on which they can draw. The CCT project will result in stronger networking with families, schools, churches, civic groups, neighborhood organizations, summer camps (essentially vendors), transportation services and donors towards this end. http://www.wildernessworks.org/ Youth Academic Business and Ballers Association (YABBA) Marietta GA; Annual Budget: $4,000 + substantial in-kind support YABBA has developed a unique approach of using basketball as the ―attention hook‖ for providing ―exposure opportunities‖ for males between 4th and 10th grades. ―Exposure opportunities‖ include collegiate tours and collegiate lifestyle overviews from a variety of schools and students, enhanced math skills and standardized testing preparation, and an introduction to business opportunities surrounding the game of basketball. Our motto is ―books, business and ball‖. The CCT team would conduct a SWOT analysis of the current program, including identification and analysis of other competing basketball programs. Pending the outcome of that analysis, YABBA would like the team to develop a plan including personnel, finances and strategy to facilitate expansion into additional markets, both locally and around the nation. http://www.theyabba.org/ Youth Leadership for Global Health, Inc. (YLGH) Atlanta, GA; Annual Budget: $100,000 YLGH’s mission is to connect middle and high school youth to experiences that transform their health behaviors to prevent disease. YLGH depends on a variety of different constituencies and needs a marketing/promotion plan that is tailored to each one. A CCT project would create messages for each audience (liaisons, parents, youth, and community partners) and test these for effectiveness, providing YLGH would have a clear brand with which to market and prospect for volunteers in all areas. http://www.ylgh.org/index.html
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