Potential Projects

Provided are some ideas upon which you could base your fellowship proposal and a list of organization in the Upper Valley.

Potential organizations you could work with in the Upper Valley.

Tucker/Class ‘82

 Application Advisor

 In a survey provided to organizations in the Upper Valley, here are some of their responses when asked about further development in resource- or revenue-development projects, and outreach and/or communications in their organizations.

Stern Center for Language and Learning:

The Stern Center wishes to expand its service to learners, families, and education, medical, child-care professionals in the greater Upper Valley region. The need for our literacy services of evaluation/instruction, professional development and research has become clearer throughout southern Vermont and New Hampshire.           

As part of expanding our service depth in the Upper Valley Region we hope to develop a network of Stern Center Friends to help establish a broader community sense of the Stern Center as an educational resource to the community and its public and private education and medical systems. 

Upper Valley Business Education Partnership:

UVBEP wants to review its Partner School fee structure which has not changed since we incorporated in 1999, despite significant changes in program scope and impact. In addition, we want to research and suggest alternative sources of funding for schools to cover their fees. We also want to adjust our corporate funding levels to offer more opportunities for giving to specific initiatives. Our Advancement committee is just beginning to brainstorm ideas for moving forward with both issues.     

UVBEP initiated a Community Outreach committee this year to explore school administrator relations in an effort to sustain partnerships with schools. We also want to create a regular newsletter with program spotlights for our stakeholders. While these are two specific outreach/communications projects, we also want to create an overall outreach/communications strategy. 

Center for School Success:

Need to collate and evaluate learning "trends" we have collected over past 5 years and create way to present findings (posters, charts, graphs). Also would like to create a database of customers and donors and increase the organization's networking structure.  

We are a small organization with limited capacity to pursue the outcomes of our work despite our desire to do so. One project might include having a student serve as an "outside" impartial evaluator who visits the schools we work with and interviewing teachers to learn which elements of CSS work have been most beneficial. 

Vermont Institute of Natural Science:

Certain new environmental education programs (e.g., teacher professional development) require up-front investment in content development and marketing before they can be launched and begin to earn steady revenue through fees and sponsorships. We often pursue such content development and marketing work on "nights and weekends," which prolongs the launch period for the new programs.    

VINS has established Outreach Presentations for stimulating interest in our formal environmental education programs among school children and their teachers. We're not sure these presentations are always the best, most cost-effective way to communicate with these target audiences. We are evaluating alternative outreach/communication projects that may be more effective. 

Hubbard Brook Research Foundation:

Research on foundation grants and on development software systems.       

Newsletters, both web based and paper; other reports. 

Upper Valley LandTrust:

We would like to develop a visible annual fundraiser, perhaps a point to point trail run or hike.     

We need to more fully develop our website and establish an integrated e-newsletter. 

Grafton County Senior Citizens Council:

Inadequate staffing for marketing and development--a promising corporate sponsorship program, updating the website, following new leads for fund-raising...       

Regularly updating the website! 

BONNIE CLAC:

We need to develop additional relationships with nonprofits to have them use Bonnie CLAC's expertise to buy cars and have lacked the capacity to be able to implement this service.

Bonnie CLAC needs to communicate better with our target low income and vulnerable individuals. This will help us develop new business and come closer to becoming self sustaining

Twin Pines Housing Trust:

Grant-writing, grant research, other.

Revamping our membership structure and communicating that to constituents.

Student Conservation Association:

As a national nonprofit based in the UV, we always have needs to pursue projects that will increase awareness, outreach and revenue in the region. Specifically, we are currently building a high performance facility for which we need to secure underwriting for various green elements especially from area businesses.    

As with the above question, we can use help focused on increasing awareness and understanding of our organization's role in the area. With the construction of our LEED building we would like to have an educational curriculum developed and delivered on our website illustrating the benefits of high performance buildings.         

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