Welcome to the course guide for LDR 6110 with Professor Robbie! Use the links included in this guide to help you begin your research for this course. It is important to use reliable, authoritative resources when researching. The resources provided here are carefully selected to provide a strong foundation for more powerful reports.
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NewWave Foundation (NWF) Partnership Strategy and Communication Plan for Financial Literacy
The NewWave Foundation (NWF) seeks to develop an age-appropriate financial literacy program focused on Black and Brown High School and College students within their community. The organization seeks partnerships with other nonprofits, local schools, and corporate partners to successfully launch this new initiative. Organizational leaders seek NEU student support to establish a strategy and communication plan and identify potential partner contacts in this endeavor.
Goal: The desired outcome of the XN Project is a comprehensive partnership strategy and communication plan using an understanding of the financial literacy needs of the student population, and the identification of schools/corporations/nonprofits looking to contribute to achieving positive financial literacy outcomes for students.
Deliverables:
Strategic planning is an organizational management activity that is used to set priorities, focus energy and resources, strengthen operations, ensure that employees and other stakeholders are working toward common goals, establish agreement around intended outcomes/results, and assess and adjust the organization’s direction in response to a changing environment. Effective strategic planning articulates not only where an organization is going and the actions needed to make progress, but also how it will know if it is successful. This is different from a business plan.
A communication plan is a policy-driven approach to providing company stakeholders with certain information. Communication plans are typically used in business settings to ensure all parties have the latest updates on projects, goals and objectives.
What communication channels are we using? What is each channel used for?
When should we communicate in person vs. asynchronously?
What are the project roles? Who is the project manager? Who is on the project team? Who are the project stakeholders?
How are important project details, like project status updates, going to be communicated? How frequently will these be shared?
You and your team have the flexibility to choose how to write the plan. But there are some example templates here, here, and here.
The databases listed below are core databases for general non-profit and marketing research.
Marketing research often requires using interdisciplinary databases, articles and demographics, company and industry data, and more.
To get started, below is a list of helpful search strategies, tips, and best practices to get you started. Try these keywords as suggestions (use your own for a more specific results page for your report)