Group Project So Far

So our group is the NJSPCA, which is the New Jersey chapter of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. This is a not for profit organization and is based out of New Brunswick. Our group assignment is to generate more awareness of the organization, and overall get more funding available. We had a little bit of a technicality the first week because we were all supposed to have met with clients and created a brief to hand in. Our client happened to be on vacation for the week we were doing the assignment, so we actually got an extension.

Since we had to complete our briefs the following week, it was a little hectic because everyone already had prior arrangements since it is spring break. We arranged to meet with our client over the phone, and had the opportunity to do our first conference call ever. I think we were pretty successful with our call, and we did get a lot of the information we needed in order to do our brief. It was very awkward at first, and we didn’t really get the proper format for a conference call, like if we all had to introduce ourselves, and we were a little unorganized with what types of questions we needed to ask the man. I think we did a good job thought and I feel like we pulled a successful conference call with the little time we prepared.

As for writing the brief, I feel like we didn’t really know what we were doing, and if our format was correct. I think what we created was a good start, but we will definitely need some editing and insight from our professor before we send the brief back to our client. I feel like the overall project is going to be fun because I really care about animals, and I like knowing that I will be learning a lot from this experience, and am finally getting a chance to do my schoolwork for real life situations. The only thing I am a little bit bummed about is that we were not assigned to create any type of event; we were assigned just to generate awareness. I feel like we will need to do some person to person situations, but I still was looking forward to actually coordinating something. But we will see!!!!!