Competitive Analysis

It’s important for us to have a better understanding of how our target audience perceives our brand and competitors. We want to develop clarity on our competitive advantages and optimize our marketing strategy. This project will include: An identification of our current competitors An identification of potential future competitors (eg. a large company in a similar industry who may enter the space) The creation of a matrix identifying features shared across the companies and those that are different. A summary of 2-4 paragraphs describing our competitive advantages and disadvantages relative to the competition identified. This could be done in the form of a SWOT analysis. We will give you access to organizational assets to support this project such as personnel, website analytics, sales and brand collateral, and more. We can suggest names of competitors to research. Objective We hope to gain a comprehensive understanding of the competitors in our space and how we can differentiate ourselves through our product/service offering, and our messaging.

HR SharePoint Build Out

Students will build out a skeleton of Inform Your Community's HR Portal on SharePoint. We have most of the content and a rough idea of the design. We are currently an all volunteer organization and are poised to start hiring. As we grow we want to make sure we have everything HR related all set up and ready!

Optimizing Budget for Best Practices in the Nonprofit Space

The goal of this project is to optimize the budget of Inform Your Community, a nonprofit organization, for best practices in the nonprofit space. This will involve refining the categories of the budget for alignment with Quickbooks categories and the 990 requirements. This will involve several different steps for the students, including: - Analyzing the current budget and identifying areas for improvement. - Researching best practices in the nonprofit space and Quickbooks categories. - Comparing the current budget to the best practices and Quickbooks categories. - Developing a plan to refine the budget categories for alignment with Quickbooks and 990 requirements. - Implementing the plan.

Human Resources Deliverables

We would like students to help us with creating content that is aligned with our vision, mission, and sector. We will ensure the student has a clear understanding of what these elements are for our organization. Specifically, we are looking to create (1) our first Employee Manual as well as (2) ADA compliant job descriptions for our positions and (3) a best practice procedure document for creating future job descriptions. Check out what we do at https://www.informyourcommunity.org. If you like the sound of our culture and our mission and are ready to tackle this challenge with us, then we'd love to hear from you.