- Understand community assets and contexts
- Create and validate strategic objectives
- Establish a multi-functional project team
- Determine and manage project scope
- Produce a schedule that can be managed by critical path and float
- Define the framework by which team members will work together
- Develop aa communication strategy
- Monitor and evaluate project status
- Manage issues, changes and problem solving
Sprout e-course – idea growth
A program of TakingITGlobal
Curriculum & Structure
Topics Covered
Timeline
Sprout is an eight week e-course with an orientation at the beginning and a month of independent study at the end to hand in a final project.
How Does Sprout Work?
Sample Exercises
- Blog about the roles and responsibilities that young social and environmental leaders have in your country and/or region.
- Participate in the class discussion thread by posting your project's elevator pitch and communicating the essence of your project in the most simple and effective way possible to the rest of the class.
- Design your project's action plan, describing the actions that will be taken in order to achieve your project's goals.
- Create a socially responsible project evaluation outline based on your project’s design, goals and outcomes. What does it mean to be accountable to a funding institution? How would your project benefit a potential funder? What does it mean to be accountable to community stakeholders? How would your project benefit your community stakeholders? Do you think it is important for your project to have an evaluation plan? Why or why not?
