Workshop: Project Proposal Exercise

Worshops for the Community Leaders
Anatomy of the Project Proposal

Summary - Clearly and concisely summarizes the proposal.

Background - Accurately describes the organization’s qualifications and credibility in carrying out the proposed project.

Problem Statement - Identifies the problem or problems to be solved by the project proposal.

Objectives - Identifies the short term and long term goals that the proposal plans to meet.

Description of activities - Provides a detailed description of the activities that will be carried out under the proposal.

Evaluation - Provides a plan for measuring the success of the proposal.

Budget - Clearly identifies all costs and shows which costs are to be met by the sponsor and which costs will be met by your organization or a partner source.

Workshop: EMPATHY

Workshops for Community Leaders
EMPATHY EXERCISE


PURPOSE: To enlarge understanding of the problems of others and to give help in solving them To experience what one' s own problem looks like seen through the eyes of others. To experience the wisdom of the group aiding with each person's problem. To become aware of common threads in ail of our experiences.

TIME REQUIRED: 60 minutes

MATERIALS: Index or file cards and writing instrument for each participant.

PROCEDURE:
1. Divide the group into small groups of no more than 5 persons each. Provide each person with a file or index card and writing instrument.

2. Instruct the group that each person is to write on a card, " A problem I’m working on is ..." and finish the sentence. The cards are not to be signed. Once written, they are collected, shuffled, and redistributed at random within the small group. (If in the redistribution, a person receives back his own card, this is to be exchanged with someone else's so that each participant has a problem to deal with other than his own.)

3. Each person then reads to the group the card that he has received in the redistribution, reading it as if it were his own problem. He then explains it to the group, perhaps including ways he thinks of to solve it. Others then give their own experience with solving that sort o f problem, and their ownsuggestions.

4. Repeat this process until every problem raised in the small group has been dealt with by the group.

NOTE:Give plenty of time to this exercise. For many, it becomes the heart of the
workshop. It can be a turning point for a person who had been isolated and not
understood.
(Make any additional notes here of your experiences with this activity.)

Workshop: Imagine a better community

Worshops for Community Leaders
IMAGINE A BETTER COMMUNITY

PURPOSE: To think about what a better community might be, "to develop community among ourselves while doing such thinking, to think about concrete steps that might lead to such a community, to strengthen in us the ability to take such steps.

MATERIALS: Newsprint, magie markers, and work space for groups.

TIME REQUIRED: 30 minutes

PROCEDURE: Divide the participants into groups of five or six (preferably with a facilitator for each group). Ask the groups to sit together and let ideas come into their heads about what would be an ideal community; how it would handle work, food, crime, children, transportation, etc. Ask them to talk a little about this in their groups, and then to draw such a community. Have each group share in the larger group what it' s community is like. Then ask them to sit in a re!axed way. Ask them to visualize themselves living in their community. Now ask them what steps would be needed to get from the lives and communities they now have to the better community. They should be as concrete as possible about a few of these steps. Then say: "It takes courage to take such steps. Can you pick out one or two such steps that you couid really take that would help lead to that better community? Visualize yourself taking such steps. Contract with yourself: you really will take those steps. Give yourself a time limit to accomplish.one step, do it, then do the next one.

FACILITATOR'S NOTES: (Make any additional notes here of your experiences with this activity).

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Agenda

Dan 1
Upoznavanje sa programom i organizacijom
Upoznavanje učesnika
Pravila grupe i posledice
Rasprava o pravilima grupe
Donošenje odluka
III sektor

Dan 2
Kooperativna igra
Definisanje problema
Ime, misija, logo, NGO
Ciljevi i aktivnosti
Registracija, propisi
Volonteri
Pisanje predloga projekta i aktivnosti – vežba

Dan 3
Budžet
Mapiranje stakeholdera
Akcioni plan
Evaluacija i Izveštavanje

Dan 4
Pronalaženje sredstava
PR (saopštenje za javnost; konferencija za štampu)
Evaluacija
Sertifikati

Workshops for Community Leaders

4-day Plan Workshops for Community Leaders has been developed by Newly trained trainers within the ``Community Works`` project.

AGENDA

Day 1
Intro to program & your organization
Intro of participants (poster & interview)
Rules & Consequences for group
``5 Evil Dragons`` (cooperation)
Discussion of rules in a group
Active listening
Decision Making
III Sectors
Concentric circles
Quick decisions
Ways of making decisions``end of world``

Day 2
Cooperative game (house or island)
Defining problem (brainstorming; small groups, prioritize)
Name, mission, logo, NGO
Present: Name, mission, logo, NGO
Goals and activities
Registration, regulations – give examples
Volunteers
Anatomy of project
Writing project and activities

Day 3
Budget
Stakeholder mapping
Presentations
Action plan
Evaluation
Reporting
Cool down activity

Day 4
Warm up
Fundraising (intro; brainstorming; role play)
PR (press release; press conference)
Evaluation
Diplomas