Explore basic concepts in the non-profit sector. Explore current giving trends for small-to-medium-sized nonprofits, with a focus on education and education technology.

Fundraising in Education and Education Technology Overview

Explore basic concepts in the non-profit sector.
Explore current giving trends for small-to-medium-sized nonprofits, with a focus on education and education technology.

This will help you create a Trends overview slide at the end of this project to articulate your understanding of the fundraising landscape in the space.
From the information, you gathered from the Trend Analysis module, apply such as you collate your takeaways from your readings and research. Thereafter, create one summary slide of your own. Think about the new information you have gained and make the connections between what you know as a student and what you gathered from your study.

Use the following template to create the market analysis summary slide with your takeaways from your readings and research.

 

Are you able to see the connection between these 3 ISLO’s and your personal growth? HOW?Discuss.

Now that you are familiar with the ISLO’s introduced in week 1 & 2, this assignment will ask you to consider HOW these might apply to your everyday life!

Step 1: Open the attachment above. It lists the 3 ISLO’s we believe all MCC First Year Experience students should focus on.

Step 2:Answer all the questions listed below about your understanding of these ISLO’s, then attach your document for maximum credit.

a.) Do you think Critical Thinking, Oral & Written Communication and Personal & Professional Development should be embedded into your college course work? Why?
b.) Are you able to see the connection between these 3 ISLO’s and your personal growth? HOW?
c.) Are you able to see the connection between these 3 ISLOs and your professional growth? HOW?
d.) Moving forward from MCC, either by gaining employment or continuing your higher education, how might these 3 ISLOs support your efforts?

Discuss the importance of intercultural communication in your job because your clients may vary in age, gender, race, and ethnicity.

Using the same examples from the mid-summative assessment, if you currently work as a hairstylist, you might discuss the importance of intercultural communication in your job because your clients may vary in age, gender, race, and ethnicity.

You might explain how using some of the visual techniques like contrast or exaggeration of scale could be used on posters displayed in the shop in order to grab the customer’s attention and encourage them to try new hair styles. Lastly, you could use the pathos strategies of idol to get the clients to purchase specific hair products or virtue to encourage them to donate their hair to “Locks of Love.”

If you volunteer at an animal rescue organization, you might want to gather ethnographic narratives  in order to gain a better understanding of why individuals adopt shelter animals and the subsequent joy the animals bring to their lives.

You might want to create an installation art piece  that brings awareness to the ongoing problem of animal overpopulation. Finally, you might want to create a series of social issue posters to encourage individuals to adopt older pets from the shelter .

What was your approach/strategy? How did it vary from platform to platform? What were the challenges?

Well, we know that it should be memorable, convincing, and that both the text and image serve these ends. In Twitter, you will have less characters to work with than Facebook; therefore, you will have to convince in abbreviated fashion. In Instagram, the image is going to drive traffic more than text. You will want to provide links, so it is in your best interest to shorten your links on Twitter using converting sites such as Google URL shortener, Bitly, or Tinyurl.
Think about visual appeal, effective wording, and linking.
Keep in mind some of the social media campaigns we looked at in our case studies in an earlier module. Your endgame is to make others want to share your post or tweet, so work to make it appealing and convincing.
Your completed midterm project must be one document, and must include screenshots of your posts and an at least two-page reflection on the experience addressing these questions:

What was your approach/strategy?
How did it vary from platform to platform?
What were the challenges?
What will your campaign accomplish?
What characteristics of the audience did you target?
Compose your work in a .doc or .docx file type using a word processor  and save it frequently to your computer. For those assignments that are not written essays and require uploading images or PowerPoint slides, please follow uploading guidelines provided by your instructor.

Research paper compare and contrast the leadership and communication techniques of former al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden with those of one other terrorist leader.

Instructions
We have been focusing upon how those at the top of terrorist groups perform leadership roles and influence various audiences . For this research paper compare and contrast the leadership and communication techniques of former al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden with those of one other terrorist leader.

Select one other terrorist leader from al Qaeda or affiliated groups such as Zawahiri, Baghdadi or Awlaki to compare and contrast with bin Laden’s leadership and communication approaches. Include and state this topic in your paper.

Ayman al-Zawahiri

Gohel, S. M.Deciphering Ayman Al-Zawahiri and Al-Qaeda’s strategic and ideological imperatives. Perspectives on Terrorism, 11 (1). pp. 54-67. ISSN 2334-3745. http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/86743/1/Gohel_Deciphering%20Al-Qaeda_2018.pdf

Ayman al-Zawahiri . The Counter Extremist Project. https://www.counterextremism.com/extremists/ayman-al-zawahiri

Is the Landrieu speech effective in its purpose to cast vision for a different kind of future for New Orleans and beyond? From what you have learned, what would make the speech stronger?

Communicating for Change in Racial Conflict

After the Charleston, South Carolina shooting in 2015, Mitch Landrieu, Mayor of New Orleans, proposed to the city council that Confederate statues be removed from the city. Following court rulings in favor of the council, Landrieu gave a speech challenging the city to move forward to remove the monuments and lead New Orleans forward in reconciliation.

For this discussion, you will not be arguing a position on this contemporary issue. Instead, you will be assuming the role of a change vision communication consultant. Using Communicating the Change Vision as a guide, you will assess Landrieu’s 2017 speech for effectiveness. Make sure you respond to each prompt, give specific examples in your assessment of the seven elements, and use level one headings for each of the prompts.

According to Kotter, “That shared sense of a desirable future can help motivate and coordinate the kinds of actions that create transformations.” Is the Landrieu speech consistent or inconsistent with this premise? How or how not?
Which of the “Key Elements in the Effective Communication of Vision” can you identify in the speech? Give examples. What is the impact of the presence of those elements in the speech? Be specific.

Simplicity

Metaphor, analogy, and example

Multiple forums

Repetition

Leadership by example

Explanation of inconsistencies

Give-and-take

Is the Landrieu speech effective in its purpose to cast vision for a different kind of future for New Orleans and beyond? From what you have learned, what would make the speech stronger?

Give suggestions not only on writing style, grammar, etc., but on their analysis. Are your peers seeing their conflict situations clearly? How can you help with solutions for their future?

Interpersonal communication situation

Part of your grade on this paper includes your helpful comments as you review the papers of two of your peers. Give suggestions not only on writing style, grammar, etc., but on their analysis. Are your peers seeing their conflict situations clearly? How can you help with solutions for their future?

Discuss how family is involved in the process of arranged marriage: Which family is involved in the process? Whose voices are heard, and whose voices are NOT heard?

Open a Word document and set it to double-spacing, 12 pt. Times New Roman font.
• Discuss how family is involved in the process of arranged marriage: Which family is involved in the process? Whose voices are heard, and whose voices are NOT heard?
• Based on your observations from the documentary, compare and contrast how arranged
marriage is both different from and similar to how marriage occurs in the United States.
• Apply Erikson’s psychosocial theory, to arranged marriage, using Stages 1, 5, and 6.
o Explain how you believe Stage 1 is related to arranged marriage? How is this crisis resolved in the Indian culture?
o Explain how you believe Stage 5  is affected by the situations
you saw in the film. How is this crisis resolved in the Indian culture?
o Explain how you believe Stage 6 is affected by what you saw in
the film. How is this crisis resolved in the Indian culture?
• Identify and apply TWO (2) types of love you saw demonstrated/evolve in the film, in
accordance with Sternberg’s triangular theory of love. Identify and apply at least TWO forms of love; more are welcome.

What changes have your chosen organization’s members endured? What future change do you foresee for the organization?

Global Communication week 6

Required Textbooks
Leadership: A Communication Perspective
Author: Johnson, C. E., & Hackman, M. Z.
Publisher: Waveland

Readings & Resources
Hackman & Johnson: Chapter 8
Meyer, E. . Getting to si, ja, oui, hai, and da. Harvard Business Review, 93(12), 74-80.
Ruben, B. & Gigliotti, R.  Leadership as social influence: An expanded view of leadership communication theory and practice. Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, 23(4), 467-479.

The company I want you to write about is Target

What changes have your chosen organization’s members endured? What future change do you foresee for the organization? What advice would you offer to help communicate future change, or what recommendations could you have made to help the organization better navigate previous organizational changes? What role does culture play in organizational change? How can you apply this week’s readings about influence and negotiation to organizational change?