Friday, November 7, 2008

My Proposal

For my problem, I chose to address the fact that there are still Jewish kids on Virginia Tech's campus who are unaware of Hillel or even the fact that there is a Jewish organization associated with the school. So, in order to get the word out I decided to follow the protocol of what I see many other organizations do. It is basically going to be a multi-step advertising kids in all of the locations/ways which students look.

  1. I am going to design the little cards which advertise organizations and events in all of the dining halls on campus (they are always where the salt/pepper and napkins are on the table).
  2. I want to put up posters in all of the dorms. In every dorm I have been in there is a specific area for posters for current evcnts, general information, and also organizations.
  3. In Squires, there are some bulletin board displays throughout the building which people decorate and use to advertise their organizations. I want to make one for Hillel, and even though it will only be up for maybe a month (I have no idea the actual time length) it is still a chance for kids to read about the organization. Ideally this would be done towards the beginning of the year.
  4. In the beginning of the year there are always fairs for the new students, and I guess the returning ones also, in order for them to get involved with the multiple groups and organizations on campus. I could be wrong, but I do not remember Hillel specifically having a booth at any of these fairs. So, I want to make them have a booth for next year.
  5. Finally, I want Hillel to get onto 'The Roomer' which is a poster which lists major events happening on campus and also interviews some people who work at the school and such. I don't know all of the places which the posters are, all I know is that they are on the back of the bathroom doors in my dorm as well as in the halls, so I am sure that they are at least in the halls of other residential halls.

These are my ideas for getting the word of Hillel out to campus more. And, I can not wait to produce some of them for class.

Let me know what you think and if you have any other ideas/suggestions!

1 comment:

grete said...

This sounds great, Allison. Are you hoping some of these will actually be used? If so, I suggest talking to the people in charge of Hillel, running some of these ideas by them, and seeing what they think might be most useful to focus on creating.