Melissa Hill

Legacy Initiative Proposal

Introduction
Legacy Initiative is a local, non-profit organization whose goal is to
fight hunger, provide humanitarian aid, and educate people all across the
Utah valley. They have several designated teams which all fulfill different
types of objectives and projects. There is a Kitchen Crew and Street Outreach
which prepares and distributes meals to homeless people; a Humanitarian
Team that completes projects such as making lockers for homeless people to
store their belongings; a Green team which oversees various community
gardens; a Red Team which patrols the streets to decrease crime and
increase safety by completing tasks such as: removing unsafe paraphernalia,
contacting EMS for distressed persons, and providing First Aid. Lastly there is
the Cause Play team which is implemented to instill super hero qualities in
children and providing them with education through positive role models.
All in all, Legacy Initiative has managed those teams to help better the
community. It has grown to be a charitable, caring way for volunteers to help
other people in the community through the three areas of fighting hunger,
humanitarian aid, and education. They have successfully undergone multiple
service projects over the past few years including creating lockers for the
homeless and undergoing a seeding project to decrease pollution.
Organizations such as this are beneficial to the whole state of Utah and we
are proud to help this organization with a project so that they can continue
helping others with their projects.

Background on the Need

Melissa and Tanner have come in contact with Tedd Mills, who is a
representative for Legacy Initiative. He was able to construct a writing
project for us to complete to benefit this organization. We have been
assigned to materialize a list of job descriptions that are needed within
Legacy Initiative. There are eight different jobs that are needed, including an
accountant and an event coordinator.
The organizations problems and needs are common amongst other
non-profits, and that is recruiting people to do things for free, seeing as it is
a non-profit. Also, they lack the funding to hire individuals to write and post
the positions available, so that is where our group comes in. Doing this will
help their agency to fill their vacancies so that the tasks can be completed
and the organization will run smoothly as a whole.
After we submit our document to Tedd Mills, he will then assign
someone in the company to post it online. Our groups main goal is to create
a presentable, visually-appealing document which can be easily understood
by any job-seeking applicant. We also need this to be done in the next few
weeks so as to accommodate the companys time frame.
Description- Goals & Objectives
Our main objective is to create a visually appealing, easy-to-read
document to display for the companys position needs. We have not
personally been given a due date from Tedd, but have decided on February
26, which will be discussed later, in the Methods section.

Under the previously stated objective, one of the qualifications for this
project will be using proper English writing and proper formatting. This
includes the documents perceived length, which will need to be at least a
half-page for each job description, and with eight jobs, totaling four pages.
Methods
Prior to actually drafting the document, each of us will look for examples of
well-written job descriptions online. That way we will get a good idea of the
end product and be able to draft it in the way that we have thus seen it.
The first method of this project would be assigning certain tasks to all
individuals in our group. Tanner will be in charge of the first draft, then hand
it to me to revise it and more importantly, to check that it is visually
appealing such as the formatting of the document. Grant will then revise it,
all the while each of us adding in whatever we believe to better the
document. This will all be done through email, and after Grant is finished, he
will submit that second draft to each of us to ensure that we all approve of it.
To create this document, as well as any other writing document, we will
need several people to edit and revise it, as well as receive others input on
the appearance and flow of it. This can be done through various classmates
in the Writing course, friends or family members with writing degrees or
professions, or possibly past English teachers or writing tutors. That being
said, after our second draft is completed, we will have one or two of the
tutors from the Writing Center revise it. After that, we can then give the
document to any qualified candidates that our group knows of, my mother

being one of them, seeing as she has an English degree and profession. We
decided on two days for each reviser to revise their portion, including each
group member and Melissas mother. We will not turn the document in to
Tedd Mills until all of the drafting is complete.
Schedule
On February 15, Tanner will start on the first draft. He will then send it
over to Melissa on February 17 for her completion of the document. After
that, it will be sent to Grant on February 19, giving each of us two days to
complete our portions. These dates are of course contingent upon each
members cooperation. If the group does not hear from a member then we
will continue without that member.
After that, Melissa will schedule an appointment in the Writing Center
to have a tutor revise it. The appointments go about a week out, so we are
setting that date for February 22. The appointment will be confirmed later
today, February 15. We will allow for two days to revise that draft from the
Writing Center, giving it a due date of February 24. That is when Melissas
mother will revise her part of the draft, mainly getting a consumers point of
view, making sure that it is readable and visually appealing. This should be
completed on February 26.
This will be great because it will be from a third partys perspective,
which in the long run, this document will mainly be viewed for applicants.
Any other people who can revise this will be notified within the next few days
by that group member, and will most likely fit into the schedule after

February 26, which gives Melissas mother two days to revise as well. As of
now, we will be submitting the list of job descriptions by February 26.
During this time, we will remain in close contact with Tedd Mills so that
he is aware of our progress, updating him on what is going on.
Qualifications
The most obvious qualification for all group members is that at one
point or another, we have applied for some job or internship, where we have
viewed a Job Description. Most of us have probably done this many times,
which could deem us as an expert. We are also consumers of various online
postings, advertisements, etc. so we know what documents look appealing,
and which do not.
We are all at least Juniors at the University of Utah, and have
completed other Writing and English courses to get us to the point of being
able to take this 3000 level course. Given this, all three of us have written
multiple writing documents and have had them graded and critiqued by
teachers, tutors, etc.
Melissa has previously designed a job description for her employment
at Smiths, creating the document for her Produce department and
submitting it to her manager to have it posted online.
Budget
This project should cost little to no money. The only area where there
may be spending would be when we print the pages off for revisions,
however, many of it will be done through online editing and emailing. The

only instance where this may occur is having Melissas mother revise it, and
possibly having the Writing Center revise it as well. That being said, it should
only cost a few cents to have those four pages printed off two separate
times.
Luckily with us being students at the University of Utah, we get free
tutoring at the Writing Center, which is nice because it may have costed a
few bucks to have a separate tutor help us with this.
Transportation costs to and from the University of Utah or other routes
for this project will be contingent upon that individual, and separate from this
cost budget.
Conclusion
Legacy Initiatives representative, Tedd Mills, has asked us to create a
list of job descriptions that we will undergo and have completed by February
26, unless we get another candidate to revise which would then push it back
a few days. Each of us will do our best job of creating, revising, and adding to
the document. We strongly believe this document will turn out well seeing as
we have at least five qualified individuals revising the paper. We want to
ensure that what we do will meet the standards of Legacy Initiative.