Team Project Informal Proposal The Scenario: The Dallas Chamber of Commerce has developed a friendly competition, Businesses

s Give Back, in order to promote social responsibility and community engagement among Dallas-area businesses. The competition asks businesses to create a program, event, or community action project that is designed to address an important need in the Dallas area. The Chamber will pay half of the cost of the winning project. Your boss has wholeheartedly embraced this competition. He recognizes that it is important for businesses to give back to their communities (not to mention he really wants to win). He has created several teams and instructed each team to create an informal proposal for an internal, company-round of the competition. Your boss and the Community Engagement Committee (CEC) will be the only ones reading these proposals. After evaluating all company proposals, your boss and the CEC will select one team to represent the company in the actual Chamber of Commerce competition. The Process Over the first couple weeks, your team must do the following (in no particular order): 1) Choose what company you want to be. This company does not HAVE to be Dallas-based but it might help. 2) Identify a specific, significant need/social issue in the Dallas area. 3) Design an innovative community action project that concretely addresses your need in a meaningful way. You will be given more details about the format/contents of the informal proposal later in the semester. Details To meet minimum requirements for this assignment, your informal proposal must: Be approx. 10 single-spaced pages in length, including cover page and works cited page. o Cite using APA a minimum of 8 sources. Your sources MUST be high-quality, i.e. written by a recognized person or legitimate organization. Include a cover page that incorporates an image/graphic and slogan for your project. Incorporate at least 1 graph or chart that helps you explain the need/social issue youve selected Apply all relevant course material.

Weekly Status Report

In order to facilitate team cohesion and productivity, each team MUST send me a status report via email by 5pm every Sunday. This email must be sent to the gmail address on the syllabus AND TO EVERY MEMBER OF THE GROUP. DO NOT SEND VIA E-LEARNING!! These emails should contain: 1. A description of project work that was accomplished during the week and who did it. 2. A project schedule detailing a) what work has been done, b) what work is being done, c) what work needs to be done. The email must also indicate who is responsible for a,b,and c. 3. Meeting minutes describing any meeting of 2 or more team members. The subject line of the status report email must be in this format: Team # - Status Report for June #

**I reserve the right to penalize team members who do not adequately contribute to this assignment**