PROJECT

PROPOSAL

Ruff Times

Matthew Miura, Dylan Shimomi, Miles Quemuel-Labrador, Joshua Arcayena

 Submitted Jan 28,
Project Details 2021

We will then drive to pick up

With the world facing a global
these donations and collect
pandemic, new problems are
them in order to donate to a
constantly emerging. The economy
has taken a massive hit over the humane society or foundation.
past few months which has people We will be able to benefit those
not only struggling to pay their bills, who are unable to afford food
but also struggling to take care of for their pets. We will also be
their pets. Struggling to pay their able to connect those who are
bills causes little or no money left to fortunate enough to be able to
spend on pet food which is causing donate pet food with those
a need for pet food and other pet who are not.
necessities.
Most people can make
donations but don’t have
Our plan is to fix this problem by the time or are too lazy.
creating a pet food drive and We are going to be the
donating the donations we receive. people who take that
Dylan Shimomi, Miles Quemuel- problem out of their
Labrador, and Matthew Miura, will situation in order to make
be reaching out to the community it possible for them to
using several different tactics (social
donate without having to
media, flyers, posters), requesting
do anything.
donations of either money, pet food,
or any other pet products they
would like to donate.
 The issue that is being addressed is
the need for pet food. There are
people who may not have the
money to spend on food for their
pets, especially during a global
Purpose pandemic. Because of this many
dogs become malnourished and will
go hungry for days and weeks at a
time. In some worst-case scenarios
these dogs will die of hunger or be
left with many irreversible effects
for the rest of their lives. What we
have proposed is extremely
necessary because with the aid of
us and other people willing to
donate many people and their pets
can avoid ever going into these
situations. Some of the people that
will benefit from the work we will do:
people with low-income incapable
of purchasing dog food, the dogs,
and the people that donate the
food.
We feel that this issue hasn’t been
addressed significantly in the past
because it has only revealed itself
to become a prevalent problem in
the past year during the
pandemic. From what we currently
know only some animal shelters
such as the humane society and
other pet food companies work in
the field that we are aiming to do
good in. The humane society and
some of these companies have
been doing things like what we
plan to do such as donating dog
food to organizations which then
distribute them. We believe that
this is not enough, and we can
improve this because through our
plan and process we are aiming
to: educate the public about this
issue, donate food, and call on our
friends and the public to do
something to address this issue.

We chose this approach because we thought

it was the most effective and efficient way to
solve the problem. We realized that this is
the most direct way to get the donations to
the non-profit or organization we plan on
giving it to. There are other approaches to
this problem such as making the dog food.
We realized that this would not fit the
timeline we were given and only cause us to
rush. We also realized that using the method
of creating our own food wouldn’t work
because we have no professional way of
keeping this food for expiring. Receiving
donations of bagged dog food that is
professionally packaged and will last a long
time would work best.
 Timeline
Task 1: Making Social Media/Email Task Jan 30th
2: Pitch Video Task Jan 30th - Feb 3rd
3: Making Posters/Flyers
Feb 2nd
Task 4: Advertising/Publicizing
Feb 3rd - Feb 7th
Task 5: Talking/Coordinating with
people who want to donate Feb 4th - 21st
Task 6: Meet ups/picking up Task Feb 4th - 27th
7: Organizing and Sorting Donations Feb 4th - 28th
Task 8: Donating TBD: need to contact organizations.

We hope to be able to contribute to solving the problem

and helping people to not have to worry for a little bit with
the dog food they will receive. We hope that this will allow
people to not have to spend their money on pet food and
be able to focus on paying their bills. This will hopefully help
to get people on their feet and have a little extra money to
focus on other things. We are the best to do what we
proposed to do because we genuinely care about this
problem. We all have dogs of our own and can imagine
what it would be like if we were unable to feed out pets. We
also have the skills in order to get this done. We are
outgoing, creative, artistic, and enthusiastic which is
important for this project.
 Evaluation & Budget
Product Price

Gas 70$ a tank

Paper 5$ a 500 count
Printing Services 5$ total

Although our project requires little amounts of funds and

can be run without an extravagant amount of money, we do
have a plan if we run out of funds. In a scenario where we
have no funds, we would resort to using the donations that
we have collected previously. This would work because since
our project is low funded, the cash donated will run our
project even if the amount is minimal. This would also not
be extremely detrimental to our project’s efficiency because
from the research that we have done having a bag of dog
food is more valuable than having the cash to buy and if we
put the money to things such as gas and flyers, we are able
to travel and collect more bags of food and get more value
rather than just spending it towards dog food.