G.R.E.A.T.

Catalyst
Coalition Final
Presentation
By: Dal Mang, Charlie Escandon, Jalen
Garner, and Dely Roblero-Morales
 Team G.R.E.A.T.
• Focus on one GOAL
• Take RESPONSIBILITY 
• Do what’s ETHICAL
• We are ACCOUNTABLE
• And we work as a TEAM

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 Coach: David

Team Leader: Document Controller: Record Keeper: Progress Chase:

Dal Mang Charlie Escandon Jalen Garner Dely Roblero-Morales

Responsible in Keeping up with Records all Makes sure that

keeping up with all assignments. important everything is
the team. Making Making sure information. getting done.
sure everything is everything is Preserves Keeps the team up
going as plan and turned in and information that to date with
checking on team having all will be useful necessary
members required information
documents

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Team G.R.E.A.T.
Mission
“To encourage students’ learning by
empowering them to succeed through
guidance.”
Catalyst Coalition
• Non-profit
organization
• Focus on helping
children’s literacy
• Helps immigrant
families
• Offers several
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 Problem
• Low literacy rate in immigrant community
• Parents do not have the leisure time to
help their kids
• Many immigrant parents don’t see the
importance of higher education

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 Our task
• Identify ways to recruit immigrant
families to join eBookBuddy
• Develop ways to continue engaging
families in eBookBuddy program

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 Goals
• Create a solution to recruit immigrant
families to join eBookBuddy
• Develop ways to communicate with
immigrant families
• Find methods to help the parents keep
their students engaged
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 Stakeholders
▸ Parents
▸ Students (K-3)
▸ High school
volunteers
▸ Schools/Libraries

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 Solutions
Partnership with Schools
• To learn what kids in K-3
are specifically struggling
with
• To get more teenagers to
volunteer with the
program through the
partner school
Engagement of
students/parents
• Have a bi-weekly check
in with parents
• Have monthly
competitions
 Research
According to our research:
Partnerships with schools are very beneficial
• Focus on certain things that the school does not 
• Students(K-3) are getting the specific help that they
need 
• Promote organization through schools/libraries by
placing logo/naming on documents, banners etc.
(recognition increases)

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 Business Tool – Bains Pyramid 
▸ Helps identify
customer values 
▸ Identified 30
elements of values 
▸ Four categories
▹ Social Impact
▹ Life Changing
▹ Emotional
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▹ Functional 
 Bains Pyramid
Social: Self-transcendence
• Help others in need of
guidance

Life Changing:
Heirloom
• Solving on current
issues for better future
Emotional: Provide
Access 
• Access to programs and
people that are helpful Functional:
to the students Connect 
• Connection with
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 Business tool- SWOT Analysis
What is it?
SWOT Analysis is a business tool that allows
a business to further understanding the topic.

Four Categories: 
Strength
Weaknesses
Opportunity
Threats
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 SWOT Analysis
Strengths:  Weaknesses: 
• More reliable • Can restrict some of the ideas
• Gain Parents Trust • Requires funds
• Acknowledge subjects student are struggling • No/limited transportation
in
• Gain High Schoolers attention
• Competition keeps them engaged

Opportunities: Threats: 
• New opportunities for connections with • Students not interested
students • Lack of Communication
• Kids who went through the program when • Not enough funding
they were younger can come back and help • Transportation
the younger generation
• Create an club

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 “Education is the most
powerful weapon
which you can use to
change the world." 
- Nelson Mandela
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 Quote connection to eBookBuddy
Main idea: To gain knowledge and change the world

• Explains that knowledge will change the world for the bette

For example,
• eBookBuddy helps immigrant families (K-3) received
education so they can increase levels of literacy in Gwinnet
County.
• eBookBuddy students can come back and help the next
generation of K-3 families.
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 Thank you!
Any questions?

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 Citatio
n
• https://librarysciencedegree.usc.edu/blog/what-is-the-mmlis-degree-co
py-copy-copy/
 

• https://ecommons.aku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1015&context=li
braries#:~:text=Partnerships%20can%20provide%20many%20new
 

• https://www.expandinglearning.org/expandingminds/article/school-com
munity-learning-partnerships-essential-expanded-learning-success
 
• https://edlanta.org/2017/11/3-reasons-businesses-partner-schools/ 

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