How do we reach the students?
One of our major community partners in our project was the Thomas Jefferson student body itself. If the students do not know that there will be breakfast served before the SAT, how will they know to come with enough time to spare? Our community partner Mike Christoff presented us with a creative solution that would ensure our message got to the student body: the weekly news broadcast. The Right Foot Project team members created this short, promotional video for the event.
Value of in-person conversations
In order to ensure that the faculty of TJHS were fully aware of how to promote the breakfast to their students and that our team was aware of what kind of environment we would be working in, our team made several trips to visit TJHS. We met in person with Mike Christoff to go over details and planning that can easily become miscommunicated over email. This was an integral aspect to our project as the staff were aware of who we were and were prepared to allow us into the building in order to begin set up around 6 am.
Piggy backing off of the importance of in-person conversations, zoom was an essential tool in the communication with our community partners. The Conscious Alliance is a large nonprofit organization, and because of this, it was hard to strategize a time for us to physically be able to come together. Our team had several zoom meetings with Dylan Goldberg, our contact at The Conscious Alliance, prior to establishing a plan with TJHS. When our original plan to bring TJHS to The Conscious Alliance did not work out, our team was able to meet with both Dylan Goldberg and program director Cathryn Folkestad over zoom to formulate and devise a new strategy.
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