Advocacy Project Plan

• Issue: Fundraise for Penn State’s closest Planned Parenthood
  • To ensure that students can access these services if needed
• Medium: website, GoFundMe, meeting that will be hosted by us (this will educate about the services available and be an incentive to donate)
• Audience: University Park students
  • Will most likely be females, transgender, non-binary students

 

Dates to Plan

1. 1. April 2nd: Make a reservation for a room to be used for the meeting 

• Fiona

1. 1. April 4th: Group meeting
   2. April 6th: Have research on the services being offered by Planned Parenthood

• Jaxon

1. 1. April 6th: Have research on which services will be more of a necessity for PSU students

• Jaxon

1. 1. April 8th: Create a GoFundMe

• Mustapha

1. 1. April 8th: Create a website

• Fiona

1. 1. Create GroupMe that will take people’s interest in the meeting to estimate attendance

• Fiona

1. 1. April 9th-10th: Create the flyers (with the GoFundMe QR, plus GroupMe)

• Every person will split the work (creating the QR code and designing the poster)

1. 1. April 11th: Group meeting (more meetings over zoom or in-person will be figured out)
   2. April 11th-18th: Start to advertise the GoFundMe and the meeting (hang up posters on public bulletins and others, social media, etc.) 

• All

1. 1. April 13th: Make the presentation slides for the meeting

• Every person (we will meet beforehand and create them together)

1. 1. April 13th: Start practicing the presentation for meeting

• Everyone

1. 1. April 18th: Host the meeting in the rented room

• Everyone

1. 1. April 19th-20th: Start creating the class presentation (add if needed)

• Everyone

1. 1. April 22nd: Donate the funds raised to our closest Planned Parenthood area (if we get more funds we can donate after the 22nd)

• Fiona

1. April 22nd- everything needed should be done
2. April 25- submit everything (Presentations start)
3. April 27th- Presentations

 

Likely to Go Wrong

• A worry would be that we do not have enough outreach to the students a t Penn State
  • Contingency: with the GroupMe and GoFundMe to estimate the outreach, we can reach out to people we know (friends and orgs) to advertise through social media and oral
  • April 15th
• Not enough attendance at the meeting
  • Contingency: estimation through GroupMe will help us know, we will keep the website and GoFundMe up and still advertise it personally throughout the semester
    • The website will have educational factors
      • We will have information about Planned Parenthood and services that they can access
      • April 15th-25th
• We might not have enough funds 
  • Contingency: we will keep the GoFundMe up after the class presentation, including the website
  • April 18th-22nd

 

Limits to Effectiveness 

• The Topic
  • Even though this topic is very important, Planned Parenthood is also very controversial
  • We will focus on the audience most likely to be interested in it because we are advertising around campus
• Fundraising
  • Some people might not want to donate
  • We are using social media to reach out to every demographic, including those who are willing to donate