INTERNAL FACTORS STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES 1. Communication skills 2. Critical thinking skills; 3. Respect for diversity; 4. Professional, social, and ethical responsibility; 5. Lifelong learning practices 1. Communication skills; 2. Critical thinking skills; 3. Respect for diversity; 4. Professional, social, and ethical responsibility; 5. Lifelong learning practices EXTERNAL FACTORS OPPORTUNITIES THREATS 1. Communication skills; 2. Critical thinking skills; 3. Respect for diversity; 4. Professional, social, and ethical responsibility; 5. Lifelong learning practices 1. Communication skills; 2. Critical thinking skills; 3. Respect for diversity; 4. Professional, social, and ethical responsibility; 5. Lifelong learning practices 1. A brief narrative describing each defined trait. EXAMPLE: Communication skills Communication is about more than just exchanging information. It's about understanding the emotion and intentions behind the information. Effective communication is also a two-way street. It’s not only how you convey a message so that it is received and understood by someone in exactly the way you intended, it’s also how you listen to gain the full meaning of what’s being said and to make the other person feel heard and understood. Preparing for the Final Project: Outlining Your Goals, Intentions, and Approach Outlining Your Goals, Intentions, and Approach If you haven’t done so recently, review the “Preview of Your Final Project” criteria sheet. For this assignment, provide an outline with your goals, intentions, and approach for your Final Project. Identify the role of the Community Organization for your project. You should utilize all the information that you collected since the beginning of this course. Please feel free to use any type of outline you would like, but keep in mind, you will need to cover the information below with consistency, continuity, and originality. Because this is an outline, you will have the opportunity to make changes to this as you progress through the project, but the more you can “nail down” here, the more you will be able to stay focused moving forward. Note: If you use any resources in your outline, cite the publication(s), any direct quotations, and any summarized or paraphrased material. Use APA citation format for both your in-text and references page citations. Keep in mind, any sources you choose should be no more than five (5) years old. This is part of the requirements for your Final Project. · Title Your Project: Be concise; be catchy. Use your title to both draw your readers/audience in and to demonstrate what the project is about. Try to keep your titles within five or fewer words. · Introduction: Describe the organization, the work they do, any key players within the organization, and why it may be interesting to your readers/audience. Include your thesis statement.

1. INTERNAL FACTORS
STRENGTHS
WEAKNESSES
1. Communication skills
2. Critical thinking skills;
3. Respect for diversity;
4. Professional, social, and ethical responsibility;
5. Lifelong learning practices
1. Communication skills;

2. 2. Critical thinking skills;
3. Respect for diversity;
4. Professional, social, and ethical responsibility;
5. Lifelong learning practices
EXTERNAL FACTORS
OPPORTUNITIES
THREATS
1. Communication skills;
2. Critical thinking skills;

3. 3. Respect for diversity;
4. Professional, social, and ethical responsibility;
5. Lifelong learning practices

4. 1. Communication skills;
2. Critical thinking skills;
3. Respect for diversity;
4. Professional, social, and ethical responsibility;

5. 5. Lifelong learning practices
1. A brief narrative describing each defined trait.
EXAMPLE:
Communication skills
Communication is about more than just exchanging information.
It's about understanding the emotion and intentions behind the
information. Effective communication is also a two-way street.
It’s not only how you convey a message so that it is received
and understood by someone in exactly the way you intended,
it’s also how you listen to gain the full meaning of what’s being
said and to make the other person feel heard and understood.
Preparing for the Final Project: Outlining Your Goals,
Intentions, and Approach
Outlining Your Goals, Intentions, and Approach
If you haven’t done so recently, review the “Preview of Your
Final Project” criteria sheet. For this assignment, provide an
outline with your goals, intentions, and approach for your Final
Project.
Identify the role of the Community Organization for your
project. You should utilize all the information that you
collected since the beginning of this course.
Please feel free to use any type of outline you would like, but
keep in mind, you will need to cover the information below with
consistency, continuity, and originality. Because this is an
outline, you will have the opportunity to make changes to this
as you progress through the project, but the more you can “nail

6. down” here, the more you will be able to stay focused moving
forward.
Note: If you use any resources in your outline, cite the
publication(s), any direct quotations, and any summarized or
paraphrased material. Use APA citation format for both your in-
text and references page citations.
Keep in mind, any sources you choose should be no more than
five (5) years old. This is part of the requirements for your
Final Project.
· Title Your Project: Be concise; be catchy. Use your title to
both draw your readers/audience in and to demonstrate what the
project is about. Try to keep your titles within five or fewer
words.
· Introduction: Describe the organization, the work they do, any
key players within the organization, and why it may be
interesting to your readers/audience. Include your thesis
statement (a short description of the purpose of your work).
· Readers/Audience: Describe the readers/audience you will be
directing your project toward. Consider what they know, what
they might need from your work, and what they will expect.
Briefly discuss how you will meet the needs of your
readers/audience.
· Methods: Include a description of how you plan to gather and
analyze your data (i.e. reviewing websites, reviewing related
articles, interviews, analyzing similar organizations, and so on).
· Results: You likely haven’t found any results yet, but provide
a description of what you hope to find or what you think you
might find.
· Conclusion: Based on the information you have gathered so
far, start identifying how what you’ve learned connects to your
thesis and how it falls under the scope of service-learning and
civic engagement. Write up a brief description of those
connections.
References Page: Include an APA style citation list of any
sources you have used or are considering using in your project
(this should appear on its own page at the end of your outline).

7. Researching Community Partnerships
Review the “Preview of Your Final Project” criteria sheet to
help you focus your work this week. Before engaging in your
research, make sure you have decided on the organization you
would like to research in this class so you can apply the work
you do this week to your final project.
*Note: As you gather your sources, make sure the ones you
choose are no more than five (5) years old. This is part of the
requirements for your Final Project.
Six-Article Annotated Bibliography
· Find and summarize the Grow, Hamm, & Lee’s “The Debate
over Doing Good” (in EBSCO).
· Use your key terms that you generated through your Wikipedia
search to search Grantham Library’s EBSCOhost and/or Google
Scholar to find at least five additional, reputable articles to
review as background information on community partnerships
and community organizations.
· Review each of the six articles you found and summarize them
based on the following criteria:
· The name of the author and article,
· The purpose of the article,
· The problem addressed,
· The population addressed, and,
· The results of the article.
Your review should include all six articles. You should provide
a 100-150 word paragraph for each source addressing the each
of the four key ideas in your summary. Each article should also
include a reference citation in APA format.
SAMPLE:
Remen, R. N. (1999 Jan.1). Helping, fixing or serving?
University ofCincinnati.Retrieved from:
https://www.uc.edu/content/dam/uc/honors/docs/communityenga
gement/HelpingFixingServing.pdf

8. In the article, “Helping, Fixing, or Serving” (1999), Remen
asserts that people see the world in three
different ways broken, weak or whole.
These viewpoints results in how a person connect to their world.
Remen views serving as a way to moves beyond the expertise
and incorporates both their serves strengthens as well as the
strengths of others.
Many times people seek to help or fix rather than service.
Remen uses examples of an emergency physician sees
delivering a baby as a service rather than fixing the problem.
She shares how a nurse moved past professional protocols to
serve her by removing her ileostomy. In these examples, she
explains how experiences shorten the distance between the
humans. Remen shows how serving rather than fixing or helping
benefits all parties and impacts humanity.