Oct 7/2016
This class was the final class for our RFP discussions. As a class, we needed to finalize our RFP and get it out into the community so that various charities had a chance to submit their application. In our previous class, we had agreed upon the topic, yet we still had a lot of ground to cover before the RFP was finalized. We took an “old-school” whiteboard approach to this. Professor Fergusson had two white boards and a list of criteria on post-it notes, two student volunteers (one being yours truly) took to the board and created their ideal criteria. Fortunately, the criteria were similar and the end result was a choice between an organization based, or program based RFP. After much discussion and a class vote, it was determined that the best approach was to go for an organization based RFP. This had two key reasons; first, supporting an organization entailed supporting its programming; as such, it was a way too encompass both RFPs. Second, by supporting an organization we can also allow for some of the funding to go towards overhead; which we learned is an important aspect for the growth and sustainability of charities, which unfortunately has a negative connotation due to how we view charities. By the end of class, we had created and finalized an RFP that we could all agree upon, and it was released into the community later that day.
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