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Assignment: Canines for Disabled Kids Fundraising Project Paper
Weekly Progress Report Guidelines
A major component of this competency is your work with a nonprofit partner. Most of the major work of this competency feeds into and revolves around this project. This is your job for the course. You're indispensable. People are depending on you to show up and put forth. This isn't the sort of thing that you can put off until the last minute.
But human nature being what it is, despite our good intentions, the immediate crisis-the assignment due tomorrow, the work due at week's end-tends to get more of our attention than the project that's due at the end of the competency. The end of the competency can seem light years away at the competency's start.
The project is actually a process, however. Your learning and success will come, not just from your final product, but also from how you managed the process. So you really have a series of deadlines throughout the term: one each week. There are several reasons for this, among them: Weekly deadlines will help you stay focused and spur you to continual thought and progress. They'll help you discover problematic aspects early on and help you correct them before they become major. They'll help keep you from going off the rails.
So each week, it's a good idea to do a progress update
A. What your project is-remind us.
B. Why does it matter? Who is it going to help? How is it going to help?[2]
C. What's happened since your last update? How much time have you put in? Doing what?
D. What do you have left to do? When will you have it done? Particularly emphasize what you'll do by your next report (next week). But include all remaining components and your timeframe for completing them. Do the best you can planning.[3]
E. Share your successes and disappointments, hopes and fears. Everything will not turn out splendidly. That's OK. We learn from that, too-sometimes even more than from instantaneous success. Something is only a failure if we allow it to defeat us--and do not grow and learn.
F. What lessons have you learned?
G. How will you build on your experiences to date, learn from what's going on at this time and adapt?