Group Work Ideas!

For the third and last project of this semester, I would like to really focus on supporting some types of nonprofit organizations in Chicago. There are several in the city and as it has been mentioned before, no one really thinks about the importance that these organizations bring into our society. For instance, I work at Carson Pirie Scott and they do an event twice every year to help these nonprofit organizations that help abandoned children and also those that are against the abuse of women. Twice every year, Carsons hosts an even called Community Day. In fact, this weekend the store was packed with customers supporting the event. The event involved of selling a booklet with coupons for customers to do their shopping and the money they gave towards the booklets where donations for nonprofit organizations. However, even though the store does this even, they do not really stress the importance to the customers of helping someone. That is why these booklet sales do not always go that great. Prior to this weekend the store sold only about $2500 dollars worth of booklets, but this sale has been going on for about two months and it could have been a lot more money if the store did more advertisement explaining the importance to help these organizations trying to help women and children. Even though during the event the sales of the booklets grew, it would have been a lot better if prior to the event the sales where much more.  I think one way that would be really helpful that Carsons didn't do is send out fliers, brochures, posters, anything that catches the publics attention in order to stress the importance of helping out an organization in need. When it comes to the roles, as explained before, I'm more of a supporter and facilitator rather than a leader because I really wouldn't like to make any mistakes when doing this project.