Browsing by Author "Friedman, Sarah"

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    CapitolRiver District Council: Wayfinding Program Evaluation Plan
    (Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2020) Friedman, Sarah; Stekr, Delaney; Cofer, Kobey; Ritten, Sarah
    This project was completed as part of a partnership between CapitolRiver District Council and the University of Minnesota’s Resilient Communities Project (http://www.rcp.umn.edu). The goal of this project was to identify how wayfinding in Downtown Saint Paul can be enhanced to contribute to vibrant and connected communities, activated streetscapes, and economic resilience. CapitolRiver District Council project lead Jon Fure collaborated with students in Professor Emily Kalnicky’s course, PA 5311: Program Evaluation, to create an evaluation plan that assesses how City of St. Paul zoning codes and ordinances impact the current wayfinding system, and identifies legislative opportunities CRC could advocate for to improve wayfinding. A final student report and presentation are available. A videorecording of the students' final presentation is also available at https://vimeo.com/493483306.
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    Recruiting and Retaining Diverse Volunteers During and after a Pandemic: How to recruit online volunteers
    (2021-05) Friedman, Sarah
    This project provides five analyses and the creation of a task force to help ensure Farmlink’s future in volunteer recruitment. First, through surveying current volunteers, this project obtains information on the demographic characteristics of Farmlink’s volunteers to identify underrepresented demographic groups; it also assesses the proportion of volunteers currently taking a gap year or taking classes pass fail, to assess how changes in school responsibilities might affect future volunteer commitment. Second, this project performs a literature search of previous studies on volunteer retention to identify the factors that motivate volunteers. Third, this project asks volunteers who work directly on volunteer recruitment to analyze the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities for growth, and potential threats (SWOT analysis) to Farmlink’s success to further recruitment and retention of volunteers. Fourth, this project performs a landscape analysis comparing Farmlink to six other similar nonprofits. Fifth, this project interviews volunteer recruiters from each of the earlier identified organizations to collect volunteer recruitment strategies. Finally, a volunteer task force was created to implement the findings of the above analyses with a focus on how volunteers may be compensated for their work via universities and government funding, or via school credit.