GreyLit - "A Day in the Life " Videos using Doodly or other animated tools

PROJECT DESCRIPTION/DESCRIPTION DU PROJET: Our Why We can save lives, by changing the way research and information is shared. Our Beliefs We believe that all research matters. Insights and understandings can be gained from all types of research regardless of format, outcomes and processes. We believe that knowledge is power. Access to the right information at the right time, allows people to make decisions that will positively change lives. We believe that publishing doesn’t have to be painful. The technology exists that allows information to be shared, nearly instantly around the world in any format. Our Vision To have a positive impact on the world through the immediate access of research and information from around the globe. Our Mission To make front-line information accessible. Our Values These values indicate expected behaviour of Grey Lit team members in their daily contribution to fulfil our mission and vision. Violation of these values will result in dismissal. Integrity Passion Excellence Accessibility Innovation Communication Discipline Character Consistent Execution Our Culture We are a performance-oriented workplace with a culture that demands flawless operational execution by setting clear, ambitious, realistic goals with high standards of performance. The ability to use our values to turn great ideas and plans into consistently, well executed actions will be the true measure of our effectiveness as team members. Each member of the team commits to continuous innovation and a personal and professional rejection of mediocrity. We will hold each other 100% accountable for meeting standards and delivering on commitments. With visioning, communication and discipline we move quickly to get important things done. A deep respect for our processes and systems will drive us closer to closing the information access gap experienced by our customers To create a strong and trusting bond with our customers. By listening to what they want from us will allow us to provide consistent and superior customer service. This project will Take a story, and turn it into several, short animated videos. We have purchased a membership with Doodley and hope the student can take the narrative and create animated videos with it. The narrative describes "A day in the Life" of a Women's resource Centre, and all the crazy, emotional and important work that happens in a drop in centre. The goal will be have a set of videos we can show publicly, and to our stakeholders to let them how important our work is. KEY PROJECT ACTIVITIES/TÂCHES ASSOCIÉES AU PROJET: Re-write the narrative to create a script Create several short videos that reflect key events in the women's resource centre on an average day IDEAL ROLES/RESPONSIBILITIES/RÔLES/RESPONSABILITÉS:* Ideally - familiarity with Doodly or a similar animated tool in which they can create the videos The students will be able to take a narrative and write a script that can be used over the video FINAL PROJECT DELIVERABLES/LIVRABLES DU PROJET: 7-8 animated videos, max two minutes in length that describe a day in the life of a women's resource centre

GreyLit - Angel Investor Research

PROJECT DESCRIPTION/DESCRIPTION DU PROJET: [ Be sure to include details about your organization’s culture to sum up why a student would love to work with you/N’oubliez pas d’ajouter des détails sur la culture de votre organisation pour résumer pourquoi un étudiant voudrait collaborer avec vous.] Our Why We can save lives, by changing the way research and information is shared. Our Beliefs We believe that all research matters. Insights and understandings can be gained from all types of research regardless of format, outcomes and processes. We believe that knowledge is power. Access to the right information at the right time, allows people to make decisions that will positively change lives. We believe that publishing doesn’t have to be painful. The technology exists that allows information to be shared, nearly instantly around the world in any format. Our Vision To have a positive impact on the world through the immediate access of research and information from around the globe. Our Mission To make front-line information accessible. Our Values These values indicate expected behaviour of Grey Lit team members in their daily contribution to fulfil our mission and vision. Violation of these values will result in dismissal. Integrity Passion Excellence Accessibility Innovation Communication Discipline Character Consistent Execution Our Culture We are a performance-oriented workplace with a culture that demands flawless operational execution by setting clear, ambitious, realistic goals with high standards of performance. The ability to use our values to turn great ideas and plans into consistently, well executed actions will be the true measure of our effectiveness as team members. Each member of the team commits to continuous innovation and a personal and professional rejection of mediocrity. We will hold each other 100% accountable for meeting standards and delivering on commitments. With visioning, communication and discipline we move quickly to get important things done. A deep respect for our processes and systems will drive us closer to closing the information access gap experienced by our customers To create a strong and trusting bond with our customers. By listening to what they want from us will allow us to provide consistent and superior customer service. GreyLit is a late stage start-up that has been bootstrapped by the Founder. We are now looking for fuel. We are ready to bring on some Angel investment, and we know they are out there, we just need help finding them KEY PROJECT ACTIVITIES/TÂCHES ASSOCIÉES AU PROJET: Curate a list of possible Angel Investors or VC groups that fit our industry Prepare criteria to judge the Angels Prepare an investor package IDEAL ROLES/RESPONSIBILITIES/RÔLES/RESPONSABILITÉS:* Please note appropriate projects can accommodate most students, regardless of field of study or experience. We may not be able to fill these roles exactly. Veuillez noter que les projets appropriés peuvent accueillir la plupart des étudiants, quel que soit leur domaine d'études ou leur expérience. Nous ne pourrons peut-être pas remplir ces rôles exactement. This project is for those who want to play in the start-up entrepreneurial space. Finding investors is a hard core Founder, and start up task. This is an opportunity to participate in this pivotal moment. So the ideal person for this project is a first class Google and Linked In sleuth. This person will be magic when it comes to finding contact details, and background information FINAL PROJECT DELIVERABLES/LIVRABLES DU PROJET: A list of relevant and possible Angel/ VC groups A package is sent out to each of these possibilities.

GreyLit - Drafting Not for Profit By Laws

PROJECT DESCRIPTION/DESCRIPTION DU PROJET: Grey Lit is a knowledge mobilization platform that increases access to front-line research and information by allowing members to publish and share their work while nearly instantaneously searching for and reviewing the research of their "True Peers" around the world. GreyLit helps people turn information into action months or years sooner. Our Why We can save lives, by changing the way research and information is shared. Our Beliefs We believe that all research matters. Insights and understandings can be gained from all types of research regardless of format, outcomes and processes. We believe that knowledge is power. Access to the right information at the right time, allows people to make decisions that will positively change lives. We believe that publishing doesn’t have to be painful. The technology exists that allows information to be shared, nearly instantly around the world in any format. Our Vision To have a positive impact on the world through the immediate access of research and information from around the globe. Our Mission To make front-line information accessible. Our Values These values indicate expected behaviour of Grey Lit team members in their daily contribution to fulfil our mission and vision. Violation of these values will result in dismissal. Integrity Passion Excellence Accessibility Innovation Communication Discipline Character Consistent Execution Our Culture We are a performance-oriented workplace with a culture that demands flawless operational execution by setting clear, ambitious, realistic goals with high standards of performance. The ability to use our values to turn great ideas and plans into consistently, well executed actions will be the true measure of our effectiveness as team members. Each member of the team commits to continuous innovation and a personal and professional rejection of mediocrity. We will hold each other 100% accountable for meeting standards and delivering on commitments. With visioning, communication and discipline we move quickly to get important things done. A deep respect for our processes and systems will drive us closer to closing the information access gap experienced by our customers To create a strong and trusting bond with our customers. By listening to what they want from us will allow us to provide consistent and superior customer service. This project will Provide one of our key customers with a draft set of bylaws that are appropriate for a not for profit advocacy group. KEY PROJECT ACTIVITIES/TÂCHES ASSOCIÉES AU PROJET: Research other local not for profits within Nova Scotia and elsewhere in Canada, to see what governance documents they have in place Using examples found in the research, draft a set that one of our customers can use IDEAL ROLES/RESPONSIBILITIES/RÔLES/RESPONSABILITÉS:* This project is perfect for someone who would like to work in the not for profit space Ideally the student loves internet research and someone who can amend a document to fit another purpose. FINAL PROJECT DELIVERABLES/LIVRABLES DU PROJET: A draft set of bylaws that are appropriate for a not for profit in Nova Scotia

GreyLit - Marketing through Research, Writing + Planning

PROJECT DESCRIPTION/DESCRIPTION DU PROJET: Our Why We can save lives, by changing the way research and information is shared. Our Beliefs We believe that all research matters. Insights and understandings can be gained from all types of research regardless of format, outcomes and processes. We believe that knowledge is power. Access to the right information at the right time, allows people to make decisions that will positively change lives. We believe that publishing doesn’t have to be painful. The technology exists that allows information to be shared, nearly instantly around the world in any format. Our Vision To have a positive impact on the world through the immediate access of research and information from around the globe. Our Mission To make front-line information accessible. Our Values These values indicate expected behaviour of Grey Lit team members in their daily contribution to fulfil our mission and vision. Violation of these values will result in dismissal. Integrity Passion Excellence Accessibility Innovation Communication Discipline Character Consistent Execution This project will 1-Help our customers find content that is relevant to their decision making and their programming. We have 3 customers that need a lit review completed, and the articles need to be uploaded into their knowledge mobilization portal. 2-help a customer raise awareness about gender equity and gender equality as they raise their collective voice for change by researching and writing about 30 blogs that are thought provoking, calls to action based on selected "Awareness days" ex Take Back The Night and Orange Shirt day. And to write short, single, introductory paragraphs on about 75 days of awareness. 3- launch 3 new products under the GreyLit umbrella! It is an exciting time to be part of our start-up, as we are ready to sell these new products for the first time! This project will allow the students to flex any and all of their marketing muscle and know how. With full training and education around the products and the pain they will solve, students will have the opportunity to lead the market entry of new product, including crafting ads, writing website copy, and everything in between. This will make an excellent story to tell during an interview! KEY PROJECT ACTIVITIES/TÂCHES ASSOCIÉES AU PROJET: Conduct lit reviews for 3 different customers, results into the GreyLit portal Write about 30 blogs on specific days of awareness Create short one paragraph blurbs on about 75 awareness days Upload all the work into Word Press Create marketing and sales copy that will introduce the new products to our customers Create a marketing plan for these products that can include but not be limited to ads, "cold" email text, social media posts etc IDEAL ROLES/RESPONSIBILITIES ARE SOMEONE WHO: loves wordsmithing, will hunt for the perfect word or phase that describes our products. The introduction of these products to the market are your sole responsibility, no one has done it before, and this should excite not terrify. Will be responsible for writing content for our website, any ads, posts, and creating an images to go along with it thinks creating a marketing plan is fun is a google search ninja and can find research outside traditional academic journals is upset by gender inequality and is passionate about making change likes to edit their own work, as we need the material to be grammatically correct and typo free FINAL DELIVERABLES 3 Marketing plans, one for each product 3 sets of marketing material, for each of the products. At least 100 relevant articles are found for each customer, 300 in total, articles are uploaded into the GreyLit portal Blogs and Days of Awareness intro paragraphs are error free and ready to publish.