After completing this assignment, you will be able to:
assessing the impact of their proposed solution to a service learning assignment on the
local environment. (GCP#1, MCOB).
their proposed solution to a service learning assignment and reflecting on the feedback
received. (GCP#2, MCOB).
others perspectives by managing a mission and vision creation process. (ERCE#3,
MCOB)
participation in a service-learning project (ERCE#4, MCOB).
(ERCE#6, MCOB)
Following are the requirements for this assignment:
The Service Learning Experience (SLE) requires you to provide service to a local non-profit
organization. The SLE is a five-part process that includes investigating service opportunities,
preparing for that opportunity through a preflection, planning your service intervention,
performing your service, and reflecting on the experience. As per the syllabus, the use of
generative AI tools is prohibited on this assignment.
Investigate various local service (non-profit) organizations and select one. Service
opportunities are available throughout the Tampa Bay region. Students must have the
service organization they select approved by their instructor.
You must volunteer at a service organization that can utilize your business expertise and
you must provide responses to a Preflection Paper. Your Preflection Paper should be 2-3
double-spaced pages in length and must address each of the following 8 question:
o What is service learning and social responsibility to you?
o Which service organization did you select, and who is your contact (Name, title,
address, and phone)?
o Why did you select this service organization?
o What needs within the community does the organization serve?
o What groups/individuals does the organization serve and what other
groups/individuals/communities could benefit from the types of services provided
by this organization?
o Does the organization have a mission and/or vision statement and if so what is it?
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o What specific business expertise do you anticipate contributing/developing within
the service organization?
o What do you think you might learn from this project?
Youll engage in meaningful and creative service that enhances learning and provides
guided practice in social responsibility by engaging with a local non-profit organization
of your choice that supports families, children, the disadvantaged, animals, the
environment, etc., for roughly fifteen (15) hours of documented service during the
semester. These documented hours can include on-site support, planning, meetings,
research, preparation, training, reflection, etc., however, at least twelve (12) of these
hours must be documented service hours. You must provide documentation of the service
hours in the appendix to your Reflection journal.
You must submit a 5-7 page Reflection Journal to Canvas under #GEA1 Service
Learning – Preflection and Reflection by the due date in the syllabus. This Journal
should also include your 2-3 page Preflection paper, the summary of your service hours,
and two pictures of you performing the service at your service organization in an
Appendix. Your Reflection should include what happened before, during, and after the
Service Learning Experience. Each student must address the 8 questions below.
o Initial Expectations: Describe your initial expectations relative to the reality of
the service learning experience.
o Disciplinary Skills to Apply: What specific disciplinary skills (i.e. skills learned
in your major) have you used at your community site?
o My Contribution: How did your contribution specifically supported the goals of
the service organization and/or allowed you to make a difference in the
community?
o New Vision and Mission: Based on the knowledge gained in your service
learning experience and concepts taught in this class (in Chapter 2) on developing
a mission and vision, draft a new and improved mission and vision statement for
the organization. You should include not only the new mission and vision but
also an appropriate rationale for the mission and vision including elements of the
organization as well as required elements needed in a well written mission and
vision statement.
o Share, Feedback, and Revision: Share the new mission and vision statement you
created with at least two other people capable of giving you feedback on the
soundness of your new mission and vision (fellow student, volunteer, or non-
profit employee, etc.). After getting feedback from the first person, revise the
mission and vision statements to accommodate the new ideas or suggestions. Do
this again with the second person. Document the feedback received and how you
revised the statements each time. In other words, you must complete two rounds
of sharing and revising your mission and vision statement. Make sure you explain
what advice you followed (and why) and what advice you felt didnt warrant
changes (and why).
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o Diversity Expansion: Based on your experience with the organization and in
drafting the vision and mission explain how you might recommend that the
organization expand the diversity of those it serves while achieving its mission.
Identify diverse constituencies that might benefit from the organizations services
or with whom it could collaborate to extend its mission.
o Ethical Dilemmas: Based on your service learning experience, what ethical
dilemmas do you think can arise in non-profit organizations?
o Ethical Leader Requirements: What is required to be a good ethical leader in a
non-profit organization?
You will present your Reflection Journal to a diverse group of individuals by creating and
submitting a 3-5 minute presentation of your Reflection Journal to Canvas under #GEA1
Presentation – Service Learning Presentation. The presentation will be scored for oral
communication for assessment purposes. Thus, at a minimum you should be clearly
visible during the entire presentation and the video and audio should be of a reasonable
quality. PowerPoint slides are optional in your video. The presentation should be a
minimum of 3 minutes and maximum of 5 minutes in length. Given this short time frame
you are really only going to be able to cover the highlights of your project. The nice
thing is that since you are submitting a video recording (versus presenting live in class or
online) you can have as many attempts as you want.
The entire project should be well-written, typed, and double spaced. You should also
include a title page and table of contents which does NOT count towards the page
requirements of the Report. Large amounts of copied or quoted material, project
guideline questions, and adjusting settings in Word (like line spacing, margins, font size
and/or type, word spacing, etc.) will also not count towards meeting the page
requirements. You should use the questions in the Preflection as headings to clearly
delineate your answers to each Preflection question. Similarly, you should use the 8
bolded 2 to 5 word headings from the above guidelines to clearly delineate the different
sections of your Reflection journal.
Based on the above guidelines, here is a recap of what is due for this assignment:
please note the share, get feedback, and revise loop that needs to be completed twice
I will set up submission links in Canvas for the project. Finally, please keep in mind that
this is still a relatively new assignment for everyone including me and that there may be
some hiccups along the way
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