*<span style="font-size: 14.3999996185303px;">Purpose: </span><span id="docs-internal-guid-bde93449-3302-edf6-b6e3-873ba06faa85"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By initiating a crowdfunding platform on our campus we could greatly expand what innovation and entrepreneurship looks like. This platform would be similar to the Kickstarter app in the sense that students would show their ideas using some form of video. Viewers (community members, Elon faculty, Elon students, Elon professors, community business leaders, etc.) could then watch the video and decide whether or not the idea is one in which they would like to invest in. Not only does this platform appeal to the startup mindset of many students, but it is an extremely efficient way of connecting students who have great ideas to individuals with funds.</span></span>
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<li><span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-bde93449-330e-99c7-0d25-b997140c7f45"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Meet with professors and students to see if this is something students would use. Student survey.</span></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: larger;">'''Student Priority #2: Weekly I&E Focused Forum '''</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap;">Consult With and Work on Sustainability of Current I&E Organization</span>''' '''
*<span style="font-size: 14.3999996185303px;">Purpose: </span><span id="docs-internal-guid-bde93449-33033318-497a7830-9c408d94-c238aaef0c9f83a863a923b8"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Professors Fortunately, Elon has a lot of programs and organizations that encourages students to express their innovative ideas and how they can come from different backgrounds explore I& criterias. This event will hopefully ignite E; however, many of these have either died out within the fire past couple years, have a lack of leadership or have needed a good push in students the right direction. As UIF members we seek to want to continue with an idea that they’ve had for yearsbuild these programs and organizations back up.</span></span>
<span style="font-size: larger;">''''''</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span> *<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategies:</span>
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<li><span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-bde93449-33123315-0b559f3c-4ba2adac-889ef9fcb2fd993a1fe2b38b"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Secure a space to host these speakersIdentify organizations at Elon that work on I&E.</forums. Right now our goal would be to host this is the Entrepreneurship Living Learning Community.span></span></span></li><li><span><span style="font-size: 15pxmedium; font"><span id="docs-internal-guid-bde93449-3315-9f3c-adac-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); 993a1fe2b38b"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Evaluate their current state and future sustainability.</span></span><br/></span id="docs-internal-guid-bde93449-3312-3198-6612-c6d35d3cbef9"></li><li><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51)medium; "><span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reach out to and secure speakers for the first semester of operations.</span></span></li><li><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.15; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">Connect with other organizations Create a list of ways to increase their impact and sustainability on campus to help bring in speakers in and build funding if needed.</span></span></li><li><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.15; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15pxmedium;"></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-bde93449-33123315-6d749f3c-3fe5adac-ffff11cb2594993a1fe2b38b"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Create a strategic marketing strategy to bring students to these forumsHelp them build stronger leadership teams by connecting them with different resources within the university.</span></span></span></li><li><span><span style="font-size: 15pxmedium; font"><span id="docs-internal-guid-bde93449-3315-9f3c-adac-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); 993a1fe2b38b"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Connect these different organizations with one another to build their recognition on campus.</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-bde93449-33123315-86459f3c-ae54adac-d18d29c88bbf993a1fe2b38b"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Invite classes Connect these organizations more closely with different resources at the school to join in improve their impact on these experiences campus and add ability to the conversation.sustain students</span></span></span></li><li><span style="whitefont-spacesize: premedium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-bde93449-3315-9f3c-adac-wrap; line993a1fe2b38b"><span style="vertical-heightalign: 1.15baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); fontwhite-familyspace: Arial; fontpre-size: 15pxwrap;">Record all Connect these organizations with different resources outside of the speakers and post school that might be helpful for them to a blog or website.</span></span></span></li><li><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.15; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15pxmedium;">Reach out to individuals in the community that would be willing to fund or endow the program.</span></li><liid="docs-internal-guid-bde93449-3315-9f3c-adac-993a1fe2b38b"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.15; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">Build the sustainability Create a group of the program with speakers that come back each year presidents and an organization UIF leaders that leads meets once a semester to discuss the program.current state of I&E</span></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: larger;">'''''' '''Student Priorty #3: Work witwith current Elon TEDx Cooordinators'''</span>'''h current Elon TEDx coordinators'''
*<span style="font-size: 14.3999996185303px;">Purpose: </span><span id="docs-internal-guid-bde93449-3315-1e77-0256-c587f9caa6a9"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Professors to express their innovative ideas and how they can come from different backgrounds & criterias. This event will hopefully ignite the fire in students to want to continue with an idea that they’ve had for years.</span></span>
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*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">Strategies:</span></span><ol style="margin-left: 80px;"><li><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.15;">Contact person in charge of events to plan logistics. (3/6)</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span>Send out email to professors about event seeing who is interested. (3/13)</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-bde93449-3319-0faf-6343-e0e42d1546d9"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Meet with interested professors to discuss talking points. (3/16-3/20)</span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-bde93449-3319-0faf-6343-e0e42d1546d9"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Construct publicity & advertising tactics for event. (3/20)</span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-bde93449-3319-0faf-6343-e0e42d1546d9"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mass publicize event to student body. (3/22-23/27)</span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-bde93449-3319-0faf-6343-e0e42d1546d9"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Host event while also publicizing Elon’s University Innovation Fellows to student body. (Date is TBA)</span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-bde93449-3319-0faf-6343-e0e42d1546d9"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Send thank you cards to speakers to hopefully gain a connection with them and gain support. (Date is TBA)</span></span><br/></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span>Very ambitious but try and get 1,000 Pitches to come to one of the events.</span></span></span></li></ol> <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span>________________________________________________________________________________________</span></span></span> <span style="font-size: larger;">'''Student Priority #4: Work with on Sustainability of Current I&E Organizationsnbsp;'''</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap;">Elon Incubator Space</span>
*<span style="font-size: 14.3999996185303px;">Purpose: </span>