Karina+Gomez+Proposal

Your proposal should contain the following elements:

 * 1) Your Name and place of work (diocese, school, parish...)
 * 2) Title of Project
 * 3) Project description
 * 4) Project goals
 * 5) Technology to be used
 * 6) Audience description
 * 7) Projected timeline (break-down of the two month implementation
 * 8) Administrative Approval

== Please post your proposal below. Your Proposal Due Date is September 29, 2016. ==

 kgomez@sbdiocese.org
 *  DDBC 2016: CAPSTONE PROJECT **
 * Project Contact: ** Karina Gomez


 * Project Title: **Our Lady of Guadalupe Catechists Monthly Newsletter


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Project Description: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">As an active catechist from Our Lady of Guadalupe, Chino, I have noticed the need of an effective mean of communication with the catechists to keep them informed about the parochial activities and diocesan opportunities to grow in their faith. Despite the efforts of the Director of Catechetical Ministry to meet in person with all the catechists, many of them are not able to attend this meetings due to their different schedules and do not receive all the information.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">My project is to create a monthly bilingual newsletter with parochial activities, diocesan faith formation opportunities, reflections, and seasonal resources that can be included in their catechetical sessions. For this project, I’ll use the MailChimp email marketing platform to deliver the newsletter once a month. This newsletter will keep catechists informed, they will be able to read it in their own time, print, save and share with others thorough email or social media.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Project Goals: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">- Create an account with MailChimp following diocesan and parochial guidelines to keep catechists informed about events and faith formation opportunities. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">- Present the plan to the parochial Director of Catechetical Ministry and catechists from the parish using a PowerPoint. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">- Request each catechist’s email address and their consent to receive the monthly newsletter. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">- Invite catechists to evaluate the newsletter and participate by giving suggestions on what they would like to see.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Audience: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The immediate audience for this project would be the catechists, (original recipients of the newsletter), and in their turn other adults who wish to be informed about the parochial events and would like to become catechists.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Timeline: **


 * //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">10/5/2016 //**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Request Pastor’s approval.


 * //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">10/10/2016 //**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Create an email account for the only use of this project. (In the future, someone else can contribute to the design of this newsletter). And create an account with MailChimp to begin the design of the components of the first newsletter.


 * //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">10/13/2016 //**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Meet with the Director of Catechetical Ministry to discuss the information that he wishes to include in the first newsletter and for his approval of the request of email addresses to the catechists for this purpose. Plan together a meeting with the catechists to present the plan.


 * //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">10/20/2016 //**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Design the first newsletter and add all the catechists’ (subscribers) email addresses.


 * //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">11/1/2016 //**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Send the first newsletter.


 * //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">11/10/2016 //**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Evaluate the catechists experience, continue adding subscribers and promote the use of this newsletter in social media and printed bulletins.


 * //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">11/17/2016 //**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Meet with the Director of Catechetical Ministry to share the results of the first letter, make the necessary upgrades and gather the information for the next newsletter.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Technology Tools: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">- Email <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">- MailChimp <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">- Power Point <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">- Social Media


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Budget: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The cost is minimum since the email and MailChimp accounts are free. The cost of printed bulletins that promote the newsletter will be covered by the budget of religious ministry.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Approval: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Pastor’s approval is required according to Diocesan Policies. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Director of Catechetical Ministry has consent this plan.