Blog #4: Team Prompts– 

1. List the top 20 questions your team needs to answer to advance the venture forward. Categorize the questions if necessary. 

1. When is the heating season in Almaty?
2. Where are the power houses located?
3. What is the general map of the city?
4. Where are the main roads located?
5. Where are self-heating traditional houses mainly located?
6. Where are the schools located? 
7. When will we conduct the experiment?
8. How can we make our monitors and filters easily accessible?
9. How many participants do we need?
10. How will we analyze the data?
11. How can we convince citizens to take better precautions?
12. What is the best way to educate people about the effects of poor air quality?
13. What is the most effective way to make air monitors?
14. Can we persuade the government to make meaningful changes?
15. How much help can we anticipate from Kazak organizations?
16. What other potential partnerships can we form? 
17. Realistically, will we be able to improve the air quality? 
18. How to build sustainable and affordable air filters with local products?
19.  How to share the result of our experimental study?
20. Do we need funding? How can we get any?

2. Develop and Visualize the Theory of Change (Logic Model) for your venture. Please submit a crisp visual. 

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3. Develop a Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) plan for your venture. Identify short-term and long-term outcomes.

1. Metric of success: we are going to measure success through cognitive tests. The results of the tests will tell us if air quality has an effect on cognitive performance.
2. Short term: educate people on ways to keep protect themselves from poor air quality and create air monitors
3. Long term: infrastructural change and improved air quality will decrease the health issues associated with air pollution

1. Submit your matrix of research and venture goals for the Spring semester, Summer/Fieldwork, and Fall semester. 

Timetable:

1. Spring 2023
   1. Project goal
      1. Air monitor
         1. Learning to assemble monitors (new members)
         2. Assembling 20 air monitors and sending to Alma U for the quasi study
         3. Creating exterior design for the air monitors
      2. Air Filter
         1. Doing research on the design of affordable and insertable air filters
         2. Analyzing the old prototype we build last summer
         3. Listing and purchasing necessary materials for the filter
         4. Building the first air filter
         5. Creating an exterior design for the air filter
      3. Air monitor and air filter
         1. Testing the air monitor and filter at Lehigh before the Fieldwork and collecting data
            1. 3 weeks
            2. Open window; closed window; open window+air filter
         2. Improving the monitors and filters based on the test
      4. Assembly shop
         1. Doing research on establishing Assembly shop
         2. Finding local partners to collaborate on the Assembly Shop
      5. Social media
         1. Creating and developing social media account
   2. Research goal
      1. Quasi experimental study
         1. Getting CITI certificate
         2. Designing the method and the environment of the study
         3. Monthly online meeting with partners
         4. Writing research proposal
         5. Applying for the IRB
         6. Writing consent form (if needed) and translating the consent form
         7. Start collecting data through our local partners
      2. Last year’s study
         1. Conference in REEESNe
   3. Resources needed
      1. Air monitor parts for air monitor 
      2. The old air filter design to analyze
      3. The information of how our partners can cooperate with us on the study
      4. Testing location at Lehigh
      5. Local partners to collaborate on the Assembly Shop
2. Summer 2023
   1. Project goal
      1. Air monitor and filter
         1. Finding the necessary materials in local market
         2. Replicating the test at Lehigh in Almaty in shorter time period
            1. 3 days
            2. Open window; closed window; open window+filter
         3. Testing in multiple location to collect data
            1. Indoor; outdoor; downtown; outer area of the city
         4. Fixing the models based on the fieldwork testing
         5. Repeating the 3-week test at Lehigh
            1. 3 weeks
            2. Open window; closed window; open window+air filter
         6. Finalizing the design of the air monitors and air filters
      2. Assembly shop
         1. Finding local partners
         2. Establishing the agenda and the practices
         3. Setting up the Assembly shop
      3. Social media
         1. Informational posts about the consequences of air pollution
            1. Sharing the result of the study
         2. Promotional posts for monitors and filters
         3. Keep posting and updating the account with the process of the project and research
   2. Research goal
      1. Experimental study
         1. Exploring the social dimension and selecting another organization to conduct the study and to scale up our study
         2. Continue collecting data at AlmaU
         3. Finish collecting the data 
         4. Analyzing the data
         5. Writing a paper
         6. Applying for conferences
         7. Applying for publication
   3. Resources needed
      1. Airfare
      2. Funding for materials of monitors and filters
      3. Locations to test the monitor and filter
      4. Finding local partners for the Assembly shop project
      5. Assembly shop logistics
3. Fall 2023
   1. Project goal
      1. Air monitor and filter
         1. Participating in conferences to introduce our low-cost monitors and filters
      2. Assembly shop
         1. Training Assembly shop workers
         2. Starting the mass-assembly of monitors and filters
      3. Social media
         1. Promotional posts for monitors and filters and the Assembly shop
         2. Keep posting and updating the account with the process of the project and research
   2. Research goal
      1. Experimental study
         1. Participating in conferences to share the results of the study
         2. Formulating the next year’s study
   3. Resources needed
      1. Promotion of the products
      2. Funding for conference traveling

Identify the 10 toughest questions from the 14-page list, and answer them in advance of your presentations. 

1. What stops another business/nonprofit/social enterprise from offering identical products or services? 
2. What is your intellectual property strategy?
3. How will customers purchase your product? 
4. What kinds of human resources do you need?
5. Who manufactures it? Where do you manufacture it? How do you manufacture it? 
6. What kind of full-time staffing will you need?
7. How will you determine salaries / stipends?
8. What kind of perks and benefits will your employees expect? 
9. What kind of oversight and accountability mechanisms will you deploy?
10. What are the core costs incurred to operate the venture?

Write 3 elevator speeches about your project: 

• For a professor/advisor
  • Did you know that air quality in some parts of the world is so bad that you can see the particulate matter with your naked eye? We are part of an impact fellowship to help mitigate the effects that the poor air quality has on health. Our current goals right now are to collect data on how air quality affects cognitive ability and to build cost effective air monitors and filters. We would appreciate it if you shared your opinion and expertise with us and if you have any thoughts on further action we should take. 
• For an interviewer for a summer internship 
  • Through the Office of Creative Inquiry at Lehigh University, I am in a Global Social Impact Fellowship. My project is to help mitigate the effects that poor air quality in Almaty, Kazakhstan has on human health. My team consists of 4 other Lehigh students, a faculty advisor, and students from Almaty Management University. We are working together to build air monitors and filters and to collect data about the effects that air quality has on cognitive ability. This fellowship has taught me so much already about how to work with a team of people from diverse backgrounds and has made me feel prepared for this internship.
• For a roommate asking about your project
  • My project is working to help educate the citizens in Almaty, Kazakhstan about the effects of poor air quality on their health. We’re building air monitors and filters and conducting tests on them to see the different amounts of particulate matter in the air. We are also working with Almaty Management University to gather and analyze the effects that air quality has on cognitive ability. Follow our Instagram @aqalehigh to see updates about our project!

1. Refine the income statement for your venture.  

1. Refine the capital expenditure budget. 

1. Identify two SPECIFIC funding sources for the design phase of your project and two SPECIFIC funding sources for the dissemination (implementation / distribution / commercialization) phase of your project. For each funding source, explain why this is a good fit for your project, and what SPECIFIC aspect of your project might the funding source support. 
   1. NSF grant: It is a good fit because it focuses on the environment and sustainability. Our project is trying to find the most sustainable and cost effective way for citizens to protect themselves from the harmful effects of air pollution.
   2. SEAL grant: It is a good fit because we are trying to change the public’s understanding of the effects of air pollution. It could fund campaigns to spread awareness.
   3. REEESNe grant: It is a good fit because our target population is in former Soviet Union country and this grant is focused on projects implemented in those countries. 
2. Identify five specific partnerships that you need to forge to advance your project forward with the ultimate goal of positively impacting at least one million people. Describe exactly how that partnership might help you achieve scale and why that entity might be willing to work with you. 
   1. AlmaU: They are helping us conduct a study to show the effects of air pollution on cognitive ability.
   2. Haileybury: Participating in the study
   3. High schools in Almaty: First customers of the product
   4. Hospitals: can easily share information about preventative measures
   5. Almaty local government: Can easily share information on the effects of air pollution and how to combat it

1. Develop pessimistic, optimistic, and realistic sales / reach projections for your venture over two years (at six month intervals). 

2. Develop a detailed income statement for your venture for two years (at six month intervals). Explicitly state the assumptions that underlie your financial model.

3.  Develop a budget that captures all the non-recurring (one-time) expenses to get your venture up and running.

1. Refine your business models using the business model canvas. 
   1. Business Model Canvas
2. Refine your slides to articulate your business model.
   1. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14DYG_64ByBsKWHBiV7-UKb1nphhaj8vdwftXTNylwzc/edit#slide=id.g209e47bfe1c_0_134