Weekly Blog Post 3

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

  1. What are we impacting?
  2. How are we impacting?
  3. Where/why are we impacting?
  4. What makes copra so important?
  5. How many lives can we impact?
  6. How will our work have an impact outside of the Philippines?
  7. What are the different ways we can have an impact?
  8. How do we make our impact sustainable?
  9. How do we quantify impact?
  10. Can we generate a negative impact as well?
  11. Will the people in the Philippines be open to our ideas?
  12. What we be the obstacles that prevent us from making an impact?
  13. How long until we are able to deliver impact?
  14. How will we adopt their cultural habits?
  15. What are people doing to create an impact now?
  16. Who are these people?
  17. How personal is the process to them?
  18. How do adjust our solution to their culture?
  19. How can we make people happy?
  20. How can we improve ourselves through this project?

Develop and Visualize the Theory of Change (Logic Model) for your venture.

Inputs Activities Output Outcomes
  • Money
  • Time
  • Knowledge
  • Expertise
  • Materials
  • Equipment
  • Partners
  • Research
  • Prototyping
  • Designing
  • Networking
  • Field work (visiting farms)
  • Educate
  • Propose Ideas
  • Consistency in quality of copra
  • Maximized use of the entire coconut
  • Value-added products from coconuts
  • Increased nutritional value in copra
  • Reduced coconut waste
  • Social venture focused on introducing and implementing sustainable, state-of-the-art copra processing methods to copra farmers
  • (Short term) – Knowledge and awareness of current drying processes and their shortcomings
  • (Intermediate) – Reduced used of popular sun-drying and smoke-drying methods
  • (Long term) – Elevate the livelihoods and increase income for copra farmers

– Clearly list all assumptions.

  • Assume our project will be successful
  • Assume we will finish the research by this spring semester
  • Assume that we will have a design/prototype by the end of the summer
  • Assume that we can collaborate well with the UPD partners 
  • Assume that we can interview copra farmers
  • Assume that we can adapt to a different culture and time zone
  • Assume that we have four potential pathways to address the problem

– Identify short-term and long-term success metrics.

Short term: Reduced inconsistency in copra quality (overall quality increase).

Long term: Economic growth. Increased income for copra farmers.

– (Optional) identify specific methods to measure the metrics.

  1. Design, energy efficiency, and sustainability of the processing technique
  2. Amount of high-quality copra that can be produced using new methods
  3. Amount of additional income that can be generated for copra farmers

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